Once again the U.S. Senate today started deliberations on the Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill after a rare speech on domestic issues by President Bush on prime time TV last night. The main issue discussed is ofcourse illegal immigration, but there are pro-legal immigration provisions in the bill and Immigration Voice is working hard with law makers to include favorable amendments that will alleviate the labor certification backlog and the green card retrogression that mostly affect Indian and Chinese born professionals working in U.S. If these provisions have to be passed then the whole bill has to pass through the Senate, later to be followed by a compromise session with the House which itself passed a strict enforcement only bill last year which has no pro-legal provisions and makes all illegal immigrants felons instantly.
The legal immigrant community is watching the proceedings mostly on the sidelines and hopes that their less controversial provisions will get passed if the House and Senate can do a compromise bill.
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