For a brief shining moment, there appeared a glimmer of hope that our courageous and wise leaders in Washington, D.C., would muster the will to patch up our cracked immigration system. After years of lip service from both parties, only to see the effort wilt in the glaring political sun, the momentum seemed to favor reform succeeding this year. Republicans feeling the sting of losing nearly three-quarters of the Latino vote in last year’s presidential election seemed more willing to create a pathway to legal status for 11 million or so illegal immigrants living and working in the U.S. A bipartisan Senate coalition, fronted by rising GOP star Marco Rubio of Florida, pushed an immigration plan through by a 68-32 margin, calling for an improved guest worker program, an easier road to citizenship and greatly increased border security.