What is Said; What is Not Said | National Catholic Reporter

What is Said; What is Not Said | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: Two things about mentioning immigration reform. First, he is speaking to the choir - all but the most partisan Republican bishop are on board. Second, sadly there is not much chance of anything passing, given the current line-up of the next Congress.  The issue is dead and was never really alive.  Getting a bill passed in the Senate cost to much.  I would rather have the right bill, something less punitive, be filibustered and die in the Senate.  If that happened, the Latino vote would have turned out last week and we would not be talking about how immigration reform is not mentioned (because it is dead).