Growing Hope: Pro-immigration Reform Groups Pressure White House
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Growing Hope: Pro-immigration Reform Groups Pressure White House - Video
Speaker John Boehner has become increasingly isolated on immigration reform.
He wants to pass a bill, but can't get his House Republican Conference to get behind the effort.
I think we should but the appetite, the appetite amongst my colleagues for doing this is not real good, Boehner told constituents in Madison Township. Heres the attitude, Ohhh, dont make me do this. Ohhh, this is too hard. The comments, which were videotaped, went viral. Conservatives on and off Capitol Hill quickly expressed their displeasure.
Boehner has shifted from the message he delivered in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 6 when he blamed President Obama for the stalemate on immigration reform.
Theres widespread doubt about whether this administration can be trusted to enforce our laws, Boehner told reporters. And its going to be difficult to move any immigration legislation until that changes.
While centrist Republicans have backed Boehner and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), an influential voice within the House GOP Conference, is also pushing for action, conservative lawmakers remain highly skeptical.
Boehner's mocking comments about the doubters within his conference further hurt his cause. They could also cost him votes if as he claims he will run for Speaker again after the elections.
The main problem, according to Alfonso Aguilar, executive director of the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles, is that Boehner has failed to reach out to conservative lawmakers one-on-one.
"The problem is you have to win over the more conservative members. Many of them want to do something but the leadership is not talking to them. Boehner is not having one-on-one conversations and explaining why this is the right thing to do," said Aguilar, who has been meeting with lawmakers and their staffs on immigration reform for months.
Aguilar acknowledged that Boehner has reached out to Rep. Ral Labrador (R-Idaho), an outspoken conservative voice on immigration, but said that is not enough.
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WASHINGTON -- The push-pull of immigration reform is intensifying as Congress prepares to return to work for one of the last few legislative sessions before the midterm elections.
The window for Congress to approve an immigration overhaul is closing, but House Speaker John A. Boehner continues to suggest that action is still possible -- even as he mocked his colleagues who find the hot-button issue too difficult.
"Here's the attitude: Ohhhh. Don't make me do this. Ohhhh. This is too hard," Boehner said, mimicking a whining tone, at an Ohio luncheon, according to the Cincinnati Inquirer.
Boehner is racing the clock this summer, not only against the coming November election but the threat that the White House will take administrative action if Congress fails to act.
President Obama has made it clear that his patience has worn thin as House Republicans dabble in the issue, almost a full year after the Senate, which is controlled by Democrats, approved a sweeping bipartisan immigration law overhaul. Obama has directed the Homeland Security Department to review the way immigration laws are handled, and emphasis of that report is expected to fall on curbing deportations.
Obama also faces a time crunch. Advocates for immigrants, including those camped out in front of the White House this month, have tired of administration promises, particularly as deportations have separated families. Labeling Obama the "deporter in chief," as some have done, is not a legacy the president wants to stick.
But here's the rub: Every time the White House threatens executive actions, it drives Republicans further from any compromise with Democrats. Tea-party-aligned Republicans argue that the president would merely pick and chose which parts of new legislation he would enforce.
Twenty-two Republican senators raised the trust argument this week in a later warning Obama against the Homeland Security Department review.
"Our entire constitutional system is threatened," they wrote, "when the executive branch suspends the law at its whim."
Most observers believe that the opportunity for immigration reform during this Congress has long passed, and that this summer will provide a lot of talk but little action.
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