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BREAKING
Immigration Reform Effort Re-Emerges With New
Senate Bill
Three years after efforts by Congress to reform the immigration system went down in flames,
the issue is slowly re-emerging on the national stage, as two senators from the opposite sides of
the political aisle work on crafting another bill. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., chairman of the
Immigration Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. are set
to appear Thursday at the White House for a meeting with President Obama in which they are
expected to seek his guidance on charting a path forward. The reform effort blew up in 2007
after more than a year of work when Republican critics branded the effort as "amnesty" and the
tide of public opinion turned strongly against the bill. Graham, in fact, was booed at a Republican
gathering in his state in 2006 for his work on comprehensive reform with Ted Kennedy and John
McCain. Sen. McCain is conspicuously absent from the current talks...