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Immigration reform. The opening moves.

Hello again, I'm Orman Alney, and this is To the Poet from Public Radio International.

A daily look at the issues Americans care about most.

The time is not.

Now's the time.

President Obama whipped up a crowd yesterday in Las Vegas, commending both houses of Congress for taking

up immigration reform. But today's bipartisanship may or may not produce tomorrow's

compromise, and everybody agrees the devil is in the details.

If 11 million illegal residents get a path to citizenship, how many hurdles should they have

to jump? How long should it take? Well, they have to wait till the borders secure. When will

that be? We'll hear the pros and cons from a former head of the Immigration Service and others.

On reporters' notebook later on Gabrielle Giffords, Wayne LaPierre, and Gun Control.

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Program Fund. Hello again, Warren Allney, back with To the Point.

The president and a bipartisan group of senators sound like they might agree on immigration reform,

but the road to actual compromise could be long and stormy, and the Congress has yet to be heard from.

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