Immigration Reform Not Looking Likely

Thu07Jun2007

Immigration Reform Not Looking Likely

16:20 H | Topics: Controversia - Immigration - Politics

If a test vote taken today in the US Senate is any indication, the country is a long way from comprehensive immigration reform. The current bipartisan compromise failed a test vote today. By a vote of 33-63, the Senate fell far short of the 60 votes that would have been needed to limit debate on the immigration measure and put it on a path to passage. The 49-48 vote just after midnight on making the temporary worker program itself temporary came two weeks after the Senate rejected an earlier attempt to end the program after five years.