Senate Immigration Reform Bill Passes With Strong Majority

The Senate on Thursday approved the most ambitious overhaul of the nation's immigration system in a generation. The vote on the bill was 68 to 32, enough to overcome a Republican filibuster and to deliver, as its sponsors had hoped, a strong signal toMarco Rubio, who just barely managed to survive taking a sip of water on national television earlier this year, faces a new question: Can his 2016 ambitions survive the conservative backlash to his support for immigration Republican leaders in the U.S. House made clear there is one thing they intend to do with the comprehensive immigration reform passed with great pageantry by the Senate Thursday: Ignore it. "The House is not going to take up and vote on whatever the The Senate has passed a bill that will dramatically reshape the nation's immigration laws for the first time in a generation. The vote was 68-32, as 14

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