The Daily Caller
Feb. 12, 2013
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Monday said there is more energy behind the push for immigration reform now than there was during the 2007 reform attempt under the Bush administration.
During a conference call detailing the formation of the Bipartisan Policy Center Immigration Task Force — set to be co-chaired by Rice, former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry G. Cisneros, former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, and former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell — Rice suggested the 2007 reform effort failed in part because there was no gas left in the White House’s tank.
“First of all, it was closing in on the end of the administration,” she said. “Frankly, it had been a long seven years at that point. … I think the environment is better now. I think it was getting very late in the administration, and I think now we have some new energy behind the issue.”
Rice stressed the need to educate the American people on the issue, emphasizing that 24-hour news cycles often don’t tell the full story.
“I believe this issue goes to the heart of who we are as Americans,” she said.
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