In a blow to the hopes of passing immigration reform anytime soon, the bipartisan House “gang of seven” plan is probably dead and almost certainly won’t be introduced this fall as promised, a top Democrat on the group acknowledges. “It doesn’t appear that we’re going to move forward with the group of seven,” Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez (Ill.), a key player on immigration as a member of the gang, said in an interview with me. “The process is stalled. I don’t believe we’re going to produce a bill anytime soon.” This undermines the already dwindling prospects for reform, because the House gang of seven plan — which would provide a path to citizenship but is significantly to the right of the Senate bill — was seen as a comprehensive plan that Republicans who genuinely want to solve the immigration problem just might coalesce around. (The gang of seven plan would reportedly provide for a probationary period for the 11 million, in which they’d admit wrongdoing, as well as onerous conditions for the path to citizenship, which would be 15 years long.)
Posted on: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 23:21:35 +0000
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