Ryan Lizza on Pulling Together the Immigration Bill

Senators McCain, Schumer, Rubio, Menendez and Durbin during a news conference on a comprehensive immigration reform framework in January

New Yorker staff writer Ryan Lizza gives a behind-the-scenes look at what it took to get the current immigration bill onto the Senate floor. In his article “Getting to Maybe,” in the June 24 issue of The New Yorker, he interviews members of the Gang of Eight, the bipartisan group of senators who crafted the bill and championed it.