Brett Logiurato
Business Insider
12/3/2013
House Speaker John Boehner announced on Tuesday the hire of Rebecca Tallent, a top immigration policy aide who will advise the Speaker on the topic. Tallent joins Boehner’s office from the Bipartisan Policy Center, where she was the director of immigration policy. Her hire — which was announced at the bottom of a press release along with other new staff additions — signals that there’s still life for an immigration reform bill to become law sometime over the next year. And it came two weeks after Boehner declared in a press conference that despite press pronouncements, immigration reform was “absolutely not dead.” Pro-immigration reform advocates that have been critical of Boehner hailed the move, while groups that have decried Senate-passed legislation as “amnesty” pushed back furiously. “The Speaker remains hopeful that we can enact step-by-step, common-sense immigration reforms — the kind of reforms the American people understand and support,” Michael Steel, a Boehner spokesman, said in an email. “Becky Tallent, a well-known expert in this field of public policy, is a great addition to our team and that effort.”…
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Told ya @SpeakerBoehner is really for amnesty: hired @beckytallent, McCain’s amnesty captain from 06-07: http://t.co/1O1iVxf9Pt — Mark Krikorian (@MarkSKrikorian) December 3, 2013
Update: Meanwhile, overseas, Most Britons are eager to quit EU thanks to mass immigration fears
…Businesses were more positive than individuals about EU membership but both groups saw immigration as a downside to EU membership. “Immigration has without doubt fuelled the rise in anti-EU sentiment over the last few years,” said the pollsters’ report…
