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WASHINGTON, May 20 (UPI) --Democratic Rep. Luis Gutirrez warned Republicans that they'd never see another member of their party occupy the White House unless they help pass immigration reform.

"Latino voters are a force that is growing faster than Republicans can withstand and are tilting more towards the Democrats with each day Republicans stand in the way of stopping deportations that are breaking up immigrant families," the Illinois congressman said on the House floor Tuesday.

Gutirrez accused the House majority leadership of bending to the will of a vocal minority in their party rather than advancing legislation a majority of voters support.

"Latino voters are repelled, and the loud but small contingent of immigration opponents have backed the Republican Party into a corner that they don't have the courage to break out of," he said

"So, Mr. Speaker, I give you George W. Bush, the man who will go down in history as the last Republican president in American history. Tom Donohue is right: There is a demographic reality that will make Republicans a footnote in history -- just like the Whigs and Know-Nothings -- unless they do something to get the immigration issue off the table."

Gutirrez was referring to comments from Donahue, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce president, last week, when he said Republicans wouldn't stand a chance in 2016 unless immigration reform passes Congress this year.

"If the Republicans don't do it, they shouldn't bother to run a candidate in 2016," Donohue said. "Think about that. Think about who the voters are. I just did that to get everybody's attention."

The Senate passed a comprehensive immigration reform bill last June, voting 68-32 on a bill that would create a path to citizenship while increasing border security.

As for the House, Gutirrez said action on legislation must go before the July 4 holiday if it were to stand any chance of passing this year, when campaigns and midterm skittishness would make passage of any meaningful legislation unlikely.

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Radio host Laura Ingraham and Americans for Tax Reform president Grover Norquist engaged in a heated exchange on immigration reform on Ingrahams show Tuesday.

At one point, Ingraham, a Fox News contributor, accused anti-tax advocate Norquist of whining over the discussion on the show. After Ingraham said allowing more immigrant workers to come into the U.S. would be obscene to the American experience, Norquist cut in.

Laura, do I get to talk, too? he asked.

Yes, you do. After you did your soliloquy on an issue that has no relevance to what we were talking about earlier, go ahead, the radio host replied, referring to an earlier discussion about the 2014 midterm elections.

OK, well the soliloquy was, when you guys called me, you said you wanted to talk about the role of the tea party in the elections

Oh my god, youre whining, youre whining. Go ahead, Ingraham said, interjecting.

Norquist appeared to take a veiled shot at Ingraham earlier in the segment, when he criticized anti-immigration advocates who overuse the term amnesty.

One of the reasons why the people for more restrictionist immigration policy dont make more progress when they do is they throw around amnesty in criticizing every single reform that were looking at, he said.

Ingraham, a fierce critic of immigration reform, has often used the phrase in her opposition to the legislation that passed the Senate. On Tuesday, she said that those in favor of reform want millions upon millions of new workers to come in to displace those already beleaguered American workers who are struggling in the economy.

For his part, Norquist said he was in favor of some elements of immigration reform, saying it would benefit the agriculture industry and would help grow the economy. He said he a supporter of the guest worker program implemented during the Eisenhower administration.

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Senate Democrats huddled with immigration advocates at the Capitol on Tuesday to rally them around a unified message: Train all your fire on House Republicans from now until August.

Until now, reform backers have waged a war on two fronts: Urging lawmakers to pass a comprehensive immigration overhaul, and pressuring President Barack Obama to use administrative action to ease deportations and alter his enforcement policies. That dual strategy has, at times, competed with one another.

Now, key Senate Democrats still sensing a window of opportunity for immigration reform this year want that focus to be all on the GOP-led House for the next 10 weeks.

(Also on POLITICO: Boehner: Talks about bringing ENLIST act to floor)

We talked about doing everything we could to get the House to act before August recess, said Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) after the hourlong meeting. If they dont act, you know, then the president is going to have no choice but to act on his own. But wed all prefer that there be a legislative solution.

The groups at the Tuesday meeting primarily consisted of Latino and liberal-leaning advocacy organizations that have lobbied for immigration reform, along with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Democratic members of the Senate Gang of Eight that wrote the chambers overhaul bill.

Advocates who attended the meeting said Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), in particular, made a forceful case for waiting the 72 days until Aug. 1 the last day the Senate is slated to be in session before the monthlong break to try to get legislative reform that would be permanent, rather than an administrative relief that may be temporary.

(Also on POLITICO: States take on immigration)

But advocates also noted to senators that they are pressuring the administration not just to shield immigrants here illegally from deportations, but also to make some changes in the way that the administration carries out immigration enforcement.

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, who is leading the administrations deportation review, signaled last week that he may be announcing some changes to Secure Communities a program that calls on local law enforcement to give fingerprints of people booked into jails over to federal immigration officials.

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RUSH: Immigration Reform #39;Effectively The End Of The Republican Party #39;
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Ronnie Najarro on the prospects of Immigration reform this year
LIBRE Spokesperson Ronald Najarro talks with News 3 in Las Vegas about the possibility of immigration reform getting done this year.

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