Reid, Schumer Repeat Immigration-Delay Proposal, Boehner Dismisses Gambit

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In an effort to jumpstart House action, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., today again proposed to pass an amnesty bill with a 2017 effective date to mollify Republican concerns that Obama will not carry out the legislation’s enforcement provisions. A spokesman for Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, dismissed the offer saying that President Obama would then have no incentive to enforce immigration law for the rest of his term.

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