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Proponents of immigration reform celebrated a historic victory on Thursday when the Senate successfully passed a comprehensive reform bill by a clear majority. Groups and organizations representing people from all walks of life, all across the country, are speaking out and voicing their approval and support for the legislation.
Apparently undaunted by the perilous road ahead in the U.S. House of Representatives on the pending immigration reform bill, President Obama in his weekly radio address called for Congress to pass the bill, declaring that "the time for excuses is over."
As a whole, Republicans are still on the fence regarding immigration reform, but they seem to be taking one large stance against adding in gay couples to the debate, as Sen. Marco Rubio's comments Thursday helped demonstrate.
Despite the earlier indications that the Republican Party was looking to come around on immigration reform, the party's stance has grown shakier as Congress prepares to debate the new immigration proposal this summer.
As the immigration reform debate prepares to hit the stage in Congress, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., one of the lead voices on the push to pass immigration reform, said this week that contrary to popular belief, Republicans are largely in favor of immigration reform.
There are some mixed messages being sent from key Washington legislators regarding the chances that the compromise bill on immigration proposed by the "Gang of Eight" bipartisan senate panel will pass into law.
What was starting out as a strong road in favor of immigration reform has now started to deteriorate into lines in the sand being drawn on the issue, with conservative Republicans on one side and pro-immigration advocates on the other.
While the Senate voted down an amendment that would prevent undocumented immigrants from getting health care as part of immigration reform, President Obama planned to push the immigration agenda during a naturalization ceremony Monday.
Just as all seemed like smooth sailing on the immigration reform waters, the negotiations involving an immigration bill that would rework the nation's immigration laws seems like it has hit a snag with labor unions.
For politicians who have taken a side on immigration reform, it may as a relief for proponents on the issue that more Americans are starting to favor granting immigrants a path to citizenship, as a new survey shows.
Leading Republican lawmakers, moving to repair frayed relationships with Hispanic voters, on Tuesday put their weight behind comprehensive immigration reform efforts that will likely include a pathway to citizenship for undocumented foreigners.
With the debate on immigration reform rapidly gaining traction in Washington, proponents and opponents on both sides have been mobilizing to champion their respective efforts.
After the losses the Republicans suffered among Latinos in the November elections, GOP members has become more inclined to embrace immigration reform.
A deal on reforming immigration laws in a way that would provide a pathway to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants in the nation is close to being completed.
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