GOP nearing end game on immigration votes

[brooklynite]

Source: The Hill

House Republicans left Washington for their 11-day Memorial Day recess without solving the vexing immigration issue that is dividing them just months before the midterm elections.

Yet the effort by GOP centrists to force immigration votes gained steam before Thursday’s exit, suggesting Republican leaders may soon be forced to address legislation protecting the so-called Dreamers, perhaps as early as next month.

Two more Republicans and six Democrats signed their name Thursday to a discharge petition, leaving supporters just five signatures short of being able to bypass Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and force a series of votes to protect hundreds of thousands of young, undocumented immigrants currently in the U.S.

That leaves Ryan and GOP leaders with a narrow window to negotiate an agreement between the party’s warring conservative and centrist factions over legislation to salvage the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which President Trump wants to dismantle.



Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/389295-gop-nearing-end-game-on-immigration-votes

[pazzyanne]

1. It burns my cookies

when tRump stands at his rallies and addresses DACA issues on television. He makes it all the Democrats fault, when he is the one who ended the program. He then turned down the offer of funding for his freaking border wall to keep DACA as a bargaining chip. I am beginning to believe that American citizens have become zombies with no reasoning ability. How do you fight that?

[beachbum bob]

2. the truth, GOP is nearing nothing at this moment except blowing themselves up

I gotta say, the tactics by democrats have been pretty smart. They know the responsibility is on the GOP and Trump to come thru on DACA outside of blackmailing for a wall to be built.

No way GOP survives going into Nov midterm elections without a promised solution. The democrats can say...a clean DACA bill is all they will accept in the House and in the Senate....