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By Ted Hesson
March 13, 2018
House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) joined five conservative Hispanic leaders today to press House lawmakers to back his hawkish immigration legislation, the Securing America’s Future Act, H.R. 4760 (115).
The bill would cut family-based immigration, bolster enforcement resources and provide a three-year renewable status for enrollees in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
The bill has nearly 100 Republican co-sponsors in the House, but hasn’t attracted any Democratic support.
Alfonso Aguilar, president of the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles, called it “the last and only vehicle to move the issue forward” after talks stalled in the Senate last month.
“We would like to see a bipartisan bill. That was the goal,” Aguilar told POLITICO. “But if the only opportunity right now to help DREAMers is to pass it only with Republican votes, I think that’s what we’ve got.”
But whether the bill can win over enough lawmakers to pass in the House remains uncertain.
Goodlatte said House leaders intend to put the measure to a vote on the floor, but haven’t offered a concrete timeline. “Once we have a clear majority, I’m sure that the bill will move forward,” he said.
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chairwoman Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-N.M.) bashed the measure as “a poison-pill ridden effort” in a written statement. “We urge Chairman Goodlatte to stop grandstanding and delaying meaningful progress on bipartisan, negotiated legislation,” she said.
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