Senate To Debate Immigration Reform
Bipartisan measure faces a battle
By a wide margin, the Senate voted Thursday to formally begin debating an historic overhaul to the nation's immigration laws that would allow those currently residing in the United States without documentation a pathway to citizenship.
Senators voted 82 to 15 on a procedural question that essentially opened an immigration debate set to dominate the upper chamber through the Fourth of July holiday. A handful of Republicans joined with most Democrats in support of opening the debate over legislation crafted by a bipartisan group of senators known as the "Gang of Eight." Their legislation is regarded as the best chance to win comprehensive immigration reform since 2007, when a similar reform effort sputtered in Congress.
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