Comprehensive Immigration Reform does have a meaning, and what @zenvelo posted way up above is a good starting list.
In his follow-up response to that post, @Jaxk added some useful commentary.
However, I strongly disagree with @Jaxk in his analysis of the recent Obama Administration change in enforcement, and Romney’s (and his GOP bed-mates’) response to it. CIR in this guise (meaning don’t fix anything, wait for a fix that heals all wounds) is code not for Comprehensive Immigration Reform but for Contimual Immigration Reactionism. It is code for maintaining the status quo.
The Republican Party is now owned and run by corporatists. Corporate America wants NOTHING done about immigration, because it’s a source of cheap, easily exploited labor. The problem is that the corporatists may have very deep pockets, but they are very few in numbers. So to win elections, they stitch together a rag-tag coalition of immigrant haters, racists, Southern Supremacists, state’s righters, gay bashers, gun nuts, religious nuts, and—well, corporatists.
They wind up the base with demonization such as the Sodahead Post that @ragingloli shared, and then make sure there is always a poison pill attached to any bill that would actually interfere with the status quo. Dems are guilty of the same tactic to maintain their hold on the Latino and other immigrant sympathetic voting blocks. And so CIR meaning Continual Immigration Reactionism is what we get