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VL supporter Jos Andrs talks about immigration reform at the 2014 GWU Commencement Speech on the national mall in Washington D.C. Watch Full speech here: http://bit.ly/1mP8TYQ.
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So the political tide among conservatives and Republicans may be turning in favor of immigration reform. As a longtime supporter of reform who believes that immigration is a pro-growth issueI am delighted to see these developments.
If the GOP is to recapture the Senate come November and move on to retake the presidency in 2016, it must have a strong pro-growth message. Jobs and the economy are going to be key issues. Tax reform, regulatory rollbacks and a rewriting of Obamacare that ends the mandates and provides real health-care freedom to choose are vital points.
But so is the immigration issue.
Not only because it is pro-growth, but because the Republican Party must return to its big tent roots. It must follow the lead of Ronald Reagan and Jack Kemp. It must reach out to Latinos, African-Americans, young people and women. A conservative Catholic like myself can work inside the same tent as my Log Cabin Republican friends.
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In doing so, the GOP can maintain its core conservative principles of economic growth, limited government and military strength. As Reagan taught us, strength at home in the domestic economy is vital to strength abroad in national security. That must not change. Nor should the GOP's longtime support for defending the life of the unborn.
But the GOP will not be successful unless it actively reaches out to groups that have recently deserted it. It must show independents and disaffected Democrats that the Republican Party is open for business, ready to spread its wings to attract greater support.
Immigration reform is a crucial symbol in the GOP reach-out effort. It will create new trust in a party that can govern for all.
All the recent polls say immigration reform is popular. A survey by the Partnership for a New American Economy shows that around 70 percent of Republicans who identify with the tea-party movement support immigration reform. They back the idea of undocumented immigrants obtaining either legalization or a path to citizenship. And 76 percent of surveyed Republicans support improved border security and letting immigrants remain in the U.S., while 69 percent say they would also support a candidate who backs broad reform.
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Kudlow: Immigration reform is pro-growth
So the political tide among conservatives and Republicans may be turning in favor of immigration reform. As a longtime supporter of reform who believes that immigration is a pro-growth issueI am delighted to see these developments.
If the GOP is to recapture the Senate come November and move on to retake the presidency in 2016, it must have a strong pro-growth message. Jobs and the economy are going to be key issues. Tax reform, regulatory rollbacks and a rewriting of Obamacare that ends the mandates and provides real health-care freedom to choose are vital points.
But so is the immigration issue.
Not only because it is pro-growth, but because the Republican Party must return to its big tent roots. It must follow the lead of Ronald Reagan and Jack Kemp. It must reach out to Latinos, African-Americans, young people and women. A conservative Catholic like myself can work inside the same tent as my Log Cabin Republican friends.
Read MoreRepublican leaders to block immigration measure
In doing so, the GOP can maintain its core conservative principles of economic growth, limited government and military strength. As Reagan taught us, strength at home in the domestic economy is vital to strength abroad in national security. That must not change. Nor should the GOP's longtime support for defending the life of the unborn.
But the GOP will not be successful unless it actively reaches out to groups that have recently deserted it. It must show independents and disaffected Democrats that the Republican Party is open for business, ready to spread its wings to attract greater support.
Immigration reform is a crucial symbol in the GOP reach-out effort. It will create new trust in a party that can govern for all.
All the recent polls say immigration reform is popular. A survey by the Partnership for a New American Economy shows that around 70 percent of Republicans who identify with the tea-party movement support immigration reform. They back the idea of undocumented immigrants obtaining either legalization or a path to citizenship. And 76 percent of surveyed Republicans support improved border security and letting immigrants remain in the U.S., while 69 percent say they would also support a candidate who backs broad reform.
Read MoreImmigration, wage reforms near: Obama advisor
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Kudlow: Immigration reform is pro-growth, pro-GOP
Its up to Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio).
Republican and Democratic advocates see one final, long-shot chance to pass immigration reform this summer, and its fate rests with a Speaker stuck between his partys resistance and his search for a career-defining legacy.
Boehner clearly wants to overhaul the immigration system, but to revive the issue, he will have to untangle knots he tied during the past year.
First, he ruled out the Senates comprehensive bill and said no House bill would get a vote absent support from a majority of Republicans. Then he announced that instead of a single, wide-ranging bill, the House would take a step-by-step approach, with reform embodied in several separate bills that could not be reconciled with the Senate proposal.
Yet these practical or procedural hurdles may not be Boehners biggest challenge. The highest bar to clear may be an issue of trust, specifically trust of President Obama.
Since February, the Speaker has said legislation cannot proceed until Republicans can trust the administration to enforce any new laws Congress passes.
It is a seemingly impossible standard for a president reviled by a majority of Republican lawmakers. Even stalwart advocates of immigration reform see scant chance of Obama meeting it.
Nobody trusts the president, and thats just the reality, said Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (Fla.), a Republican who has written a bill that beefs up border security and offers a path to legal status for illegal immigrants. Can the president re-establish his credibility in the next two months with the House, with the American people or with our allies? No. I think he can hopefully not make it worse.
Boehner has not said how Obama could restore trust among Republicans who have watched angrily as he has repeatedly delayed parts of the healthcare law without congressional approval. Aides say, however, that he could begin by working with GOP members on some of their other priorities, such as the Skills Act, which the House passed to overhaul federal job-training programs.
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Boehner's big immigration decision
Once again, theres said to be a thin ray of hope for immigration reform gaining passage this year. And once again, any hope of passage rests with one man: John Boehner. Republican and Democratic advocates see one final, long-shot chance to pass immigration reform this summer, and its fate rests with a Speaker stuck between his partys resistance and his search for a career-defining legacy, reports the Hill.
Weve heard this same story many, many times before.
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is voicing confidence in the prospects for immigration reform in the House, the Hill reported in January 2013.
Speaker John Boehner gave a sliver of fresh insight into his thinking about immigration reform, saying he thinks legislation will pass the House before Congress has to wrestle with the debt ceiling, Politico reported in July 2013.
Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio has signaled he may embrace a series of limited changes to the nations immigration laws in the coming months, the New York Times reported in January of this year.
Each time the Boehner may back immigration reform balloon goes up, it gets popped, often by Boehner himself.
It always comes back to Boehner and the will-he-wont-he decision he keeps putting off. The fact that any immediate hopes for reforming the grossly dysfunctional immigration system rest with this self-interested coward should be enough reason to believe that nothing will happen any time soon.
Boehner wants to pass immigration reform. But he cant, explains the speaker, because theres a trust gap between Barack Obama and the House Republicans. Boehner says his caucus cant sign on to any reforms until they can trust Obama to enforce the law and evict as many brown people from the country as possible. The American people and including many of my members dont trust that the reform were talking about will be implemented as it was intended to be, Boehner has said.
Try to envision a scenario in which the House Republican caucus could be described as trusting of the president. Right now theyre a hairs breadth from filing articles of impeachment over the Benghazi coverup they know happened but cant prove. Boehners setting a bar for action on immigration that he knows is impossible for Obama to clear.
If there is a problem with trust, its safe to say that it emanates from the Republican adherence to a maximalist position on border enforcement and deportations. Forget Obama its doubtful that any person sufficiently moderate enough to win the presidency could also win the trust of the House Republican caucus on immigration.
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Its all a lie: Inside John Boehners twisted immigration cowardice