House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) wants to move immigration reform bills “early” next year.
The former immigration attorney says his party intends to tackle the thorny matter on two fronts: challenging President Obama’s executive action to grant millions of undocumented workers temporary legal status and moving bills that passed in his committee last Congress.
{mosads}He says GOP leaders have not decided “yet on the exact timing” for committee consideration of a border security bill, or “legislation dealing with interior enforcement … legislation dealing with reforming our legal immigration programs, particularly for high-skilled workers and for agricultural workers – all of those things passed out of the Judiciary Committee.”
But he says, “I think that we are going to look at moving those early in a new Congress.”
Watch what the high-ranking Virginia Republican says in a one-on-one interview about possible ways the GOP will challenge Obama’s “executive overreach” and his comments on potential House action.