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Drudge Report Highlights Immigration Bill Efforts by Paul Ryan and Mario Diaz-Balart
The Drudge Report recently highlighted an article that considered the secretive efforts of Republican lawmakers to pass an immigration bill before the start of Congress' summer recess.
The article in question, titled "Mick Mulvaney's Summer of Apostasy,' was about an interview by Breitbart News with young Republican lawmaker Mick Mulvaney (SC) on the issue of U.S. immigration reform.
The article said that Republican Stalwarts Reps. Paul Ryan (WI) and Mario Diaz-Balart (FL) are leading efforts to raise support on immigration reform a few weeks before August.
Mulvaney joins the two and many believe shocked Republican power brokers in Congress.
During the interview, Mulvaney told Breitbart News that he has been talking with his colleagues for months about immigration.
However, he said that he is not expressing support for any bill per se and that he remains opposed to the U.S. Senate's comprehensive reform bill.
The bill, if passed into law, will grant amnesty to migrants who have entered U.S. soil illegally.
"I have absolutely no interest in taking up the Senate bill or going to conference on the Senate bill," Mulvaney told Breitbart News. "Securing our borders is my first priority on any immigration reform, and the Senate bill falls woefully short on that point."
Mulvaney stresses that he will not in any way support a process that would grant illegal aliens U.S. citizenship, referring to the Senate's version of the bill. For him, the Senate version is a non-starter.
Like Ryan and Diaz-Balart, the young conservative from South Carolina has been getting the ire of the more entrenched and older GOP power brokers.
In fact, his new immigration movement is not his first involvement in the issue of reforms. Breitbart News cited that in February, a New York Times reporter covered a South Carolina town hall that was conducted in Spanish, the first in the state's history.
Last week, Mulvaney blasted the immigration amnesty proponents during a town hall meeting.
"Immigration is not a simple issue. There are at least three major parts of it: there's border security, legal immigration, and the status of the 11 million, 15 million, 30 million "¦ pick a number - it's the status of the folks who are here illegally," Mulvaney said.
He added that unless these three parts are addressed, immigration reforms will not solve the problem.