How’s that whole Latino outreach going?
House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) told immigration advocates that lawmakers will not take-up immigration reform this year. As a result, an amendment to deport DREAM-eligible immigrants — which passed with overwhelming GOP support in June — will be the only immigration measure to have received a vote on the floor of the House in 2013.
After taking a shellacking in the 2012 elections, largely due to the fact that they had made it clear in the primaries that they hate Latinos, the Republicans had a little brainstorm and decided that the best way to mitigate the damage they had done would be to ignore all calls for immigration reform and allow precisely one vote on the issue all year. That vote would be on whether or not to deport kids who have done well in school, have no criminal record, and who were brought here by their parents when they were children. They overwhelmingly decided that, yes, those kids should be deported.
That was their plan.
The results will be predictable.
