Now that the Senate has passed the bipartisan bill in the Senate, we await to see what happens in the House. Will the House take up the Senate Bill and pass it or produce its own bill that includes a core piece of senate Legislation, a path to the citizenship for 11 million unauthorized immigrants in the country.
It appears that the House will look at a narrower bill that does not provide path to citizenship and choose to legislate series of standalone bills that deal with strong border security, an agricultural, guest worker plan, fortified employment eligibly verification system and to expand immigration for science, technology, engineering and mathematic experts. "The House is not going to be log rolled by the Senate" a key law maker said, "We have a minority of the minority in the Senate voting for this bill," said Representative Tom Cole, Republican of Oklahoma, referring to the Republican Senators who back the Senate measure. "That's not going to put a lot of pressure on the majority of the majority in the House."
Two senior House Republican leadership aides were more blunt when speaking privately: Speaker John A. Boehner has no intention of angering conservative voters and jeopardizing the House Republican majority in 2014, in the interest of courting Hispanic voters on behalf of a 2016 Republican presidential nominee, who does not yet exist.
If anything, the politics of a gerrymandered House, where Republican lawmakers have much more to fear politically from the right than from the left, could push many Republicans to oppose a conservative alternative to the Senate's plan.
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