GOP Immigration Bill to Leave Out Conservative Demands, Source Says
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The GOP immigration bill headed to the House floor for a vote Wednesday won’t include two provisions that had been demanded by some conservative lawmakers, which may cost support for legislation that already was teetering on the brink of failure.
Republican lawmakers spent days working on a way to include a requirement for employers to electronically check the immigration status of workers and another that overhauls a guest worker program for agriculture, but the latest version won’t include those two components, according to a Republican involved in the negotiations who was granted anonymity to discuss them.