Top Senate Democrat Aims to ‘Go as Big as We Can’ on Immigration

A top Democrat is pushing colleagues to pursue all options to revamp the U.S. immigration system and offer a path to citizenship for undocumented individuals.

“We need to explore every legislative option and go as big as we can on immigration with the votes we’ve got,” Assistant Democratic Leader Patty Murray (Wash.) said in a statement Monday, adding that she’s “as committed as ever” to updating immigration laws.

Proposals to protect undocumented immigrants and overhaul the legal immigration system suffered procedural defeats in the Senate last year, while Democrats hit an impasse on their broader social spending and tax proposal ...