May 14, 2014

Three reasons immigration reform could pass in 2014

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There are three reasons this patient can’t yet be declared dead. The first is that House Speaker John Boehner has gone out of his way to show that he wants to try to get something done on immigration this year.

His most high-profile display of eagerness to have a crack at immigration wasn’t artful; in late April, at an event back home in Ohio, he openly mocked Republicans in his own House caucus who, he said, are afraid to take on the tough issue. Artful or not, though, his performance served notice on his GOP colleagues that the subject remains very much on his agenda. The Wall Street Journal

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