Labor agreement could backfire on immigration reform

The Hill:

"Organized labor’s new unified front in support of comprehensive immigration reform could disrupt what’s left of the delicate bipartisan balance on one of the most politically charged issues in Congress."

“The current plan being developed by the administration and organized labor calls for immigration reform that does not adequately address either securing the border or a legal temporary worker program and is a plan I cannot support,” said Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), the lead Republican sponsor of the immigration bill that died in the Senate after a conservative uprising against it in 2007.

McCain’s support – and the support of other Senate Republicans – will be necessary to advance a comprehensive bill even to the point it got to two years ago.



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