Republicans should support immigration reform

So Republican House of Representatives leadership is outraged by President Obama’s executive action on immigration reform, claiming “this is not the way democracy is supposed to work.”

But democracy is supposed to work by majority rule and the real outrage is that Republican leadership, including our Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers, has never allowed a vote of the full House on the bipartisan immigration bill passed 17 months ago by the Senate, even though the bill has long had enough House votes to pass.

This bill, that Obama supports, is more substantial than his executive action and r...