WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has informed Democrats he may schedule a vote next week on a hard-line immigration bill pushed by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, a GOP candidate for president.
The move could bring debate over immigration to the Senate floor just as it flares on the presidential campaign trail. Cruz has been sparring with Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, another GOP hopeful.
The bill is called Kate’s Law for the woman shot in San Francisco by an immigrant illegally in the country. It would increase penalties for re-entering the country illegally.
McConnell has been under conservative pressure to bring it to a vote. But the move could give a platform to Cruz, with whom McConnell has sparred.
Democratic aides spoke anonymously to disclose McConnell’s potential plans.
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This should totally clog the TeaPotty…
Another vote for Rubio to miss.
Hispanics as political pawns for Ted Cruz’s ambitions. That should turn out well for the GOP.
Exactly my thoughts. The GOP is absolutely killing themselves with Hispanics, and they simply can’t stop, or even slow it down.
I stand by my prediction that in the aftermath of the 2016 election, republican strategists are going to be looking back fondly on the 27% of Hispanics that Romney garnered, as the good old days.