Originally Posted by freshh.

I've always thought this too. Their new strategy is to legalize as few people as possible and mitigate any potential impact their votes could have (in the future) on the Republican Party. The less legalized, the less will seek citizenship, and subsequently vote Democrat.

What confirmed it for me was all that talk earlier this summer from Trey Gowdy about how the undocumented population should be divided between DREAMers and everyone else. The other group should then be divided according to the amount of time they've lived in the country.

And now, they've set their sights on us and Goodlatte doesn't want us to have a direct path to citizenship either.