According to a new Pew Research poll, 75 percent of Americans think our immigration system either needs major changes or a complete redesign. From Pew: No other part of our government’s bureaucracy, including our tax system and health care system, is seen as more broken than our immigration system. It is viewed as almost uniquely [...]

Members of the Gang of Eight have drawn a clear line in the sand over a pathway to citizenship. Any bill that provides for legal status without an eventual pathway to citizenship will doom reform. From USA Today: McCain said proposals to grant a temporary legal status to the nation’s unauthorized immigrants, but not allow [...]

After months of bipartisan negotiations the Senate Gang of Eight has finally released their immigration reform bill. You can read the entire 844 pages of the bill here. The all encompassing bill covers a range of immigration, employment and border security issues. Some key components of the bill include 1) increased funding for border security, [...]

It would seem the American people really only fall into two camps when it comes to undocumented immigrants.  There is a small fraction who strongly oppose letting them stay in any way and the large majority who would support offering a pathway to citizenship. Some polls have found that when offered a range of choices, a [...]

I hope Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is going to have lots of bottled water on hand, because he is going to have a very dry mouth after doing more than the Full Ginsburg this Sunday. According to Rubio’s press secretary, the senator will be on Fox News Sunday, This Week, Meet The Press, Face the [...]

A new WSJ/NBC poll shows just how important the messaging around immigration reform is for getting the Republican base, and presumably Republican members of Congress, on board for any piece of legislation. A majority of Republicans oppose the general idea of a pathway to citizenship but overwhelmingly support it if they find out all the [...]

The immigration reform process is moving slower than many of its prime supporters expected. Initially, the hope was to have bipartisan immigration reform proposals released at the beginning of this week in both the Senate and House, which now seems unlikely. On Face the Nation, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said the best case scenario is that [...]

In both the Senate and the House bipartisan groups are very close to releasing draft immigration reform bills. It is possible we could see some preliminary legislative language as early as next week. In the Senate the Gang of Eight resolved a major sticking point about guest workers, which should allow the group to finish [...]

Americans overwhelmingly think undocumented immigrants currently in this country should be given a way to legally stay. According to a Pew Research poll, an incredible 71 percent think they should be granted some form of legal status, while only 27 percent oppose allowing them to stay. From Pew: The poll found, though, that opinions varied [...]

If you really just can’t wait to find out what President Obama is going to talk about in his State of the Union speech this evening, the best indications come from the First Lady’s guest list. Normally the President will refer to the guests during the speech to highlight a particular issue. Immigration should be [...]