U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Robert Goodlatte, a Virginia Republican, has now shown what it would look like if House Republicans seek to kill immigration reform while trying to evade blame for it.
Worse for Democrats, the GOP might not face electoral repercussions for killing reform in next year's midterms.
"The bills that House Republicans support may go nowhere," the Huffington Post's Elise Foley reported Goodlatte as saying at a town hall last week.