From Cincinnati.com:
The fate of the first major immigration policy overhaul in nearly three decades now rests in the House, where John Boehner’s Republican caucus meets today to discuss how to proceed. The Senate last month passed a 1,200-plus-page bill that offers a pathway to citizenship for many of the 11 million immigrants living illegally in the United States, doubles the number of Border Patrol agents to about 40,000, increases employment-based visas and mandates that businesses use a federal database to ensure their employees are eligible to work here. Speaker Boehner, R-West Chester Township, has said the House will go its own way rather than taking up the Senate legislation… If the House is going to pass a bill, it needs to do so this year or early next before the election season begins, said Louis DeSipio, a professor of Latino studies at the University of California, Irvine. “The danger of doing nothing is that it will reinforce the message — not only to Latino voters but to moderate white voters — that Republicans are the party of ‘no’ when it comes to solving this problem,” DeSipio said. Still, DeSipio said that doing nothing remains a strong possibility for the House. “The House just seems so intransigent,” he said. “But (Boehner) hasn’t shown all his cards, so there’s still the possibility we could be surprised.”

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