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Article snippet: A fierce immigration fight among Republicans is threatening to derail the GOP farm bill, just hours before the legislation is scheduled to reach the House floor. The Freedom Caucus, a band of roughly 30 conservative hard-liners, claims to have enough votes to block the farm bill unless Republican leaders agree to schedule a vote on a separate immigration measure from Judiciary Chairman MORE (R-Va.). The “vast majority” of the caucus wants to vote on the Goodlatte bill before they agree to back the farm legislation, according to Freedom Caucus chairman MORE (R-N.C.). The push comes at a time when a group of moderate Republicans are moving ahead with a discharge petition aimed at forcing a series of immigration votes on the House floor. “We don’t have an agreement,” Meadows said Thursday. “We’ve been promised many, many months ago we would have a vote on Goodlatte. And we think it’s important that we have a vote on Goodlatte, and at this point we have not been able to convince any of our members to go from ‘no’ to ‘yes’ [on the farm bill]. … At this point there is no deal to be made.” But House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said he has already assured members of the Freedom Caucus that the Goodlatte legislation will reach the House floor in June. “I've already told them we're going to give them a vote on Goodlatte, so I don't understand the difficulty," McCarthy told reporters. As of Thursday evening, GOP leaders were still pushing ahead with a planne... Link to the full article to read more