Source:  THE HILL, 11/13/13

This article is the second of a two-part series on immigration.

Two Texas Republicans were about to take a leap. A big one.  Reps. John Carter and Sam Johnson had worked for more than four years to craft a bipartisan immigration overhaul, risking their political reputations to join with liberal Democrats on the kind of legislation that many conservatives reviled.

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