Source: Politico | Seung Min Kim
Immigration reform is almost certainly dead on Capitol Hill this year.
Many top sources close to the issue privately acknowledged after House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s shocking defeat Tuesday night that the already uphill battle for immigration reform was dealt the knockout blow.
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Jim Wallis, the founder of the Christian group Sojourners that has lobbied House Republicans on immigration reform, said bluntly: “Eric Cantor was not an ally of immigration reform.”
“At least as one person who is hoping and praying for immigration reform, I did not trust Eric Cantor to be on the right side,” Wallis said. “Now that he is gone, I am more hopeful that John Boehner can follow his own head and his own heart and do the right thing.”