White House leaders are seeking to push Republicans to a consensus on immigration. Normally, this wouldn't be a problem. But the difficulty that the GOP has is how to offer citizenship to young immigrants that came to the U.S illegally when they were children.

Many want to forgive the trespass. Conservatives, however, don’t want to make a special way for minors to become citizens as they think that such a move would be granting them amnesty.

But Republicans are racing time as they try to defuse a threatening civil war in the GOP that would damage the party. They want to keep everything under their control for the elections in November.

On Thursday morning, Republicans planned a meeting on this topic.

Split

Paul Ryan is the 54^th Speaker. On Wednesday, GOP lawmakers announced that he will present ideas for resolving the Republicans’ split. This would damage the party with moderate and Hispanic voters.

However, Republican Carlos Curbelo is one of the leaders who threatened to force votes if a deal with conservatives can’t be made. He said that there is only a loose consensus at the moment. Mark Meadows, a Republican, said that Ryan is going to present concepts.

No Exemptions

Republicans Jeff Denham and Carlos Curbelo, and other moderates only need two more signatures from the GOP. The petition is planned to require immigration votes if all Democrats sign in. But if a meeting on Thursday doesn’t result in an accord, they could reach that mark very soon.

Republican Scott Perry is a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus. He said that there is a rule of law in the United States and that nobody is going to get special treatment. Allowing immigrants, no matter how old they were, who came to the U.S. illegally opens too many doors for others to slip through the legal cracks.

Liberal Legislation

However, conservatives and GOP leaders state that the votes the moderates want to force are probably going to produce a very liberal legislation. They expect all Democrats to join a few Republicans to push it through the White House.

Questions from the American People:

• How will allowing minor immigrants to become citizens encourage others to bring their children here illegally?
• Should the U.S. punish minors for the illegal actions of their parents? What should we do with minor, illegal immigrants?