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Republican Leaders Reveal Their Immigration Reform Plan

Republican Leaders Reveal Their Immigration Reform Plan

House Republican leaders have unveiled a new plan for immigration reform that could potentially give legal status to undocumented immigrants currently living in the country. According to The Washington Post, many advocates responded “positively” to the plan that said immigrants “should be allowed to ‘live legally and without fear’ in the United States if they meet a list of tough requirements and rules.”

The plan represents a significant shift in the traditional party policy on immigration. Along with granting a path to citizenship for “DREAMers” (mostly young undocumented immigrants who were brought to the country by their parents), the plan puts a heavy emphasis on border security. A report in The Daily Beast says that Though the GOP reforms wouldn’t provide undocumented immigrants with citizen status, they would be allowed to remain in the country legally if they “admit their culpability, pass rigorous background checks, pay significant fines and back taxes, develop proficiency in English and American civics and be able to support themselves and their families (without public benefits)” …

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