In what could imply a toughening of stand of the US Republicans in Congress against immigration restructuring, a top-ranking Republican parliamentarian has reportedly said that he is not much in favor of the making of a passageway to citizenship for the unauthorized immigrants in the country.
For those not tuned in, the American Senate gave green signal to a bill in the month of June this year. It would allegedly–in case it becomes a law–fashion such a path for most of the roughly 11.5 million unlawful aliens residing in the nation. But, for the bill to eventually become law, the same ought to also get a go-ahead from the House of Representatives.
Even as an unambiguous majority of the US nationals are allegedly in favor of the generation of such a passageway to citizenship, most of the Republican supporters are against the same. The Republicans have power over the House.
Extensive Impediment to Bill’s Passage
Coming back to the title at hand, a leading representative has reportedly said that he strongly opposes the formation of a corridor. The concerned body would have to subject the bill to a debate, and make changes to it, in case the House support votes on the bill. Given this, his resistance is a considerable barrier to the legislation’s passage.
Despite the fact that over the summer vacation of the Congress, several pro-reform associations have been trying to exert pressure on Republican Representatives, to shore-up the reform bill, some are relentlessly not in favor of any improvement act even while it comprises an article fashioning a corridor.
They allegedly claim that a clause like this would lead to an amnesty, and it would reward prohibited aliens for their criminal conduct. They could also fear that the members of their Republican Party could like to have them substituted as aspirants at the coming election by anti-reform alternatives, in a situation wherein they support the bill.
Several Republicans against Immigration Reorganization
The issue of immigration has invited much attention and heated debates in the US capital in 2013 what with numerous Congressmen, besides women, passionately expressing their views on it. Even as majority of the Republicans have expressed their resistance to the Senate’s improvement legislation, some less severe Republicans have reportedly adopted a somewhat more peace-making approach.
Such Republicans claim that while they are in opposition to the pathway for majority of the prohibited outsiders, they prefer the formation of a corridor for those banned visitors who were ushered-in to the nation as kids by their parents, and have since then have no second home. Significantly, these people are known as the DREAMERS.
