Pushing for Immigration Reform from the Right
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2013
⏱️ 51 minutes
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A coalition of conservatives is on Capitol Hill to lobby Republicans for immigration reform. Can they move enough GOP members to get House leaders to allow a vote?
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point. |
| 0:08.2 | Immigration reform, a push from the right. |
| 0:14.3 | Hello again, I'm Arminolmi, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International, |
| 0:18.0 | a daily look at the issues Americans care about most, |
| 0:20.1 | a so-called conservative fly-in of 600 corporate executives, police chiefs, farmers, and |
| 0:25.7 | evangelicals landed on Capitol Hill today. |
| 0:28.8 | They're smaller in number than the crowds of immigration advocates who've appeared on the Washington |
| 0:32.3 | Mall, but this time some Republicans might be listening. |
| 0:35.8 | About 80 GOP members may need the support of Latino voters badly enough |
| 0:40.0 | to agree to some form of legalization and citizenship. |
| 0:43.9 | Does this leadership lobby have the clout to get immigration reform moving again? |
| 0:48.3 | Does it have the backing of its own grassroots members? |
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| 1:28.8 | A coalition of five or six hundred conservatives is on Capitol Hill today to lobby Republicans for immigration reform. |
| 1:34.9 | They range from the Chamber of Commerce to evangelicals who have been praying for reform, which they say does not mean amnesty. |
| 1:42.4 | Can they move enough GOP members to get House leaders to |
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