Daily Border Bulletin: Jeb Bush: Pathway To Citizenship Not Needed For Immigration Reform, 5 Reasons Reform Likely, More

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Jeb Bush: Path to citizenship not needed: In a dissapointing development former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said Monday comprehensive immigration reform didn’t require a pathway to citizenship, a key plank of the bipartisan Gang of Eight proposal in the Senate.

Top 5 Reasons Why Immigration Reform May Pass: No one would blame supporters of immigration reform if they were pessimistic about the chances of getting a comprehensive bill passed this year. And yet, activists and politicians working on a bill are sounding increasingly confident — even cocky — about their chances. Here are five reasons that the prospects for immigration reform are looking a lot better than they were even a few weeks ago:

Border Is Secure So “Fix the Entire System”: The U.S. border is secure and it is time to move forward on comprehensive immigration overhaul, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told ABC News in an exclusive interview. “My belief is that you need to fix the entire system because, from my standpoint, one of the biggest draws of illegal traffic across the border is the demand for illegal labor,” she said Thursday.

Gang of 8 continue to work hard on immigration bill: Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said Sunday he was optimistic the Senate’s bipartisan work on immigration reform could pave the way to other agreements. In an interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Durbin said that despite frustration over deadlocked sequester talks, the Gang of 8 could be a model for bipartisan cooperation in the upper chamber.