Immigration reform bill expected from U.S. senators this week

WASHINGTON, D.C.—A raucous public debate over the nation's flawed immigration system is set to begin in earnest this week as senators finalize a bipartisan bill to secure the border, allow tens of thousands of foreign workers into the country and grant eventual citizenship to the estimated 11 million people living here illegally.

Already negotiators are cautioning of struggles ahead for an issue that's defied resolution for years. An immigration deal came close on the Senate floor in 2007 but collapsed amid interest group bickering and an angry public backlash.

"There will be a great deal of unhappiness about this proposal because everybody didn't get what they wanted," Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., a leader of the eight senators negotiating the legislation, said Sunday. "There are entrenched positions on both sides of this issue."

"There's a long road," said Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., appearing alongside McCain on CBS' "Face the Nation." ''There are people on both sides who are against this bill, and they will be able to shoot at it."

Schumer, McCain and their "Gang of Eight" already missed a self-imposed deadline to have their bill ready in March, but Schumer said he hopes that this week, it will happen.

"All of us have said that there will be no agreement until the eight of us agree to a big, specific bill, but hopefully we can get that done by the end of the week," said Schumer.

Schumer, McCain and other negotiators are trying to avoid mistakes of the past.

A painstaking deal reached a week ago knit together traditional enemies, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO, in an accord over a new low-skilled worker program. The proposal would allow up to 200,000 workers a year into the county to fill jobs in construction, hospitality, nursing homes and other areas where employers say they have a difficult time hiring Americans.

The negotiators also have pledged to move the bill through the Senate Judiciary Committee and onto the floor according to what's known in Senate jargon as "regular order," trying to head off complaints from conservatives that the legislation is being rammed through.

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Post the link to your source in the future, please.

oh the link usually posted up automatically, but thanks I didn't know

Doubt it, I heard they ran into some things so it'll probably be delayed

Yea, turns out nothing was resolved...a week ago supposedly everything was resolved...lol...

I predict Senate will have a bill this week.

I'm with you. I believe in them

they said this last week

wait that was the house

Check out the CNN homepage quick before they change it. SHITS about to go down big time with immigration for sure! The water is starting to simmer. I don't think there is any political force remaining in this political system to bring CIR down. We were fighting for DA just few months ago and we're about to get CIR. Couldn't ask for anything more from God! Thanks God! I am just super excited to start discussing the votes on DAP as they go down! I predict a Senate passage first and House passage during the late night hours of a quiet summer day! I can literally feel my EAD turning Green as we speak.

Yea!!! Lets do this!!!

Love your enthusiasm.