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Immigration: Not only have House Republicans made the funding of the Department of Homeland Security contingent on language derailing Obama’s executive action, but the House may advance legislation aimed at reforming U.S. immigration laws. The bill proposed by Republicans representatives will be very different from the Senate bill that failed to pass the House in 2013. That bill drew vast criticism for offering undocumented immigrants what conservatives call amnesty. By comparison, the legislation likely to be proposed in this current session of Congress will seek to strengthen border security and immigration laws while making immigration easier for high-skilled workers and farm laborers.

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New border surveillance bills will fill in current holes

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(Courtney, “Sen. Ron Johnson: Border Security Bill Is 'First Step' in Reform,” http://www.newsmax.com/Newsmax-Tv/Ron-Johnson-borders-John-Cornyn-Jeff-Flake/2015/01/21/id/619858/)//BB

Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson tells Newsmax TV that he expects to have bipartisan support for the Secure the Border First Act of 2015 that he is co-sponsoring with Texas Sen. John Cornyn and Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake. ∂ "We certainly should have bipartisan support for finally securing our border," Johnson, who is the new chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, told J.D. Hayworth on "America's Forum" on Wednesday. ∂ "I know the public supports it. They have been demanding it for decades, and of course, the political process has never given that to the American public," he said. ∂ "We have to secure the border as opposed to comprehensive reform," the Wisconsin Republican said. ∂ Story continues below video.∂ ∂ Note: Watch Newsmax TV now on DIRECTV Ch. 349 and DISH Ch. 223∂ Get Newsmax TV on your cable system – Click Here Now∂ "We have a problem with our immigration system and we do have to fix it, but the title is calling out the fact that this is the first step in any kind of immigration reform and we have to do it first," he said. ∂ Johnson, Cornyn and Flake announced their border security measure Wednesday, which is designed to be a companion bill to the border security legislation introduced by House Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul of Texas. ∂ Johnson said that because Cornyn, Flake and McCaul are all from border states, "they have been dealing with this issue" first hand, and he's planning "to look to their expertise."∂ "Certainly, Chairman McCaul has been drafting and crafting bills for a while," he added. ∂ McCaul told The Texas Tribune that the House border security bill "is the toughest border security bill ever before Congress" and it includes "real penalties for the administration for not doing their job." ∂ As Johnson takes the reins of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, the Wisconsin Republican says that "the mission statement of our committee under my chairmanship is pretty simple. It's 'to enhance the economic and national security of America.'∂ "If you want to keep this nation safe, we need to defeat ISIS. We need to secure our border," he said. ∂ "It starts with recognizing reality — that's what we're going to be holding hearings on, and then we'll set achievable goals."∂ "I'm really going to bring a fresh pair of eyes to this process, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel where there's some really good prescriptive items we can employ to secure the border," he said. "I want to utilize those things."∂ Johnson admits that the border security bill "is a starting point," and that he also plans to work with Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley's Judiciary Committee "to make sure we combine a border security and immigration enforcement provision because you really need to combine both."

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That’s not relevant to our DA.

Immigration policy changes are coming---only a question of form

Economist 5-28

(“Barriers ahead,” Economist, http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2015/05/politics-immigration)

A FEDERAL appeals court ruled on Tuesday against the Obama administration’s executive order to shield millions of immigrants from deportation. This decision is most immediately a blow to migrants who must continue to live in the shadows. Pundits add that this is a big setback for Barack Obama, as the president now may not see his big immigration plans take effect while he is in office. Republicans may be celebrating, as many have come out against the president’s policies for immigration reform. But for the many GOP candidates who are jockeying for position in the 2016 presidential field, the appeals-court ruling is bad news. Immigration will now be squarely on the agenda.∂ Candidates running for the White House will now have to spell out just how many millions of long-established migrants they would seek to deport if elected (angering many non-white voters), or how many they would allow to stay (risking conservative cries of “amnesty”). Hillary Clinton is surely smiling, particularly as Hispanic voters could prove pivotal in some swing states in the 2016 elections, from Florida to Nevada.∂ The legal import of this week’s ruling is relatively slight. The Fifth Circuit of Appeals in New Orleans was not offering a formal opinion on the underlying legality of Mr Obama’s actions. Rather, it merely dismissed a procedural challenge by government lawyers to a ruling in February by a federal judge in Texas, which has halted the president’s immigration agenda like a cartoon spanner thrown into giant cogwheels. The same appeals court will be asked to take a view on the merits of the Texas judge’s reasoning this summer, though in fact the whole question could easily end up in the Supreme Court.∂ For now, though, by a split 2-1 decision, the Fifth Circuit signalled that its sympathies lie with Texas and 25 other largely Republican states, which sued Mr Obama for what they call a “lawless” attempt to bypass Congress and rewrite immigration law by presidential fiat. The lawsuit by the 26 states involves an executive decision unveiled in November 2014 that protects from deportation an estimated 4m parents of citizens and permanent residents (green-card holders), as well as some 300,000 people who arrived as children and meet specific criteria. The order expanded an earlier policy for granting residence—but not formal legal status—to immigrants who came as children, graduated from high school and have not been convicted of a serious crime. The government had planned to start taking applications this month.∂ The whole row has a deeply partisan slant to it, which is depressing to anyone who has hopes of seeing America fix its broken immigration system. Comprehensive reform will advance only when broad, bipartisan majorities are on board.∂ To simplify, but not by much, the 26 states seeking to block Mr Obama take the view that bringing immigrants in from the shadows imposes painful costs on the states where they live. Texas and the others say that they would be forced to spend money issuing driving licences and other services to newly legal residents, and so the president’s scheme goes way beyond an exercise of his executive powers to decide who should and should not be deported. But 15 other, largely Democratic states side with the government, arguing that deportation priorities are an executive prerogative—and that more broadly it is a net boon to the country to let those already here work legally.∂ Expect all 2016 candidates to be asked where they stand on the president’s executive decisions. Some Republicans may have planned to fudge the question, by thundering about his habit of ignoring the constitution, or by murmuring about pathways to legal status for migrants that meet lots of arduous criteria and wait a long time at the back of a line. But now that many millions of otherwise hard-working law-abiding migrants face deportation in America, it may be the job of the country’s next president to decide their fate.

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