Comprehensive Immigration Reform introduced last week in the House

You may have missed it amidst all the news about the health care reform debacle, but quite a bit has happened in the past week about immigration reform. Here is a quick round up of what’s been going on on immigration.
It’s long been said that once health care reform was dealt with, immigration would be the next big issue to tackle. Folks have also predicted that the fight for immigration reform will be even more difficult than health care (hard to fathom). The Obama Administration had made promises to tackle the issue this year.
Representative Gutierrez introduced a comprehensive immigration reform bill last week in the House of Representatives.
Others are claiming that the bill is DOA (dead on arrival) because the House leaders are hesitant to take on such a controversial issue during an election year. The Dallas Morning News reports:

Last week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi quietly assured freshman Democrats and other vulnerable lawmakers that she won’t allow a floor debate on immigration unless the Senate acts first. Backbenchers are frustrated at being forced to cast politically delicate votes on issues like cap-and-trade, only to see the bills stall in the Senate.

USA Today caught flack for an article about immigrant students where it referred to them as “illegal students.” A campaign called USA Today Fail has been created to fight back.
Finally, a check out the Media Consortium’s blog The Diaspora for more on what’s happening with immigration reform.