Immigration Bill passes the Senate Judiciary Committee

The immigration bill has crossed its first hurdle, it has cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee by a vote of 13-5 with the adoption of 141 amendments.    You can read the summary of the amendments here, and here.  Whether it will make it to the President’s desk and in what final form is anybody’s guess.  Its tough uphill climb has just begun, and right now we are just at the base camp.