"Every major policy issue has been re-solved," declared Charles Schumer, one of eight senators seeking to draft a bipartisan bill to reform America's immigration system. The "Gang of Eight", he continued, would unveil their proposal in days; it would putter through the Judiciary Committee this month, and reach the Senate floor in May. "We're on track," the Democrat concluded, in a television interview this week. If he is right, an issue that has dogged American politics for a generation, left 11m people in limbo and steadily undermined the Republican Party's prospects, is on the verge of resolution.
展开▼
