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he U.S. Senate voted on Tuesday to begin debate and amendments on a historic immigration bill, burying a procedural roadblock that opponents regularly use to delay or even kill legislation.With November’s election results indicating broad support for updating the country’s immigration laws, even some senators who have expressed opposition to the Senate bill voted to allow the debate to go ahead.By a vote of 82-15, the Senate cleared the way for the long-anticipated debate that could extend through June.Earlier on Tuesday, President Barack Obama sought to inject momentum into the push for U.S. immigration reform.“If you genuinely believe we need to fix our broken immigration system, there’s no good reason to stand in the way of this bill,” Obama said at the White House just hours before the Senate staged its first vote on the measure.via Immigration bill clears early test vote; Obama calls for action |...

House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner said he expects an overhaul of immigration rules to become law by the end of the year, but that the Senate’s version “doesn’t go far enough” to secure the U.S. border with Mexico or enforce the proposed new system.“I’ve got real concerns about the Senate bill, especially in the area of border security and internal enforcement of the system. I’m concerned that it doesn’t go far enough,” Boehner, the top Republican in Congress, told ABC in an interview that aired on Tuesday.Boehner added that reforming the nation’s immigration system was his top legislative priority this year.via Boehner sees immigration bill by year’s end |...