Immigration Reform 2013 News: The Debate Heats Up As A Vote From The Senate Nears

Immigration reform 2013 news: The controversial topic and bill will hit the Senate soon and the Republican and Democratic parties weighed in on the Immigration reform 2013 news.

In order for the immigration reform 2013 news to become a passed bill, 60 votes must be approve of the bill. Right now, one Senator said that magic number hasn't been hit just yet in an update in immigration reform 2013 news.

"We don't currently have 60 votes identified in the Senate," U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., told Univision in an interview about the chances of the immigration bill passing. "We need to add more votes on the floor. That means that the community in your state, in every state, should be contacting your state's two U.S. senators saying that they want comprehensive immigration reform that they are going to judge their political future based on this vote. And if we do this, both in the Senate and, later, with the members of the House of Representatives, we can achieve the victory that we want."

As ABC News.com reported that Senator Sessions had one amendment proposed that would have restricted the number of new legal immigrants at 33 million. It was voted down 17-1.

Menendez said that there is still a lot of work ahead" regarding getting the votes in the Senate as well as the GOP-controlled House, according to the Latino Post.

"We want to push this bill forward with the most positive votes we can find, more than 60, the 60 we need to be able to pass it here in the Senate so we can put pressure on the House," Menendez said. "And the House depends on the Republicans who control the House, and the House speaker, Speaker Boehner, will have to decide how he will proceed. But I want to have a good vote in the Senate so we send the message that the Republicans and the Democrats are together in favor of immigration reform."

Rep. Steven King, R-Iowa, told CBS News recently that supporting immigration reform would not help the GOP make any inroads with Hispanic voters. He also said that President Obama's re-election was because of President Reagan's immigration Reform and Control Act, which he said granted millions of Hispanic immigrants' legal status.

"If the theory of those who believe they can reverse the trend of Hispanic vote, if their theory is correct," he said, "if they can provide amnesty and somebody's going to benefit from that, then they have to admit that Ronald Reagan's signature on the '86 amnesty act brought about Barack Obama's election."