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Five Reasons to Oppose Latest Senate Immigration Bill

By Ashton Ellis
Wednesday, June 26 2013

With the Senate gearing up to pass the third version of the Gang of Eight’s immigration reform bill by the end of the week, conservatives in the House of Representatives have five important reasons to let it die and start over. 1. Every version of the bill has been secretly negotiated and hastily considered No part of this bill has ever been up for debate. All three versions of the bill – the original agreement by the Gang of Eight, the so-called “manager’s amendment” that expanded it and the recently adopted Corker-Hoeven amendment that increased it again…

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