The Plan to Sell Immigration Reform in the House

Greg Sargent: “It continues to be widely accepted that there is no chance comprehensive immigration reform could ever get through the House. But proponents of reform are not prepared to give up. And they are putting together a plan designed to win over individual House Republicans — one by one — by mobilizing constituencies within their districts to make an economic and moral case that reform is necessary not just to solve the immigration problem, but for the good of the economy and the country.”

“The idea is to identify major businesses — farmers, growers, tech
companies — in the districts of individual Republicans and get them to
make the case to their Members of Congress that immigration reform is
necessary for the good of the local economy. In other words, the idea is
to make this less about what major business groups such as the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce or big agricultural groups want and more about what
their individual members want of their own Representatives.”