House, Senate differences endanger immigration reform

The path to immigration reform in Congress has suddenly become much more complicated now that House lawmakers say they won’t accept the sweeping, comprehensive changes that the Senate wants.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., said House lawmakers instead will take a piecemeal approach to reforming the nation’s immigration laws, taking up individual bills that deal with border security and employment verification to the creation of a guest-worker program for Mexican farm laborers.