"Arizona Sen.
John McCain's involvement in an 2007 effort to comprehensively reform the country's immigration system almost cost him his chance to be the Republican party's presidential nominee.
Five years later, McCain is one of eight Senators — four Democrats, four Republicans — leading the charge for an immigration plan that includes among others things, a path to citizenship for those people in the country illegally."*
*Read more from Chris Cillizza/ Washington Post:
www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/01/28/why-republicans-want-immigration-reform-in-1-chart/
