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Originally Posted by EditorInChief
Being comprehensive improves urgency???? --- This is a mis-conception!
Some of the issues that are being added to CIR are themselves very controversial: LGBT, STEM visas, Ag temp workers, H1B visas, etc. When any of those is added to the CIR, it effectively reduces its chance of passage.
The right leverage for Legalization should be border security and E-verify. As long as border security and E-verify are in the bill, that is enough to trade for legalization.
Adding irrelevant stuff to CIR only complicates the entire issue and makes CIR more difficult to pass.
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I'm not sure where I said urgency was an issue. The big ticket item is a pathway to citizenship. You can speculate as much as you want that a secure border and e verify is enough leverage for a path way to citizenship, but the facts are net illegal immigration is at 0, Secretary Napolitano has said that there haven't been this few attempts to cross the border since the 1970's and e-verify is more widely used today than any time in history. But your immigration hawks like Goodlatte are not calling for a pathway to citizenship..
I'm also not sure where you're getting that LGBT is being added and how STEM visas are controversial. There's also a broad consensus on the need for AG workers its just the # of the them is the issue. And everyone knows the importance of h1-b visas.