Human Rights Watch said today in World Report 2014 that Congress should build on the progress made in 2013 and enact immigration reform early in the new year.

Last year in June, the Senate passed a bill that would create a path to citizenship for millions of unauthorized immigrants and allow for greater consideration of the right to family unity in deportation decisions. The bill would have better aligned immigration enforcement and detention practices with US human rights obligations, but it stalled in the House of Representatives.

“Immigration reform should be a top priority for US lawmakers in 2014,” said Alison Parker, US program director at Human Rights Watch. “Congress should seize the nationwide support for immigration reform to create a fairer, more effective, more humane system.”

Read more about Immigration policy here.