Immigration Reform may not have been set to the back burner.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/15/bipartisan-house-group-nearing-agreement-on-immigration-blueprint/
http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/Politics/senate-considers-path-citizenship-immigrants-temporary-status/story?id=18737887

An equivilient gang of 8 bipartisan reps in the House of Representatives, who have been meeting for almost four years now, are finally coming together on a blueprint for immigration reform. This is critical since there is a Senate bipartisan committee who have been working diligently to try and get some sort of reform agreed upon. This recent publication about this Gang of 8 House Reps, gives me hope when looking forward to true immigration reform beyond the DREAM act. True reform requires both houses coming together and working across the aisle and through each house to agree.

My only major concern is how Tea Party extremists and nativists in the House will respond to this agreement in private committee. On the other hand, looking at how the House operates normally, basically party-line voting and the power structure, its not too "far out" for there to be agreement among the more moderate republicans and democrats. Fortunately the Democrats in the House only needs to pick up roughly 30 seats, we can hope that The Speaker can get those thirty votes.

I am fairly interested in the path to citizenship that is included for both the House of Representatives and the Senate. This legal description has the potential to help lay out fair or unfair reform for the 11 million undocumented workers in the United States today.