Immigration's Legislative Gauntlet

摘要

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee has approved comprehensive immigration legislation. Happy news, though to get the bill through with Republican support, Democrats had to abandon an amendment that would have given gay and lesbian spouses of U.S. citizens the same immigration prospects as heterosexual spouses. Thus, basic equity was sacrificed for the presumably greater good of passing legislation to rationalize immigration laws and free some 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. from legal limbo. A Senate floor vote on the bill is expected in late June.