Title: Immigration hoops
Published: Ventura County Star
Date: June 10, 2007
About this cartoon: Congress, with a strong push from George W. Bush, has been wrestling with comprehensive immigration reform. But the competing political interests have made it all but impossible to craft any meaningful legislation that would actually get passed. The day this was drawn, a fragile compromise fell apart in the Senate, with bleak prospects for being resurrected and passed, despite the president's push and the general acknowledgement that immigration reform has to happen.