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Originally Posted by bigdreamer2010
When you do it piece by piece you have less of an incentive to complete a "comprehensive" bill. This isnt happening over the course of a few months. There was a comprehensive bill in the senate in 2007 so you can say they are just picking up where they left off 6 years ago.
It's not only democrats that want a comprehensive bill which is obvious since half of the senators working on the bill are republicans. The only people calling for a piecemeal approach are some house republicans who happen to be the same ones that are against a pathway to citizenship.
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Being comprehensive improves urgency???? --- This is a mis-conception!
Some of the issues that are being added to CIR are themselves very controversial: LGBT, STEM visas, Ag temp workers, H1B visas, etc. When any of those is added to the CIR, it effectively reduces its chance of passage.
The right leverage for Legalization should be border security and E-verify. As long as border security and E-verify are in the bill, that is enough to trade for legalization.
Adding irrelevant stuff to CIR only complicates the entire issue and makes CIR more difficult to pass.