The White House: Republican Sen. John McCain

The White House Dept: Republican Sen. John McCain predicted Sunday that the administration's efforts would come up short if the White House went forward with a proposal to put the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. on a long pathway to citizenship. Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer, who met with Obama on Wednesday at the White House to discuss progress, urged his allies in the administration to give a bipartisan group of eight lawmakers the time to hammer out a deal on their own, according to Montreal Gazette. The general election forced some Republican lawmakers to reconsider their opposition to comprehensive immigration changes, clearing the way for the swift consensus that has emerged between the White House and bipartisan lawmakers in recent weeks and wASHINGTON - Republicans and Democrats alike predicted President Barack Obama would fail if he pushed forward with his own effort to overhaul the U.S. immigration system and urged the administration to hold off while lawmakers work on a bipartisan measure. Sharp shifts in the political landscape have put an immigration overhaul tantalizingly close. Hispanics made up 10 per cent of the electorate in the November election, and Obama won about 70 per cent of their votes, in part because of the conservative immigration positions staked out by Republicans during their presidential nominating contest. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.