The prospects seem better than ever that Congress may soon transform our nation's immigration laws. The Senate has passed a massive bill, S. 744, that (among many other measures) creates a Registered Provisional Immigrant status allowing the roughly 11 million undocumented foreign citizens in the United States to obtain work permits and travel documents as they meander along on a snails-pace trek to citizenship. Eschewing the Senate's 13-year path to citizenship, the House, now in recess, is divided against itself. Some representatives would opt for the Senate's formulation. Others want a 15-year path. Still others want no path, no way.
Regardless of what happens in Congress, 11 million people at some point will still seek legal recourse to come out of the shadows. As fictional TV and movie character, Richard Kimble, might have said, "It's hard out here for a fugitive."
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