Broad, bipartisan support for the Senate's passage of immigration reform

Immigration reform has only reached the halfway point in its journey to become law. But it took a hell of a lot for it to get here. The Senate passed a landmark immigration bill Thursday that would grant legal status to millions of undocumented immigrants.From left, Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) confer as the Senate Judiciary Committee meets on immigration reform on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 9. All three were in Congress in 1986, when the last A supermajority of senators passed a bipartisan immigration reform bill that would grant 11 million undocumented immigrants immediate legal status and a path to citizenship while sending $30 billion to the southern border to beef up securityHouse Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) tells Yahoo! News' Chris Moody he's concerned that the Senate's passage of a comprehensive

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