Immigration Reform Alive?!

CNN is reporting that Senate leaders reached a deal Thursday on reviving a broad immigration bill that could provide millions of illegal immigrants a chance to become American citizens and said they’ll try to pass it before Memorial Day. The agreement brokered by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tennessee, and Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, breaks a political stalemate that has lingered for weeks while immigrants and their supporters held rallies, boycotts and protests to push for action. “We congratulate the Senate on reaching agreement, and we look forward to passage of a bill prior to Memorial Day,” said Dana Perino, deputy White House press secretary. Key to the agreement is who will be negotiating a compromise with the House, which in December passed an enforcement-only bill that would subject the estimated 11 million to 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States to felony charges as well as deportation. For the CNN story, click here.

KJ