eVideo
Kanopy
How Democracy Works Now
Summary
Fall, 2004–Spring, 2005: Congressmen Kolbe and Flake's reward for their innovative 2003 guestworker bill: tough primary challenges in 2004, facing determined opponents who capitalize on Arizona anger over "amnesty for illegals." The two very different campaigns, both hot and colorful, leave the winners vowing to do something about immigration. Next winter, their staffers team up with staff for Kennedy, McCain, and Democrat Luis Gutierrez. Can they combine the best of earlier, competing bills into the first bipartisan, bicameral Comprehensive Immigration Reform ever introduced in the U.S. Congress? *Filmed in Arizona and Washington, D.C.*