house, many democrats, have said this isn t going to happen. is there anything specific that supports your optimism? i still feel that there is a chance because there is a broken immigration system that has so many consequences. there are millions of families waiting to reunite with their loved ones. there are businesses that can t find workers, particularly in the agricultural industry. there are 11 million undocumented that are already a fabric of our society. and yet they are living in the shadows. so there is a pressing need. of course, the main thing for the republicans, well, john mccain said it best this week. he said if they don t pass immigration reform, their chances for the presidential nominee of 2016 to win is absolutely zero. and the politics of that don t look good for them. you mentioned senator mccain. his old senior adviser steve schmidt spoke about this.
. they have about a six-week window from june soth, after the last republican primary, toil the august recess. if they don t pass immigration reform then, the president will have no choice but to act on his own. we ve waited 329 days. we re willing to wait another sucks weeks. that was like chuck schumer and harry reid last month, offering a republican the final chance to vote on the immigration reform bill the senate passed one year ago. they were not the only ones hoping at another shot of reform but the white house sought to delay a defense department plan to give dreamers a path to citizenship and last week the president postponed executive action on america s deportation policy, all in order to give republicans a last shot at seriously considering reform. this afternoon, house majority leader eric cantor released his monthly legislative memo and notably absent is any plan to even discuss immigration policy.
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in a way that they can be confident with, they re not even going to talk about a path to citizenship. now, if republicans don t pass an immigration bill, and you heard john mccain allude to it right there, it could severely impact the fortunes of the republican party. perhaps not in the midterm elections in 2014. but you can bet that if they don t pass immigration reform, whoever is the democratic nominee for president, and that could well be hillary clinton, would hammer them mercilessly over that and would make the 27% of hiss payne voters thhispanic that mitt romney bought in 2012 look like a high water mark in republican politics. it s a big issue and certainly nowhere near being resolved. john, good to see you. good to see you too, eric. what a big issue this is for our country. senators john mccain and charles schumer, only on fox news sunday. that s 2:00 p.m. here on the fox news channel and 6:00 p.m. a
a housewo working group. and both groups will take their time especially chairman of the judiciary committee. he wants to make it more easy to pass. rubio recognizes that it s going to be a slow walk. in terms of the electoral strategy, obviously you guys want to see immigration reform move forward. in terms of election politics, if the house gop, this blocking minority stops immigration reform that had marco rubio s name on it, that s a big precedent for democrats. the republican party is going to have a latino vote problem if they don t pass comprehensive immigration reform. that s why rubio is on board and you have senator flake and mccain on board. they understand if they don t pass immigration reform, they don t have a shot the latino voters for 2014 but also not for