An effort by House lawmakers to overhaul immigration policy, which seemed
all but dead for much of last year, is about to be revived and take center
stage in Congress, with a new push by House Republican leaders and a fresh
pitch by President Barack Obama in his State of the Union address Tuesday.
House GOP leaders are expected to release broad principles to guide the
chamber's immigration debate as soon as the coming week. They will
include a call to grant legal status to millions of people now in the
country illegally, people familiar with the plans say, a step that many
in the GOP oppose as a reward for people who broke U.S. law.
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