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发帖数: 4704 | 1 中文总结：
(1) 共和党说要想非移合法化，首先加强边境管理，奥八表示理解。
(2) Rubio不鸟奥八，奥八就不请他开会。
(3) 舒默说三月出提案。
(BN) Republican Senators Encouraged by Immigration Meeting With Obama
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Republican Senators Encouraged by Immigration Meeting With Obama
2013-02-26 23:33:13.226 GMT
By Kathleen Hunter
Feb. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsey
Graham said they are encouraged that President Barack Obama understands
their insistence that better border security precede a path to U.S.
citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
“Senator McCain made a strong point about the border, and the
president understands the working components of it,” Graham told reporters
today after the senators met with Obama at the White House.
“I was, quite frankly, encouraged,” said Graham of South Carolina. “
I think we will have presidential leadership in a very productive way on
immigration reform, and, with that, we’ve got a very good chance of doing
it this year.”
Obama has called on Congress to pass immigration changes to boost
border security and create a citizenship path for some of the 11 million
undocumented immigrants already in the U.S.
Republican resistance to such a proposal has lessened since the November
election, in which Obama won 71 percent of the Hispanic vote.
McCain told reporters the meeting made him “more confident” that
Obama understood Republicans’ emphasis on stronger border security. Still,
McCain and Graham wouldn’t say whether they think Obama would sign a bill
that tied citizenship to border security.
“I believe that the president is very committed to comprehensive
immigration reform,” said McCain of Arizona.
“Does that mean he’s committed to anything we do? No, he has his positions
on the issue as well, but I believe he is sincerely desirous of
comprehensive immigration reform.”
Rubio, Flake
The lawmakers, along with Republicans Marco Rubio of Florida and Jeff
Flake of Arizona, are part of a bipartisan group of eight senators working
to craft a revision of immigration policy.
Graham said before the meeting that he was “a little bit”
surprised that Rubio and Flake weren’t included.“But I don’t make the
invitations,” he added.
Rubio earlier this month criticized the president after USA Today
reported that the White House was drafting its version of immigration
legislation. Administration officials characterized it as a backup plan.
A potential 2016 presidential candidate, Rubio gave the Republican
response to Obama’s Feb. 12 State of the Union address. His office didn’t
respond to a request for comment.
For McCain and Graham, it was their first meeting with Obama since the
Senate group began working on its plan. The group is seeking to turn
principles it released last month into legislation.
‘Reasonable Time’
“I am confident that we will complete it in a reasonable time frame,”
McCain said today. He declined to offer details.
Obama met Feb. 13 with the Senate group’s four Democratic
members: Charles Schumer of New York, Richard Durbin of Illinois, Robert
Menendez of New Jersey and Michael Bennet of Colorado.
Schumer, in an interview today, said the bipartisan group’s
negotiations were “going good” and “moving along” and predicted the
group will offer legislation in March. He said the group was “making
progress” on Republicans’ demand that a path to citizenship come only
after a measurable increase in border security.
A top Rubio aide told a group of Latino elected officials at a private
briefing today that the senator welcomes the meeting as a positive sign that
Obama is committed to a bipartisan approach to rewriting immigration law,
according to two people who attended the event.
Enrique Gonzalez III, who Rubio brought on board to work on the
immigration efforts, said it is almost impossible to sink the effort, the
people said. The comments were made at a luncheon sponsored by the National
Association of Elected and Appointed Officials Educational Fund.
--With assistance from Julie Hirschfeld Davis, Lisa Lerer and Margaret Talev
in Washington. Editors: Laurie Asseo, Jodi Schneider
To contact the reporter on this story:
Kathleen Hunter in Washington at +1-202-654-7343 or k******[email protected]
To contact the editor responsible for this story:
Jodi Schneider at +1-202-654-7362 or
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