Immigration Bills up for debate today
 

WASHINGTON - The Senate begins debate on an immigration bill today and a leading Republican says the debate may tie up the chamber for a while.

"It's got to go on for at least a couple of weeks to give everybody the opportunity in the Senate to feel like they've had their chance to offer amendments that they think would improve the bill," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (news, bio, voting record), R-Ky., said Sunday.

The bill would offer legal status to most of the nation's 12 million illegal immigrants while also toughening border security.

Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy (news, bio, voting record), the lead Democratic negotiator, said the bill would create "a tough but fair path to citizenship" for millions of immigrants.

"The bill isn't exactly the way I would have written it, but it is a strong compromise and the best chance we will have to finally fix this broken system," he said. "The price of inaction is too high."


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what I would like to find are the exact details of the bill itself and subject that to discussion. I was watching CNN yesterday and they outlined part of the bill being that immigrants would have to pay a large fee to be legalized if they have been here a certain legnth of time, background checks and go thru some other rigorous info gathering before they are given legal status..but unfortunately, I havent found 'that article' as of yet....any help on this will be appreciated! ;)