This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Monday, November 25th, 2013.

I'm Caleb Brown. Shifting immigration reform into a piecemeal process can allay many of the concerns of both sides in the debate and

possibly end with more of what both sides say they want, the coherent and legal

status for immigrant workers.

Alex Narasta, a policy analyst at the Cato Institute,

says it's not quite that simple.

So in late October, our Senator Marco Rubio,

who if you recall was one of the principal backers of the Senate immigration

reform bill that passed back in June, said that you know what if the House wants to

split it up into separate pieces then they should be a lot to do so because we

want to get something passed some kind of

reform passed and he was criticized by so many people who were supported as

of immigration reform basically saying that he jumped ship and that he became

anti really without any justification just because he was sort of adopting this House of Representatives

approach of wanting to peace me all bill.

And that idea being this is no longer comprehensive as a single piece of legislation it is literally

piecemeal yeah literally piecemeal chopping it up and five to seven

different pieces each piece having to do with one portion of the comprehensive

bill so one piece being border security,

one piece being legalization for the unauthorized immigrants,

one piece being a guest worker and other pieces.

So what's happened now?

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