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| Nancy Pelosi visits border and says immigration reform unlikely | |
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| House minority leader Nancy Pelosi said on Saturday she saw little hope for comprehensive immigration reform this year. | House minority leader Nancy Pelosi said on Saturday she saw little hope for comprehensive immigration reform this year. |
| Following a visit to a Border Patrol facility in Brownsville where unaccompanied children are being held, the California Democrat said she was more optimistic a few days ago. She also said the Republican speaker of the House, John Boehner, gives little reason to be hopeful now, but did not elaborate. | |
| "A few days ago I would have been more optimistic about comprehensive immigration reform," Pelosi said. "I thought that we had been finding a way because we have been very patient and respectful of [Speaker Boehner] trying to do it one way or another. | |
| “I don't think he gives us much reason to be hopeful now, but we never give up. There's still the month of July." | |
| More than 52,000 unaccompanied children, most from Central America, have been apprehended entering the US illegally since October. It has created what President Barack Obama called an “urgent humanitarian situation”. | More than 52,000 unaccompanied children, most from Central America, have been apprehended entering the US illegally since October. It has created what President Barack Obama called an “urgent humanitarian situation”. |
| Pelosi said Congress needed to put politics aside in addressing the child immigrants, and added: "The fact is these are children, children and families. | Pelosi said Congress needed to put politics aside in addressing the child immigrants, and added: "The fact is these are children, children and families. |
| “We have a moral responsibility to address this in a dignified way." | “We have a moral responsibility to address this in a dignified way." |
| She added: "We have to take it on a case-by-case basis. We don't want our good nature abused by those who would misrepresent what's happening in the United States on the subject of immigration to affect how we deal with a refugee problem." |