By Thomas Ferraro
WASHINGTON, June 23 (Reuters) - Washington again may be the site of mass demonstrations of civil rights, this time by pressing the United States, led by the Republican of the House of representatives to pass a path to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants, a key Democrat said Sunday.
With the whole of the Senate to approve the Bill backed by the White House this week, Senator Charles Schumer, author of a bipartisan bill that would allow some 11 million immigrants to become U.S. citizens, said that expected House Speaker John Boehner will not soon have 'no option', but to let pass a project of Democratic-backed Immigration Bill.
However, if it's Boehner bottle Bill including eventual citizenship, Schumer said: "I could imagine to late summer or early fall... 1 million people on the Mall in Washington", demanding action.
"This has the potential of becoming the next movement most important civil rights," Schumer told "State of the Union," CNN evocation of memories of rallies in the 1960s that resulted in the fight against the historical discrimination and voting rights of African American law. Schumer is the third Democrat in the Senate.
Boehner's Republican party has said that it needs to support comprehensive immigration reform to make the party more attractive to Hispanics, the voting bloc more rapid growth in the United States.
However, Boehner, facing pressure from many of the more conservative members of the House, said last week that he would not bring any draft Immigration Bill to a vote unless the majority of Republicans back.
A Senate test vote is set for Monday, with the approval of the draft law provides that on Thursday.
Strong bipartisan support in the Senate was assured last week that became a $40 billion deal to double to some 40,000 the number of federal agents at the Mexico-United States border and get a crush of additional high-tech surveillance equipment, including aircraft, unmanned aircraft and radars.
Up to 70 or more of the 100 Senators must vote for the Bill, including all 52 Democrats, both independent and perhaps 16 or less 46 Republicans, according to aides for both sides.
BORDER CONTROL
With passage virtually assured, the Senate immigration battle is now essentially above with the focus to the House where it is not clear what will happen.
Many Republicans oppose the proposed path to citizenship, denouncing as "Amnesty" for breakers of the law that will attract more illegal immigrants.
Supports reject such talk, bearing in mind that the path of 13 years need undocumented immigrants pay taxes, learn English, keep a job and pass the criminal background checks.
They also argue that the route would bring undocumented shadows, where many now are abused and help make them a productive part of the American way of life.
Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, one of the most conservative members of Congress and a potential 2016 White House contender, said, "it will pass the Senate. ... But it is dead on arrival at the House."
Speaking on CNN, Paul said that many agree with him that there is evidence that reinforced border security has reduced illegal crossings until anyone can begin a path to citizenship.
Under the Senate Bill, there is no such requirement.
Republican Senator Mike Lee, as Paul, a favorite of the conservative Tea Party movement, said that his main problem with the Bill in the Senate is the sequence of events.
"The path to citizenship basically starts the first day. But it will take many years, if not decades to implement all these measures of border security, "Lee told Fox News Sunday."
The agreement to deploy additional border security was once of the Congressional Budget Office estimated that initial Bill would reduce illegal immigration by only 25 percent.
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, Member of the "gang of eight" who wrote the bipartisan bill, considered the highest security.
"Practically militarized border," Graham told Fox TV.
(Reporting by Thomas Ferraro; edited by Jackie Frank)
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