chief economist of the tax foundation and mike coleman washington bureau chief of the albuquerque journal new mexico's largest newspaper thanks for joining i thank you it's really so. beginning of a has supposedly introduced a bipartisan bill. mike can you please tell us who are the biggest opponents per ponette and is this truly a bipartisan proposal it truly is a by part of some proposal the gang of eight is comprised of four republicans four democrats some other republicans including senator john mccain senator marco rubio from florida on the democratic side you've got the majority whip dick durbin and you've got senator menendez from from new jersey and while that effort is bipartisan there is certainly a large contingent relatively large contingent of conservatives more hardcore conservatives who oppose it for what they call amnesty or the so-called path to citizenship for some eleven million illegal people who are already living here in the united states so it's bipartisan but it faces a long hot summer ahead i think on the hill and it's going to play well one of the tradeoffs with amnesty is. a

chief economist of the tax foundation and my coleman washington bureau chief of the albuquerque journal new mexico's largest newspaper thanks for joining i thank you it's really so. the gang of eight has supposedly introduced a bipartisan bill. mike can you please tell us who are the biggest opponents per poena and is this truly a bipartisan proposal it truly is a by part of some proposal the gang of eight is comprised of four republicans four democrats some other republicans including senator john mccain senator marco rubio from florida on the democratic side you've got the majority whip dick durbin. you've got senator menendez from from new jersey and while that effort is bipartisan there is certainly a large contingent relatively large contingent of conservatives more hardcore conservatives who oppose it for what they call amnesty or the so-called path to citizenship for some eleven million illegal people who are already living here in the united states so it's bipartisan but it faces a long hot summer ahead i think on the hill and it's going to play well one of the tradeoffs with amnesty is. a t