The Range mentioned earlier today that the Senate’s immigration-reform package was facing a rocky road.
It looks even rockier in the House, according to ABC News:
Bipartisan meetings in the House of Representatives on a comprehensive immigration reform bill have failed, and the congressmen will meet for the last time today without reaching an agreement on a House bill, ABC News has learned.
The stumbling block is GOP insistence that newly legalized workers now working in the shadows have no access to government-sponsored health care during their 15-year pathway to citizenship, according to two sources with access to the secret house “Gang of 8″ meetings.
Democrats say that since these newly legalized immigrants would be paying taxes they should be eligible for benefits.
The stalemate is not expected to be solved and any immigration legislation from the House would likely proceed in piecemeal fashion.
This article appears in May 30 – Jun 5, 2013.
When this thing was first introduced, the major selling point was that illegal aliens would not be eligible for benefits. Now the Democrats want to change the rules and 90% of honest, hard working Americans want this bill to fail in the very worst way.
democraps say , since the newly become citizens and legal residents pay taxes, they then have the right to health care..
no ,what the means is,,, they have the right to fed and state wealfare programs , health care through state tax payer funded programs , social security, food stamps, public housing , free college education..
hell ! might as well give um free auto insurance to..
at even 12 bucks an hour , low skilled workers cannot afford to pay for their own health insurance, rent, utilities , food , car , auto insurance , baby formula , diapers, beer, gun, ammo , pot, cocain , meth, ..
your tax dollars will pay for the items and needs these people and the state think they need!!!!!!!