Recent immigration agency chief counsel criticizes House leadership for stalling immigration reform
“The House leadership’s procedural excuses for blocking
a vote on critical immigration reform make little sense,” says Stephen
Legomsky, professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis and the recent Chief Counsel of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
in the Department of Homeland Security. In that position he worked
intensively with White House and DHS officials and played a major role
on comprehensive immigration reform. “It’s now been 7 months since the
Senate passed a bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform bill.
Speaker Boehner should allow the people’s elected representatives in the
House to consider it without further delay,” Legomsky argues.