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[00:00.10]BBC News with Nick Kelly.
[00:04.02]The United States Senate has passed a sweeping but contentious bill to reform America's immigration system.
[00:10.11]The bill, which is backed by President Obama, provides for a 13-year pathway to citizenship for more than 11 million people living illegally in the United States.
[00:18.96]Here's Jonny Dymond.
[00:21.00]In the shadows of the US economy, as cooks and gardeners, nannies and cleaners and in 100 other occupations, is a vast army living here illegally.
[00:30.33]Under legislation passed by the Senate, these millions would have a path to citizenship.
[00:35.47]Thirteen years long, dependent upon good behaviour and payment of backed taxes.
[00:40.83]At the same time the bill would see what one of its sponsors called a practical militarization of America's border with Mexico that was a critical part of the bargain that would strike.
[00:52.22]The bill now heads to the House of Representatives where agreement may be much more difficult to find.
[00:57.21]The authorities in the United States have indicted the man accused of carrying out the bomb attack on the Boston marathon on numerous criminal counts.