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McAuliffe Wins!
Virginia Democratic Sens. Mark Warner, left, and Tim Kaine, right, celebrate Gov.-elect Terry McAuliffe’s, center, election victory at a party in Tysons Corner, Va., Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen). See story on Page 12.
Immigration Reform Stuck in Limbo By Barrington M. Salmon WI Staff Writer While President Barack Obama announced recently that passage of comprehensive immigration reform is a legislative priority, it’s unclear when and whether a bill will pass. Groups and individuals who
support the measure have marched, invited arrest and exerted enormous pressure on Obama to act on his promise. The Senate – aided by the bipartisan Gang of Eight – produced a 1,100-page bill earlier this year but the measure is bottled up in the House of Representatives.
“The House is where the center of power lies in the Republican Party,” said Ryan Lizza, Washington correspondent for The New Yorker at the Oct. 31 forum held at the Georgetown Law School in Northwest. “… There was a time when they were coming to a cooperative relationship with the Democrats
but that slowly ground to a halt … there is slow, bubbling opposition beneath the surface. [The Gang of Eight agreement] was the product of deals which don’t look so great close up. Grassroots, populist opposition grew.” The Migration Policy Institute hosted the 10th annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference,
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where Lizza and other panelists said there is no consensus on passage of the bill. Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said immigration reform is doable adding that there’s the very real possibility the House would produce its version of the measure.
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