House Republicans plan more immigration legislation

Politico

By Seung Min Kim

July 22, 2015

House Republicans plan more immigration legislation 

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has promised lawmakers that he’ll bring more measures aimed at strengthening immigration enforcement to the House floor later this year, according to a top GOP immigration foe.

In an email sent to GOP lawmakers, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) details a conversation he had with the No. 2 House Republican earlier this week. During the talk, McCarthy had asked King whether he would oppose a bill on the floor later this week targeting “sanctuary cities” — a measure that has come under some criticism from conservatives for not being tough enough.

King wrote in the email that he would support the bill, but that other House conservatives — who are itching to do more immigration enforcement legislation — would be disappointed.

“Kevin McCarthy expressed commitment to me to bring enforcement immigration legislation to the floor after August,” King wrote in the email. “I’ll continue to advocate for what we can do that is constructive.”

The House is set to vote on a bill later this week that would ban Justice Department grants to so-called sanctuary cities, where local law enforcement choose not to abide by federal immigration officials to turn over undocumented immigrants.

“It’s a component of the right thing,” King, a leading immigration hard-liner, said of the bill Wednesday. “If the leader wants to bring a component of the right thing to the floor rather than the whole enchilada, as I see it, I’m gonna support the component of the right thing.”

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