CANTOR willing to deal about children and youths
 

GOP Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor called for a compromise immigration deal with President Barack Obama during a campaign interview with a local Virginia TV station.

“I have told the president, there are some things we can work on together,” he said in the WTVR interview.

“We can work on the border security bill together, we can work on something like the kids,” he said referring to his proposal to offer some undetermined variety of amnesty to the children and youths of millions of parents who entered the country illegally.

“So far, the president has just insisted that it’s all or nothing, [it is] my way or the highway,” Cantor complained. “That’s not going to happen,” he added.

But President Barack Obama is willing to make a deal, says one White House advisor, Rev. Richard Ryscavage.

Ryscavage is a Jesuit priest, a sociology and anthropology professor at Fairfield University, the director of the university’s Center for Faith and Public Life, and a member of a new White House panel on immigration.

A compromise is “what they’re preparing for, that’s what they think is going to happen, so they [publicly] asking for a lot of stuff that privately they don’t think they’re going to get” in a final deal, he told The Daily Caller June 6.

The White House’s domestic policy director, Cecilia Munoz, is willing to compromise, said Ryscavage, who works with administration officials on immigration issues. “Cecilia even knows that” the White House must compromise, he said.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/06/08/ca...#ixzz345PQp3IM

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Kids.and youth? Is 21 considered youth lol ?

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I'm assuming by youth they mean DACA recipients.

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What about all the original dreamers that started the movement they should be able to benifit from any dream act!!!

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All noise.

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Cantor has been willing to deal regarding immigration, in the same way that North Korea has been willing to deal regarding their nuclear weapons program.

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Damn it, I think I should have been nicer to my college gf 14 years ago and kissed her butt until we got married. It would have avoided all this non-sense.

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This is relatively big news for three reasons:

1. Cantor wants Boehner's job so for as long as he was the whip, he was careful to not offend hardcore representatives. Cantor's position should be close to the maximum deal that Republicans can accept.

2. Because he has tea party challenger for his primary - which not coincidentally is set for tomorrow- Cantor had adopted a pretty hardcore anti-immigration stance.

Saying one day before the primary that he's willing to compromise is the beginning of Cantor pivoting to deal making once the primary is over. He also probably feels that he ll win, otherwise, he wouldn't dare say anything.

3. The article says that the President is willing to compromise based on what House Republicans give him. That's also cause for optimism if you aren't married to the Senate reform bill which is politically dead right now. And it's cause for optimism because any kind of compromise will have to be even further to the left in order to satisfy House conservatives. This may mean for example, that the road to citizenship may not be in the final deal, although hopefully will have a ton of relief in other ways.

That's important, because choosing a pragmatic compromise is one of Obama's options. The other is to refuse a deal and blame failure on Republicans. So, as long as he doesn't choose the latter and he doesn't draw a line in the sand, some sort of a deal may emerge although obviously far from ideal.

I d still take it, because it's better than nothing.

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Mavni or dream act . I will take either one

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I don't believe it. They have had one year to put something on the table after pretty much announcing the Senate bill DOA. And now when administrative relief is on the table for non-DACA DREAMers and some of our parents, he comes out with this?