Immigration Reform...Keep Your Prayers Up!

Democrats.org has a post called "Comprehensive Immigration Reform May Be Coming" that's worth checking out...

From the Washington Post article that detailed policies that may change with the Democrats in power in Congress:

Washington may sink into partisan fighting in the next two years. But there is one piece of proposed legislation that will have a better chance of becoming law after Republicans surrender control of the House.
"The chances of comprehensive immigration reform being enacted in the next Congress go up significantly," said Frank Sharry, executive director of the National Immigration Forum, a pro-immigration lobby group in Washington. "It might be one of the few issues in the next Congress that could see the light of day on a bipartisan basis."

Despite support from Mr. Bush, Republican resistance in the House managed to block a broad immigration reform package passed by the Senate in the summer. The bill included tougher border security provisions, a new immigrant guest-worker program and a path for millions of illegal immigrants to attain legal status.

Instead, the House passed a bill to build a 700-mile fence along the Mexican border, a proposal that passed the Senate in September and was signed into law last month by Mr. Bush. The resistance by a hard-core group of Republicans opposed to easing restrictions to immigration spread as opposition to illegal immigration became a rallying force in Republican campaigns throughout the summer.

But the anti-immigrant fervor did not seem to work on Tuesday. Many Republicans who campaigned on a hard anti-immigrant platform lost.