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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.

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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.

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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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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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