To: Rep. Kathy Castor (FL-14)

Rep. Castor: Support a discharge petition for comprehensive immigration reform

Representative Castor, please support a discharge petition for comprehensive immigration reform.

Why is this important?

House Speaker Boehner is not interested in putting immigration reform to a vote. However, there is a way to bypass Boehner and save immigration reform by introducing the Senate's bipartisan immigration reform bill, then using a discharge petition to force an up-or-down vote in the House. It only takes 218 votes to file a discharge petition—that's every Democrat in Congress and 17 Republicans. This is accomplishable.