Morning Examiner: Middle ground emerging on immigration

House Republicans are still mum about when they will unveil their conference’s immigration reform plan, but after this week it has become exceedingly clear that whatever policy they do come up with will be vastly different than the amnesty-for-border-enforcement scheme endorsed by President Obama and Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.

“The people that came here illegally knowingly — I don’t think they should have a path to citizenship,” Rep. Raul Labrador, R-Idaho, said on NPR’s Morning Edition yesterday. “If you knowingly violated our law, you violated our sovereignty, I think we should normalize your status but we should not give you a pathway to citizenship.”