In the case of immigration, there has never been a majority for any of the proposals put forth by either party - executive amnesty or whatever other plan there is - to essentially legalize them and make them voters. There is not the majority support for any plan that either party has put forward. It is a gigantic issue.
On immigration reform you don’t get a bill without a path to citizenship .
for the existing illegal immigrants
Nigel Farage has persuaded too many people that we have lost control of our borders.
Thirty years people have been asking for a lawful system of immigration to end this lawlessness, and government on both parties have refused to give it to them.
A path to citizenship for those who are here illegally in my view is unfair to those waiting sometimes a decades in line to come here.
Lost in the often-vitriolic national quarrel over immigration reform is any examination of proposed measures that would result in excessive punishment, such as detention and deportation, for the most minor offenses.
I was a co-sponsor of Comprehensive Immigration Reform.
Republicans can't always agree on where to cut spending. They certainly can't agree on what to do about entitlements. There isn't a unified foreign policy vision, and there's no consensus on immigration reform.
If our focus in immigration reform is exclusively on high-skilled or STEM immigrants, where do the rest of the millions yearning to join our ranks fit in?
Economic conservatives like immigration reform, and in fact, many of them supported the bill that John McCain and I put together in the Senate.
