Boehner Shouldn’t Expect Pelosi’s Help on Immigration Policy
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., makes her way to a news conference on Thursday.
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House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi pulled Republicans from the brink of shutting down the U.S. Department of Homeland Security this week. Don’t expect her to help them out of any similar bind on immigration policy.
Prospects for action this year on rewriting the nation’s immigration laws have always been dim. Members of both parties say that’s even more the case after House Republicans lost their bid to use a Homeland Security spending bill to roll back President Barack Obama’s orders easing deportation of undocumented immigrants.