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House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (LA) and his colleagues announced a hearing on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, legislation that would protect babies born alive after abortion from infanticide.

House Republicans have a plan to force a vote on the Born Alive Survivors Act, Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told Breitbart News radio SiriusXM 125 listeners Saturday.

Fourteen of the 23 GOP members who signed the cheap-labor Discharge Petition amnesty in June will be gone from Congress in January.

The discharge-petition amnesty — and the resulting furious splits within the GOP — was planned and triggered by a Californian Democratic legislator, according to a nugget buried in a Politico report. 

GOP House Whip Steve Scalise said Tuesday that GOP leaders’ backroom talks will help keep a breakaway group of GOP legislators from reaching their 25-signature target on the amnesty discharge-petition. 

Author and immigration expert Mickey Kaus says an expansive amnesty for illegal aliens threatens Americans’ wages first and foremost, as a flooded labor market keeps U.S. wages low and stagnant. In an interview with SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday, Kaus told Deputy

An amnesty plan being negotiated by Republicans in the House will likely allow illegal aliens who were brought to the U.S. by their illegal alien parents to bring those parents to the country.

Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) says the Republican establishment’s discharge petition — which would force a vote on an expansive amnesty for illegal aliens — would be a “vehicle” for “whatever” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) wants on immigration.

President Donald Trump shoved cheap-labor immigration back into the November election by suggesting he would veto any amnesty which emerges from the discharge petition process, and also by urging Congress to pass his four-part immigration compromise.

House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-NC) told reporters on Thursday that conservatives will withhold their vote on the Farm Bill until they receive a vote on the President Donald Trump-endorsed Goodlatte immigration bill.

Rep. Steve King (R-IA) discussed how his fellow Republicans’ pro-amnesty “discharge petition” machinations could let Speaker of the House Paul Ryan bring his own immigration bill to a vote Wednesday on Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Tonight with Senior Editors at Large Joel Pollak and Rebecca Mansour.

Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview Thursday that conservatives are waiting to see how Paul Ryan will stop the illegal alien discharge petition.

House Speaker Paul Ryan has many tools to prevent a discharge petition from reaching the House floor — and even to prevent a clear majority of legislators from passing the planned amnesty. 

Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” host Tucker Carlson warned that “some” Republicans want to break their immigration pledge by passing a discharge petition that would force votes on immigration measures, including amnesty. Partial transcript as follows: Last year, congressional

House Speaker Paul Ryan offered President Donald Trump a plan that would let House legislators vote for an amnesty — and then vote against a bill containing Trump’s big three immigration reforms, sources tell Breitbart News.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of Fox News Radio’s “Benson and Harf,” House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) expressed opposition to a discharge petition that would force votes on immigration, saying that discharge petitions give away “the floor to the minority.” Ryan said,

Republican lawmakers from the failed “Never Trump” movement are spearheading the effort to force a vote in the House to give amnesty to millions of illegal aliens.

GOP Whip Rep. Steve Scalise is opposing the pro-amnesty discharge petition which is being pushed by almost 20 business-first Republicans.

In a House GOP conference meeting on Tuesday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy lit into an effort by some in the party to lead a discharge petition to force an amnesty bill to the floor of the House of Representatives.

The “discharge petition” effort by 17 GOP House legislators to pass a no-strings ‘DACA’ amnesty is either politically insane or high-risk, pre-election fakery, says pro-American immigration reformers. 

The House Republican leadership is seeking to stop a vote on an amnesty for more than a million illegal aliens.