Congress ends session without fixing immigration

With the Congress session now drawing to a close and the mid-term elections in November, its really hard now for any bills favoring legal immigration to pass this year. As a last minute PR effort, some House republicans brought a new bill to build a 700 mile fence along the U.S. Mexico border. These provisions already existed in the CIR bill but House republicans didn't want to tackle the immigration implications of building a fence and stalled the bill from passing for the last 2 months.

ImmigrationVoice has started a new fund-raiser campaign to prepare for the next session and has a target of $60,000 within the next three months. I only hope that this time they choose a bill which has chances of passing both houses without much controversy to get their legal immigration provisions through. Some good candidates include the SKIL bill which is mostly ready to be introduced in Congress but the sponsors are looking for an opportune moment. Unfortunatley for the thousands of legal immigrants stuck in the quagmire called retrogression; waiting for another year because of pure political reasons is something that they didn't expect from a country that likes to call itself the greatest nation on the planet.