U.S. Republicans fail to vote for immigration law

The worst fears of the Republican leader in the House of Representatives, John Boehner, threaten to be met: if it fails agreement literally last minute, lawmakers begin their summer vacation on Friday without giving any appearance of solution to the hottest internal political crisis during recent weeks in the United States, caused by the influx of Central American children to the border.

The lower house is due to end on Thursday its activities and hang the “closed for vacation” during the next five weeks. But after the sudden withdrawal of the proposed law itself on the situation on the border, for lack of votes on the floor despite having most Republican leaders decided to extend the session of Congress at least until Friday.

The goal: avoid at all costs serve on a platter to the Democrats of President Barack Obama’s argument that are already brandishing about the unwillingness of conservatives to do something productive to solve the crisis created by the undocumented minors.

And surely redouble after another failure promoted by Republicans on Thursday: the alternative of Democrats in the Senate, which provided $ 2,700 million to provide funds to solve the immigration crisis, failed legislative proposal on Thursday or the stage floor vote because it could not even pass a procedural hurdle driven by the Republican minority in that chamber.

Fear of the Republican leadership is that Democrats seize the long weeks of recess to permeate the Republican electorate’s message inaction against minors, and are now almost 60,000 – comers to the border alone. And it also led after the failure of a proposed comprehensive immigration reform by refusing to allow outside voted in the House.

That is precisely what Boehner wanted to prevent the approval of his now failed initiative, especially since after the holidays, there will be very little legislative time until the parliamentary elections in November to change the narrative.

The bill H. R. 5230 was withdrawn suddenly on Thursday, the list of items to vote. And is that while Republicans are the majority in the House of Representatives, failed to meet the minimum number of votes needed -218 – so it could be approved. Although the cancellation of the vote gave a bad image, would have been a much worse defeat in the Chamber that dominate.

But even since the day before it was known that the Republicans were struggling to unite its ranks after the proposal, the decision took many by surprise, since the lower house of Congress took several hours of your last day of work discussing precisely this initiative.

This expected to provide an additional $ 659 million to the government to deal with the border crisis, well below the 3,700 million requested by the White House to Congress.

The bill, which the White House had already said he would veto if approved, also had the Democratic rejection decided by factors that brought added: sending the National Guard to the border and, above all, the amendment of the 2008 law against human trafficking so as to allow, as already happens with Mexicans, the immediate deportation of Central American children who arrive at the border, instead of guaranteeing judicial process.

Despite the harshness of the bill, however this was not to convince the most conservative Republicans, many of whom thought it was not going far enough.

In front of what the American media have termed a conservative revolt is Sen. Ted Cruz, who Wednesday night managed to convince some members of the Tea Party that the initiative promoted by Boehner bastaba.Su not demand, that be included in the proposal for a clause forbidding Obama to extend to other groups of undocumented his executive order that deferred action since 2012 has benefited hundreds of thousands of undocumented youth.

Finally, Republicans seemed to have reached a negotiated settlement: Thursday is the first vote HR 5230 with additional funds for the crisis and immediately, the proposal to delimit the ” deferred action ” from Obama. But even then managed to make enough conservative votes in his chamber to pass the bill, so it was withdrawn abruptly.

The Republican – Boehner dome and newly-minted majority leaders, Kevin McCarthy and Steve Scalise, a conference convened immediately closed to try to find a solution that does not make them appear to be empty-handed doors. An image that will try to change on Friday, but according to U.S. media still do not have guaranteed success.

Furthermore, beyond what they accomplish, evil seems to be made: the debacle in the full House of Representatives is considered a test of the internal fracture that is causing the migration issue in the Republican Party.

” Go for the Republican leadership,” ” humiliating defeat ” or ” mess ” were some of the expressions that the American press chose to label the situation.

” When you cede control of the agenda of the House of Representatives Ted Cruz, Republican far right have shown their true colors,” said Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz. ” If they really cared about finding solutions to our broken immigration system, approve the bipartisan Senate bill or approve the request for funding of the president. Instead, their priority is to deport children hurt the migrant community at all costs and impede any progress in the ” immigration reform.

“Obama should put Ted Cruz on the White House payroll ,” said Congressman Peter King.

Even a conservative Republican who leaves no doubt that Rick Perry, Governor of Texas – that is, the state of Cross – expressed outrage at the lack of action by Congress of his party.

“It is incredible that Congress leaves office when our border crisis is creating humanitarian suffering as criminal immigrants remain a clear threat to our citizens and our nation,” said in a statement. “Congress and the president have a duty to serve our border problems without delay. Congress should not be in recess until it has finished its work. “

“I’ll have to explain a lot,” acknowledged to reporters Texas congressman Blake Farenthold after the failed vote.

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