House Dems seek path to final immigration deal
By DONNA CASSATABy DONNA CASSATA, Associated Press?
?FILE - This April 22, 2013 file photo shows Janet Murguia, president and CEO, National Council of La Raza, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Minorities _ Hispanics, women, blacks, Asians _ stand as the majority among House Democrats, giving them considerable clout in pushing for the most massive rewrite of the nation?s immigration laws in a generation. As the immigration fight shifted to the House, rank-and-file Democrats delivered a simple message to their party leader on Friday: If Republicans who call the shots make good on their promise to bring up single-issue legislation, we?ll only go along if it gets us to negotiations with the Senate. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
FILE - This April 22, 2013 file photo shows Janet Murguia, president and CEO, National Council of La Raza, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Minorities _ Hispanics, women, blacks, Asians _ stand as the majority among House Democrats, giving them considerable clout in pushing for the most massive rewrite of the nation?s immigration laws in a generation. As the immigration fight shifted to the House, rank-and-file Democrats delivered a simple message to their party leader on Friday: If Republicans who call the shots make good on their promise to bring up single-issue legislation, we?ll only go along if it gets us to negotiations with the Senate. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
FILE - In this July 2, 2012 file photo, Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt. speaks in Montpelier, Vt. Minorities _ Hispanics, women, blacks, Asians _ stand as the majority among House Democrats, giving them considerable clout in pushing for the most massive rewrite of the nation?s immigration laws in a generation. As the immigration fight shifted to the House, rank-and-file Democrats delivered a simple message to their party leader on Friday: If Republicans who call the shots make good on their promise to bring up single-issue legislation, we?ll only go along if it gets us to negotiations with the Senate. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)
FILE - In this March 10, 2011 file photo, Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, listens during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Minorities _ Hispanics, women, blacks, Asians _ stand as the majority among House Democrats, giving them considerable clout in pushing for the most massive rewrite of the nation?s immigration laws in a generation. As the immigration fight shifted to the House, rank-and-file Democrats delivered a simple message to their party leader on Friday: If Republicans who call the shots make good on their promise to bring up single-issue legislation, we?ll only go along if it gets us to negotiations with the Senate. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
In this photo taken June 27, 2013, House Minority Leader, Democrat Nancy Pelosi of California, speaks at a Capitol Hill news conference in Washington. The Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee said Sunday, June 30, that any attempt at comprehensive immigration legislation cannot offer a "special pathway to citizenship" for those in the United States illegally. That approach, said Pelosi Sunday, could block the GOP's hopes of ever winning the White House. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Hispanics, blacks, Asians and women who together make up the majority of House Democrats publicly disparage Republicans' piecemeal approach to immigration and their omission of any legalization path for 11 million immigrants living here unlawfully.
But privately and pragmatically, Democrats recognize the GOP strategy may be their only route available to an historic policy change.
Speaker John Boehner, who controls the agenda in the Republican-led House, has said flatly that the House will not consider the bipartisan, Senate-passed bill. That measure promises a long path to U.S. citizenship for millions, plus billions of dollars in new spending for security along the U.S-Mexico border.
With few options, Democrats and many Republicans hope party leaders and President Barack Obama can come up with a compromise ? maybe in the fall.
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