McConnell: The Senate will probably not vote on the Dreamers Bill

The House Democrats' DREAM law "will probably not be voted on in the Senate," Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Wednesday.

The rejection by the Kentucky Republican of the law that would give immigrant immigrant children to the United States immigrant to the United States to be a US citizen is only the latest example of the fact that the Republican majority Senate has dismissed the legislation adopted by the House. McConnell said he would like to see a broader approach to immigration before the Senate examines it.

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The House passed on Wednesday its bill, the most important immigration bill, to pass a House of Congress in six years.

"Dreamers have a nice case, there are circumstances in which I and others would like to support that, but we need to do more than that, you know that there are real solutions on the side of legal immigration and the illegal immigration side that need to be addressed, "said McConnell on Fox News Radio. "There is a perfectly legitimate case for dreamers … but I think we need to do more than that, and that's the context in which I would deal with this issue in the Senate."

The Senate failed to reach an agreement on immigration last year after a short debate. Most Republicans opposed a bill helping Dreamers and providing for a $ 25 billion border security and insufficient support for President Donald Trump's immigration plan. Since the adoption of a comprehensive bill in 2013 that the House ignored, the Senate has stammered in its debates on immigration, despite a broad consensus that the Congress had not been able to solve the problem.

McConnell blamed the Democrats for not acting when they had total control of the government in 2009-2010, although the last two years of total Republican rule have not been more successful. The administration also opposes the Democrats bill in the House.

"Immigration is an area in which there is bipartisan responsibility in case of inaction," McConnell said.

The majority leader also refused to adhere to bills passed by the House regarding ethics and bribery and firearms background checks, which led to a campaign bicameral democracy against his "legislative cemetery".