The Republican leadership of the House of Representatives has made a commitment to hearing a tough new immigration bill in June, which would temporarily resolve the deferred action issue. This is according to Republican Congresswoman, Martha McSally, who helped to craft the bill.
A new report from the Arizona Republic states that McSally informed voters in Scottsdale on Sunday. They had gathered for her Senate campaign, which the Republican leaders of the House had promised back in January, to hear the new bill that she had assisted in developing. Virginia Representative, Bob Goodlatte, has sponsored the measure. It would provide new funds for border security, including the much-discussed wall on the border between the US and Mexico that has long been a goal of President Donald Trump, together with a reduction in legal immigration to the country.
But, the bill would also provide new temporary legal protections to the Dreamers – the young undocumented immigrants who came to the US while they were still underage and who have faced the threat of possible deportation since Trump announced the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program last September.
Democrats and some conservative Republicans have dismissed McSally’s involvement with the bill as a tactic to stay in office during an election year, with the Arizona Republican Senate primary on 28 August. But McSally says she began work on the measure long before deciding to enter the Senate race.