US plots path to citizenship for illegal immigrants
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- Published on Friday, 29 March 2013 06:00
- Written by Duncan Tucker
The 11 million undocumented workers residing in the United States – nearly 60 percent of whom are Mexican – could gain citizenship within 13 years under reforms to immigration law being prepared by a bipartisan group of eight U.S. senators.
The Senate timeline for a path to citizenship, which has yet to be finalized, would match the overall wait proposed by the Barack Obama administration, but would be structured differently.