House Speaker Paul Ryan’s amnesty bill got only 121 GOP votes in the House, marking a huge defeat despite his earlier effort to gain votes from business-first legislators by offering to add two huge visa-worker programs.
The 121-to-301 defeat showed the populist shift in the GOP’s caucus towards the lower-immigration/higher wages policies pushed by President Donald Trump, and away from Ryan’s brand of donor-backed, business-first, wage-lowering immigration policies.
Ryan’s bill got fewer votes than the tougher bill drafted by Rep. Bob Goodlatte, which did not include a full amnesty but only allowed work-permits to roughly 700,000 migrants. On June 21, 193 legislators backed Ryan’s bill, just 27 votes short of a majority. – READ MORE
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