WASHINGTON D.C. – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) early this month has proposed that Congress draft an Immigration Reform Act of 2007 that recognizes the United States as a nation of immigrants and to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act.
The brief “sense of Congress” resolution
introduced by Sen. Reid Jan. 4 said Congress “should pass, and the President
should sign, legislation to recognize the heritage of the United States as a
nation of immigrants and to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to
provide for more effective border and employment enforcement, to prevent
illegal immigration, and to reform and rationalize avenues for legal
immigration.”
It was interpreted as a signal by the
Senate leader to the Democratic controlled Cong
ress to reintroduce a bill
similar to the comprehensive immigration reform bill that failed to win
approval in the last Congress.
The resolution said that the President
should also provide the avenues for l
egal immigration or ways for people
illegally in the US
to legalize their status.
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