“Right now, the ball is in the Republican court,” said The Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, a coalition of evangelical churches. Both Rodriguez and Noorani were among a handful of grassroots leaders who sat down with Obama this week to discuss immigration.
“The question is whether or not Republicans want to alienate for many generations the Hispanic electorate, the immigrant community and now possibly the faith and family-values community that currently supports immigration reform,” the pastor added. “That’s the question that Mitch McConnell and John Boehner need to answer.”…
But a recent nationwide Quinnipiac University poll out showed that just 12 percent of 454 white born-again and evangelical Christians said they backed reform policies that integrate illegal immigrants into American society. Eighty-three percent said they wanted reform to focus on stricter enforcement of illegal immigration laws.
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