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Why 2014 Won't Be The Year For New Immigration Laws

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BuzzFeed - “There’s just no way they’re going to get it,” a former top aide to Harry Reid said of a comprehensive immigration effort. Doubts on the Hill about the hopes of the “grasping at straws” crowd. Kevin Lamarque / Reuters / Reuters WASHINGTON — Speaker John Boehner may have won room to maneuver with his conservative members when it comes to fiscal matters, but that doesn't mean the most powerful Republican in the country will fight members of his own party for an immigration law overhaul — no matter how hard advocates wish it to be true.Democrats and many supporters of a decade-old effort to regularize immigrants already in the country have seized on December's bipartisan budget deal as proof "comprehensive reform" is suddenly back on the table for Congress."For the first time Speaker Boehner has said he won't let the minority of his caucus, the tea party minority, run the show," Sen. Charles Schumer said of an immigration overh

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