Politics
In a sign of bi-partisan cooperation U.S. Speaker Boehner looking at ‘limited’ immigration reform
In a sign of bi-partisan co-operation, the Republican Speaker of the US House of Representatives, John Boehner, has signaled his intention to embrace a series of limited changes to the US immigration laws.
Aides to Boehner say he is committed to “step by step” moves to revise the immigration laws.
In giving immigration advocates new hope for 2014, the House Speaker has hired Rebecca Tallent, a longtime immigration adviser to Senator John McCain, the Arizona Republican who has long backed broad immigration changes, according to the New York Times.
“The only way to make sure immigration reform works this time is to address these complicated issues one step at a time,” Boehner said. “I think doing so will give the American people confidence that we’re dealing with these issues in a thoughtful way and a deliberative way.”
In the interim, immigration change advocates continue to demand an end to deportations.
“I have asked President Obama to suspend deportations of non-violent persons until we enact comprehensive immigration reform that permits these families to resolve their legal status in the United States,” Clarke, the daughter of Jamaican immigrants, who represents the 9th Congressional District in Brooklyn, New York, told reporters.
“In each instance of deportation, families are forcibly separated, leaving behind a husband or wife without a spouse or children without a parent,” added Clarke, who is the Ranking Member of the US House of Representatives’ Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Security Technologies.
