2010: CIR DOA?

There are growing numbers of signs that comprehensive immigration reform is dead this year.

Eight senators sent a letter to President Obama demanding that he refrain from circumventing the will of Congress on immigration. The letter, signed by Senators Grassley, Vitter, Inhofe, Isakson, Chamblis, Bunning, Cochran, and Hatch, alleges some kind of conspiracy to allow undocumented immigrants to remain in the United States.  Now, CIR champion Representative Luis Gutierrez (D-Il) says that there are not enough Democratic votes for Congress to pass immigration reform this year.

Reformers have been hard at work for months — years, in fact.  Is there any more room for hope for reform of the U.S. immigration laws that the country so desparately needs?

KJ