Pro-reform Republicans are frantically trying to massage the language around immigration legislation, especially the phrase “pathway to citizenship,” which Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) disdains even as he endorses an eventual path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. But according to a GOP pollster, the citizenship fight is largely a figment of the Beltway’s imagination, generating little concern among Republican voters in focus groups.
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