Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ), a member of the Senate’s immigration “Gang of Eight,” let slip in an interview with the Arizona Republic exactly what House Budget Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) plans to do to sneak amnesty past the House GOP conference.
Flake said a select, small group of House Republicans like Ryan and Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) plan to create a different pathway to legalization for illegal immigrants in America than the Senate’s pathway to citizenship. Ryan is writing a bill that would legalize the status of America’s illegal aliens, and now Flake has publicly exposed exactly what it will be.
“It still won’t prohibit those who are here illegally now from getting on some sort of track that already exists,” Flake said in an interview with the Arizona Republic's Dan Nowicki. “It just wouldn’t create a special path like we did in the Senate bill. We think that that would be acceptable to the Senate Democrats.”
This new pathway to legalization would of course then fit into the House GOP establishment’s plans to try to save the Senate bill via a conference committee. Last July, Ryan told a town hall in his district that he plans to try to pass a group of piecemeal immigration bills to eventually get to a conference committee with the Senate bill. "A lot of people are saying, just pass the Senate bill," Ryan said then. "That's not what the House is going to do. I think we can make it better.”