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The Republican honeymoon is over on Capitol Hill.
A little more than a month after their party took full control of Congress, House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) are at odds over how to avoid shutting down the Department of Homeland Security amid a fight with President Obama over immigration reform.
For years, the GOP turmoil over how to handle their internal political and legislative differences has been confined to the House. But it is now spilling out across Capitol Hill after several weeks of careful coordination among Republicans that included passage of a bipartisan bill authorizing construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.
The impasse comes with only seven legislative days left on the calendar before funding for DHS expires. Republicans, bowing to conservative pressure, had insisted late last year on funding the department only through February hoping to gain leverage to counter Obamas use of executive authority to curtail deportations for many undocumented immigrants.
The House has passed a new spending plan that would repeal most of Obamas immigration decisions, but Senate Democrats have blocked it three times in recent days, leaving Republicans struggling to keep DHS open and avoid being blamed for forcing another partial government shutdown.
Its clear we cant go forward in the Senate, McConnell said Tuesday. He suggested the House might have to try again to write and pass a bill that would fund DHS and earn sufficient Democratic support to advance in the Senate, where Republicans have 54 seats but where 60 votes are needed for legislation to advance.
House Republicans strongly disagreed.
The pressure is on Senate Democrats who claim to oppose the presidents action but are filibustering a bill to stop it, said Michael Steel, a Boehner spokesman. Until there is some signal from those Senate Democrats what would break their filibuster, theres little point in additional House action.
Boehner and McConnell appeared briefly together on Tuesday but took no questions from reporters as they formally signed and sent the president legislation that passed overwhelmingly in recent days to help prevent military veterans suicides.
Their disagreement in strategy on DHS appeared to be trickling down to rank-and-file Republicans, who agreed that Democrats are at fault but disagreed on how the party should proceed.
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Gallup recently asked adults around the country a very simple question about immigration: Are you satisfied, or dissatisfied, with the level of immigration into the United States today? Are too many immigrants coming? Too few? Or is the number just about right?
Before giving the results, it's important to note what that number is. The U.S. awards legal permanent resident status a green card, which means lifetime residency plus the option of citizenship to about 1 million people per year, a rate Sen. Marco Rubio calls "the most generous" on Earth. In addition, the government hands out more than a half-million student and exchange visas each year, tens of thousands of refugee admissions, and about 700,000 visas to temporary workers and their families. The percentage of foreign-born people in the U.S. population is heading toward levels not seen since the period of 1890 to 1910.
So is that too much, or too little? Gallup found that 47 percent of Americans believe the level of immigration should stay where it is. Thirty-nine percent want to see it decreased. And just 7 percent want it increased. (The remaining 7 percent said they don't know.)
Put another way, 86 percent of Americans would like immigration into this country to remain at today's level or to decrease, versus 7 percent who want to see it increase.
"Americans wish to see current record immigration rates lowered, not raised," said the office of Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions, who has opposed comprehensive immigration reform measures on Capitol Hill. "Yet the president's 'Gang of Eight' immigration bill ... doubles the number of annual guest workers and triples the number of green cards over the next 10-year period."
Given public opinion, it shouldn't surprise anyone that the bill did not become law.
Gallup did not ask about immigrants who are already in the United States illegally. But a Wall Street Journal poll touched on that question just before the State of the Union speech, asking respondents which issues should be "an absolute priority for the Obama administration and this year's Congress." On the list was "passing immigration legislation that would create a pathway to U.S. citizenship for foreigners who are currently staying illegally in the United States." It ranked 12th out of 15 possible priorities, with just 39 percent calling it a must-do.
Another immigration-related option, passing reform "that would do more to secure our southern border with Mexico," ranked much higher, with 58 percent of respondents calling it an absolute priority.
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