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An emotional and intensely personal debate over immigration engulfed the Senate on Thursday, opening the first visible fractures among Democrats, even as supporters of the biggest overhaul of U.S. immigration law in two decades declared the momentum is on their side.
Republicans wrestled with family values and immigrants dying in the desert. Democrats struggled with low-wage competition against U.S. workers.
Few could resist telling their own family histories that inevitably included an immigrant arriving on U.S. shores, from Lithuania, Italy, Ireland or Russia.
An extraordinary bipartisan Senate coalition has emerged -- including Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who reversed her long-standing opposition -- behind legislation to offer a path to citizenship to 12 million illegal immigrants and at least 400,000 new migrants each year, along with tighter border controls.
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