HOUSE MAJORITY WHIP KEVIN MCCARTHY: AMNESTY DEAD IN 2013

House Majority Whip Rep. Kevin McCarthy said, with only 13 congressional working days left in the legislative calendar this year, immigration reform efforts in the House are dead for 2013. McCarthy’s comments came during a meeting with amnesty advocates, but the Associated Press reports that McCarthy’s office confirmed them.

“California Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the majority whip, said in a meeting with immigration proponents that there weren't enough days left for the House to act and he was committed to addressing overhaul of the nation's immigration system next year,” the Associated Press reported on Friday evening. “The congressman's office confirmed what he said.”

McCarthy is Majority Whip, the third highest position in GOP Leadership, and his view that no votes on immigration will happen before 2014 is significant. It means President Barack Obama’s signature second-term agenda goal—comprehensive immigration reform complete with an amnesty, or pathway to citizenship, for America’s at least 11 million illegal aliens—will not happen this year.

“What he said was, there's 13 days left, it's very hard to do anything in 13 days,” Angelica Salas,   the chairwoman of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, said about McCarthy’s meeting with pro-amnesty advocates at which he made the declaration.

Amnesty advocates had stormed McCarthy’s office demanding a meeting Thursday, prompting police to respond to the scene. After they remained in his office for hours that evening, McCarthy and his wife Judy eventually came down to meet with them. It was there, they said, he told them immigration reform efforts in the House are dead this year.

Via: Breitbart

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