For many months now the US Congress has been trying to push through a bill that will offer "comprehensive immigration reform," and offer some approach for dealing with the dozen-million or so illegal immigrants currently residing within American borders.

The process has been wrought with compromise after compromise and concession after concession, as politicians from both parties continue to add all sorts of amendments and stipulations to the bill, in order to ensure it will be truly "comprehensive" and appease everyone. As a result of this process, critics like Rudy Guliani say that the legislation no longer has any sort of central focus, and has instead simply become a "mess" of ideas and policies, some of which are so conflicting and contradictory almost anyone can find SOMETHING to oppose.

And now, as a result, the bill has evidently died. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pulled the bill from the table on Thursday, and the press seems to think it is unlikely there will be any further debate. It collapsed under its own weight.