On January 16, 2013, Senator Patrick Leahy (D) of Vermont delivered remarks to the Georgetown University Law Center that covered a wide range of (Judiciary Committee) topics including immigration reform. The key immigration highlights included:
“I expect that the Judiciary Committee will devote most of our time this Spring working to pass comprehensive immigration reform. Few topics are more fundamental to who and what we are as a nation than immigration. Immigration throughout our history has been an ongoing source of renewal…We must find a way through the partisan gridlock to enact meaningful change, which should include a path for citizenship…Next month we will begin this national discussion in the full Senate Judiciary Committee with public hearings. Although I expect there will be different views on many pieces of the reform effort, I hope that in the end we can honor those who came before us from distant lands in search of freedom and opportunity.”
To read Senator Leahy’s full remarks, please click here.
“I expect that the Judiciary Committee will devote most of our time this Spring working to pass comprehensive immigration reform. Few topics are more fundamental to who and what we are as a nation than immigration. Immigration throughout our history has been an ongoing source of renewal…We must find a way through the partisan gridlock to enact meaningful change, which should include a path for citizenship…Next month we will begin this national discussion in the full Senate Judiciary Committee with public hearings. Although I expect there will be different views on many pieces of the reform effort, I hope that in the end we can honor those who came before us from distant lands in search of freedom and opportunity.”
To read Senator Leahy’s full remarks, please click here.
