Paul Ryan is facing an immigration challenge — from his own party’s moderates

Vox ^ | 05/09/2018 | Dara Lind

[GIdget2004]

The House of Representatives has so far avoided taking up any immigration bills to address the fate of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and the 690,000 or so young unauthorized immigrants facing the loss of their temporary deportation protections under it.

Some members are trying to force the issue. And they’re moderate Republicans.

On Wednesday, five House Republicans — Reps. Jeff Denham (CA), Carlos Curbelo (FL), Will Hurd (TX), David Valadao (CA), and Mario Diaz-Balart (FL) — introduced a discharge petition to force Speaker Paul Ryan to take up a series of immigration bills under an obscure provision called the “queen of the hill” rule. It’s probably not a coincidence that they’re some of the House’s most vulnerable Republicans in the November midterm elections (except for Diaz-Balart, a longtime Republican immigration reformer).

The “queen of the hill” plan, which was introduced in March as a nonbinding resolution, would force votes on four different immigration bills. Two of the bills the plan’s proponents (which include the Congressional Hispanic Caucus as well as the moderate Republicans) have in mind would give permanent legal status to DACA recipients; a third would be the conservative bill written by Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) that the conservative House Freedom Caucus has been pushing, which would grant temporary status to DACA recipients in exchange for deep cuts to legal immigration and beefed-up interior enforcement; and the fourth bill would be up to Ryan to decide.

[GIdget2004]

Apparently at least 15 republicans have now signed on, and only 25 are needed, assuming all Dems sign on, to force the votes.

https://twitter.com/AlexNBCNews/status/994275677896675330

[Lurkinanloomin]

Reps. Jeff Denham (CA), Carlos Curbelo (FL), Will Hurd (TX), David Valadao (CA), and Mario Diaz-Balart (FL)
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Cheap Labor Express stooges, and they have a lot of company in the House, Ryan is one of them.
The citizens have maybe 50 on their side.

[Mariner]

I’m with Rep Jeff Denham.

Put a bill on the floor for a vote.

I want to know who will vote yes.

As long as we have Trump at POTUS I’m not worried about a sh!tty law getting through.

[Macoozie]

“.. facing the loss of their temporary deportation protections ...”

Well, they are TEMPORARY protections right?
So how long is TEMPORARY?

It was instituted by MEMORANDUM, not law.
Just end this shiite now.