The sweeping plan, which includes a 13-year path to citizenship and guest worker programs, takes advantage of the changed political alignment of the U.S.WASHINGTON — After months of negotiations, a bipartisan group of eight senators is poised to offer a sweeping bill to rewrite the nation's immigration laws this week, taking advantage of a changed political alignment that, for the first time in nearly a generation, appears to have opened the way for comprehensive legislation.
Immigration Bill Would Be Largest Such Effort Ever Attempted
By Brian Bennett and Lisa Mascaro, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times
Mon, 04/15/2013 - 9:00pm
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