House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) said Monday at a Verona, Va. town hall meeting that he does not support a path to citizenship included in the Senate’s comprehensive immigration reform bill.
“It is not a bill I can support. That bill gives legal status to people not lawfully here before the enforcement is put in,” Goodlatte said, as quoted by the Waynesboro News Virginian.
Pressed by pro-immigration reform organizations who showed up in large numbers to the town hall, Goodlatte said the Senate’s bill lacked a plan for proper enforcement and gave a special path to citizenship to immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally, according to the News Virginian. The Virginia congressman said the House will not take up the Senate’s legislation.
