November 14, 2013
Washington, D.C. - John Boehner (R), the Republican Speaker of the House "reassured the far-right wing of the Republican Party and anti-immigrant activist that he would never agree to a conference to hammer out an agreement on a House immigration bill." Reported the American Immigration Council in its Press Release this afternoon.
The Release continues stating that:
"While that statement may have been reassuring to a few die-hard anti-immigration reform activists, it had the opposite effect for the vast majority of Americans. The Speaker’s statement does not stop the clock on the economic, social, and societal costs of doing nothing on immigration. It also does not honor the hard work of Democrats and Republicans who have worked in good faith to pass the Senate bill and negotiate on various fronts in the House.
However, what Speaker Boehner's statement does do is open the door to more protests and public outrage, encourage states to continue to take the lead on immigration policy and leave the administration in the difficult situation of deciding how long they will let Congressional inaction continue before they will intervene. When Congress refuses to act they make themselves less relevant and reinforce the idea that they cannot work constructively to fix our nation's most pressing problems."
The statement from Boehner comes following weeks of pressure on the Republican party from the public at large and within its own ranks to bring H.R.15 (the House version of S.744, the BiPartisan Immigration Reform Bill passed by the Senate earlier this year) to a vote. Boehner who has repeatedly surrendered to the demands of the small, but exceptionally vocal, far-right of the Republican party, fearing for his position as Speaker of the House, has apparently once again ignored the broader will of the people and has perhaps staved off what many political analysts, including several Republican Think-Tanks, see as the inevitable demise of the Republican Party in its current form.
Boehner's statement seems to have been triggered by the public statements of several notable Republican party members in favor of a vote on H.R.15 after succumbing to mounting pressure from the public in their Districts where polls are indicating that reelection is unlikely because of the Republican Party's stance on immigration.
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