Immigration
Conservative Economists Support Immigration Bill
Over 100 conservative economists said they would call on the members of Congress to approve the immigration reform bill, highlighting the many possible economic benefits. On Thursday, the American Action Forum, will release a letter, which is the latest attempt from conservative economists, who have seen a division in their ranks on the overhaul immigration [...]
Another Immigration Union Speaks Out on Immigration Bill
The head of one immigration union that represents over 12,000 federal immigration workers said on Monday that his group would join a growing list of organizations that are similar and are opposed to the immigration legislation that was drafted by eight bipartisan lawmakers and is currently being considered by Congress. The organization the National Citizenship [...]
Immigration Legislation Still not certain
After many years of false starts and sudden stops, Washington finally seems to be on a path to rewrite the immigration laws in the United States. The Group of Eight Senators is scheduled to hit the floor in the Senate in June. In the House, a bipartisan group this week agreed on a large bill [...]
Study: Border Control not as good we think
According to a new independent study the yardstick that is used in the new immigration reform bill to determine how good Border Control is, might produce a picture that is too rosy of how well the U.S. Border Patrol is performing their task of cutting down on the number of illegal crossings. In the report, [...]
Napolitano Says New Immigration Proposal Makes U.S. More Secure
Amidst calls from Republicans to stop immigration reform following the Boston bombings last week, Janet Napolitano, the Secretary of Homeland Security said this week that the new immigration reform proposal would help the national security. Napolitano said the proposal does not detract from the security of the U.S. but rather helps to strengthen it through [...]
Republican Authors of Immigration Reform Defend Proposal
The GOP co-authors of the immigration reform effort that is bipartisan, denounced suggestions from conservatives on Friday that the Boston marathon bombings were evidence that the U.S. should stop the proposed sweeping overhaul of its immigration laws. On Friday, federal authorities announced that two brothers were suspected in the Boston bombings. The brothers are originally [...]
Group of Eight Unveils Immigration Reform Proposal
Faith based and civil liberties groups have already started to call part of the sweeping overhaul proposal for immigration too stringent. The groups claim the law makes the march to citizenship too difficult for some undocumented immigrants. On Tuesday afternoon, President Barack Obama made his first comments on the immigration proposal calling it a clear [...]
Growers and Farm Workers Labor Unions Reach Agreement on “Blue Card”
On Friday, an agreement between growers and farm workers labor unions was reached on one of the major and last components of the sweeping reform bill for immigration being currently drafted in the U.S. Senate. The new agreement would set up visas, wages and the working conditions for the many migrant agricultural workers used by [...]
Immigration Law a Personal Cause for People in Capitol Rally
Thousands of immigrants and their supporters gathered in Washington Wednesday to show their support for proposals that would give a pathway for citizenship for the 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States. They said that they want to get papers to make their stay in the nation legal but nobody is helping them out. [...]
Senators Expect Immigration Legislation this week
Legislation that will overhaul immigration in the U.S. will likely be ready by week’s end, said two of the senior senators working on the bill. Charles Schumer the Democratic Senator from New York told reporters that senators in the Group of Eight, the bipartisan group of four Republicans and four Democrats, had resolved the major [...]
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