Jewish groups welcomed an immigration bill that offers illegal immigrants a path to legal status. The bill the Senate Judiciary Committee referred to the full Senate on Wednesday considerably softens a version passed last year in the U.S. House of Representatives, which some had characterized as “enforcement only” because it didn’t include avenues for illegal immigrants to change their status.
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