Immigration Update

Here is a quick update from Washington D.C. to let you know what is going on with immigration. As you know, the immigration bill has come back to life and Senator Reid will bring back the bill to the Senate floor as early as this week.

In interesting change is that both chambers are thinking of breaking up the bill into smaller parts, in two very distinctive ways.

a) In the Senate, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) will use a parliamentary procedure, nicknamed clay pigeon, which will eventually break up the bill and make Senators vote on each of the 22 proposals independently. (see article below for more information)

b) In the House, Democrats are saying they might break up the Senate immigration bill into a series of smaller bills. This might make it easier to pass issues like border security, high tech and agriculture worker programs but make it tougher to pass other issues such as what to do with the 12 million illegal workers in the U.S.