5 things you should know about the new immigration bill

The new immigration reform bill is finally here—so what does it actually say?

See the full infographic after the jump.

Eight unlikely allies from the US Senate, including Republican Marco Rubio and Democrat Charles Schumer, released their proposed immigration reform bill on Tuesday. The bill includes massive changes to a system that pretty much everyone agrees has been broken for years.

So is it a good plan? Decide for yourself:

Here’s the full summary of the proposed bill.

  Outline of the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013

Infographic news sources: Reuters, The Daily Beast, NBC Latino, The Hill, Yahoo

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Sara McCaslin

Sara McCaslin is an editor and visual journalist for The Seattle Globalist. She worked for several daily midwest newspapers including The Flint Journal, The Columbia Missourian and The Boone County Journal before moving to Seattle. Sara trains the next generation of journalists through the Globalist Apprenticeship Program and is a graduate of the Journalism School at the University of Missouri.