Let’s Make a Deal: Immigration Reform

Marguerite Bowling / January 06, 2010

So why don’t President Barack Obama and Speaker Nancy Pelosi want to allow CSPAN to televise the final health care negotiations? What deals are being made to secure the votes necessary to pass a plan that vast majorities of the American public are against?

TPM reports that Democratic lawmakers who were upset that illegal immigrants would not be allowed to participate in the new health care system may vote for final passage of a merged bill, “so long as the White House offers a substantive promise to start pushing comprehensive immigration legislation this year.”

“Those familiar with the talks say any immigration legislation will include various amnesty provisions to allow for health care coverage,” TPM notes. (more…)