Immigration deal survives Senate threat
Sen. Robert
Menendez, a Cuban Jew, D-N.J., who
is married to Jill Jacobson, got 53 votes for his effort to delay
shifting U.S. immigration policy away from keeping families together
in favor of attracting more foreign workers.
The Menendez amendment would have allowed more than 800,000 people
who had applied for permanent legal status by the beginning of 2007
to obtain green cards based purely on their family connections — a
preference the bill ends for most relatives who got in line after
May 2005.
