House GOP launches secure-borders bill

By Susan Ferrechio

Published January 21, 2015 10:00am ET

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House GOP launches secure-borders bill — Rep. Mike McCaul, who wrote the bill, called it "the most significant and toughest border security bill ever set before Congress." (AP Photo) | Charles Dharapak

House Republicans are officially launching their immigration reform effort Wednesday, with a border security bill aimed at keeping unlawful immigrants from entering the United States.

The bill could become the first in a series of measures Republicans take up in what they have promised will be a piecemeal approach to immigration reform in the new GOP-majority Congress.

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