As immigration reform debate begins, it helps to turn back the clock to 1986
As immigration reform debate begins, it helps to turn back the clock to 1986
- January 31, 2013
- Louis DeSipio, Chicano/Latino studies and political science professor, is featured on Southern California Public Radio January 31, 2013
From Southern California Public Radio:
Despite public momentum and White House support, two comprehensive immigration reform
bills died in Congress. House Republicans mounted the strongest opposition, said UC
Irvine political scientist Louis DeSipio. “In 2006, there was a genuine bipartisan
bill in the US Senate," DeSipio said. "It got some 20 some Republican senators to
vote for it, as well as just about all of the Democrats in the Senate. But it went
over to the House of Representatives and they rejected it on its face. In 2007 the
Senate wasn’t able to pass a bill, but I think everyone realized that even if they
did, the House would be very unlikely to support it.”
For the full story, please visit http://www.scpr.org/blogs/multiamerican/2013/01/31/12306/immigration-ref....
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