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Obamacare backlash a lifeline for Immigration Reform [amnesty]

Pressure seems to be working-in first weeks of the congressional recess, a number of Republicans have come forward in support of Imigration Reform
ABC News
Monday, August 19, 2013
National News

Distaste for one of President Obama's priorities seems to be offering a lifeline to a second.

One is already law; the other is working its way through Congress. One is Obamacare; the other, immigration reform.

RNC Ups Immigration Reform Pressure On Congressional GOP — But Rejects Path To Citizenship

President Barack Obama has said that any immigration reform bill must include a path to citizenship.
'Swampland' Time Magazine
Friday, August 16, 2013
National News

The Republican National Committee passed a resolution Friday calling on Congress to pass an immigration reform bill by the end of the year—but it stopped well short of the bipartisan compromise passed by the Senate earlier this year, omitting a “path to citizenship” for any class of illegal immigrant.

[House] Majority whip calls for immigration system 'that actually works'

Sees ways for Republicans to work toward legal status for the nation's 11 million undocumented immigrants [illegal aliens]
Orange County Register-Washington Bureau
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
National News
House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy said in an interview Monday that he sees ways for Republicans to work toward legal status for the nation's 11 million undocumented immigrants, but cautioned that border security must come first.
 

Colorado delegation remains deeply divided on immigration reform

Coffman will work to pressure House leadership to pass immigration reform
The Denver Post
Sunday, August 4, 2013
Colorado News
As Congress heads home for a five-week summer break, the evolving and contrasting views of Colorado's seven House members on comprehensive immigration reform illustrate why an overhaul may be an impossible feat in this Congress.
 

Report could hurt immigration deal-Homeland Security loses track of 1 million foreign people-and are years overdue in setting up a system to track departures

DHS lost track of 1.6 million people 2 years ago-1,901 of them were deemed a significant national security threat
The Washington Times
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
National News
The Homeland Security Department has lost track of more than 1 million people who it knows arrived in the U.S. but who it cannot prove left the country, according to an audit Tuesday that also found the department probably won't meet its own goals for deploying an entry-exit system.
 

Top Colorado GOP donors urge congressmen to support immigration reform

"Doing nothing is de facto amnesty"
The Denver Post
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Colorado News
A who's who of top Republican donors in Colorado sent a letter Tuesday beseeching Colorado's GOP delegation to embrace comprehensive immigration reform and provide a path to legal status for the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States.
 

Mike Coffman talks [in Spanish] to large crowd in Aurora on immigration reform

Related: Minorities have more optimism about the future after Obama's election, while struggling whites do not
The Denver Post
Monday, July 29, 2013
Colorado News
U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman addressed a packed church Sunday afternoon, discussing the future of immigration reform in America.
 
The Colorado Republican spoke at St. Pius X Catholic Parish to a predominantly Hispanic crowd, many sporting mini American flags.
 

CO's four House Republicans Thursday uniformly said they were not impressed with Senate immigration package.

Senate immigration bill may face trouble in House
The Denver Post
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Colorado News
To boil the political narrative of the Senate's massive immigration bill down to Colorado is to see the lengths Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet went through to woo Republican Rep. Cory Gardner.
 

Accord reached on [illegal alien] farmworkers for immigration bill

The deal would establish a new 'blue card' for workers already in the U.S.
Los Angeles Times
Friday, April 12, 2013
National News

It concludes one of the last major components of sweeping legislation being drafted in the Senate.

Immigration lobbies spent $1.5 billion since 2007

The Daily Caller
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
National News

A loose alliance of business and political groups has spent almost $1.5 billion since late 2007 to rewrite the nation’s immigration law according to a new report.

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