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Friday, April 19, 2013

Senate Immigration bill introduced and reactions

The text of the bill is available here:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/136415306/Border-Security-Economic-Opportunity-and-Immigration-Modernization-Act-of-2013#download

The Washington Post lays out key provisions of the bill:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/high-hurdles-on-path-to-citizenship-in-senates-immigration-proposal/2013/04/17/a2c8e5a0-a773-11e2-a8e2-5b98cb59187f_story.html

Marco Rubio continues to take a lead in promoting the bill, particularly to conservatives:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/18/us-usa-immigration-congress-idUSBRE93H1EN20130418

Senate majority leader Harry Reid has also endorsed the bill:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/17/us-usa-immigration-congress-idUSBRE93G0ZW20130417

An editorial in the Los Angeles Times calls the bill a "breakthrough": http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-immigration-reform-senate-bill-20130418,0,7752571.story

NBC news has compiled reactions to the bill:
http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/17/17796995-reactions-abound-following-the-filing-of-senate-immigration-bill?lite

Elise Foley of the Huffington Post says the bill has much that advocates like:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/17/gang-of-8-bill-immigration_n_3104200.html

Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post comments on Rubios roll out of the bill:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2013/04/18/how-did-rubios-immigration-rollout-go/


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