Senate Immigration Reform Bill Passes With Strong Majority

The United States Senate approved a landmark immigration bill Thursday afternoon after lawmakers in Washington voted 68-to-32 in favor of the Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act of House Republicans do not appear to be feeling the heat to take up immigration reform, despite efforts to pressure the House to take up the bill that many House Republicans find unpalatable.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 Critics of the Democratic-led immigration rewrite bombarded Senate offices with thousands of phone calls, and advocates say those calls are keeping numerous wayward GOP Senators from joining the Democrats' The Senate has passed a

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