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Thu Jun 13, 2013, 12:34 PM Jun 2013

Senate Rejects Border Security Change to Immigration Bill

By Kathleen Hunter - Jun 13, 2013
The U.S. Senate rejected a Republican proposal to immigration legislation that would prohibit undocumented immigrants from gaining legal status until the Department of Homeland Security could show it had “effective control” of the borders for six months.

The measure, offered by Senator Charles Grassley, was defeated on a 43-57 vote. It is the first of dozens of amendments proposed to a revision of immigration law to receive a vote on the Senate floor.

“This amendment is the first of many that will improve the bill and that will do what the authors of the bill say they want to do: Secure the border,” Grassley said. “As we read the details of the bill, it’s clear that the approach taken is legalize first, enforce later.”

The Senate bill would create a path to citizenship for about 11 million undocumented U.S. immigrants while tightening security at the border with Mexico.

Republicans including Florida Senator Marco Rubio, a co-sponsor of the bill, and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky have said the bill’s border security elements must be strengthened to win their votes. Republicans are concerned that without improvements to U.S. border security, the legislation would spur a wave of illegal immigration similar to one that followed the last major revision in 1986.

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-13/senate-rejects-border-security-change-to-immigration-bill.html

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