Immigration reform bill heads to full Senate
WASHINGTON – A sweeping bipartisan plan to overhaul the nation’s immigration system headed to the Senate floor after a key committee approved it Tuesday, but not before tilting the bill to the...
View ArticleTech Industry Pushes to Amend Immigration Bill
SAN FRANCISCO -- The technology industry got much of what it wanted in a bill that overhauls federal immigration law. But in the give-and-take of political bargaining, the legislation emerged with...
View ArticleUS immigration bill may force jobs to be shipped overseas, Silicon Valley...
SAN FRANCISCO: The technology industry got much of what it wanted in a bill that overhauls federal immigration law. But in the give-and-take of political bargaining, the legislation emerged with some...
View ArticleImmigration Reform: Stand Down IT, Lobbyists!
For all the numbers bouncing around the immigration reform debate -- the Senate bill is 844 pages!; it will cost trillions!; 11 million undocumenteds will have a path to citizenship! -- the most...
View ArticleBring undocumented out of the shadows
If you think elections don't matter, check out what happened in the Senate last week. A bipartisan group unveiled a path to citizenship for an estimated 11 million immigrants who are in this country...
View ArticleImmigration Bill Would Expand Dream Act To Dreamers Of All Ages
WASHINGTON -- Undocumented immigrants who entered the United States as children would be eligible to apply for a quicker path to citizenship, regardless of their current age, under the bill proposed...
View ArticleSenate immigration-reform bill draws fire, lobbyists
The Daily Briefing While many local governments are seeking new tax issues to fill budget gaps, there aren't any more than normal.... Buckeye Forum Podcast The Dispatch public affairs team talks...
View ArticleWill Immigration Reform Work for the U.S. Economy?
The debate over comprehensive immigration reform has the potential to be one of the defining moral moments of our time. In the ongoing struggle over what kind of country we want to be, immigration...
View ArticleSenators' immigration plan a step toward reform: Opinion
Posted: 01/28/2013 03:25:00 PM PST January 28, 2013 11:43 PM GMTUpdated: 01/28/2013 03:42:47 PM PST It is good news that a group of U.S. senators from both parties has agreed on a framework for...
View ArticleHarry Reid On Immigration: I'm Committed To Getting Bipartisan Plan 'Over...
WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) came out in support on Thursday of a bipartisan framework for immigration reform put out by the "gang of eight" earlier in the week. "I have...
View ArticleUPDATE 1-U.S. Senate group resolves key issues on immigration reform...
* Reform would establish new guest-worker program * Eight senators putting comprehensive agreement into bill * Deal reached between labor federation and business By Thomas Ferraro and Steve Holland...
View ArticleTightened border security
Play CBS News Video After months of painstaking negotiations punctuated by public disagreements among lawmakers and interest groups, a bipartisan group of senators working to craft a compromise on...
View ArticleTens of thousands at US immigration reform rallies
Share Twitter Ghana News plugins View Comments Tens of thousands of demonstrators have rallied across the US in a mass call for citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants. The co-ordinated...
View ArticleRepublicans Are Divided Over The GOP's Plan To Fix Immigration
Prager: Unfair to portray ‘Fox News as the right-wing equivalent of the left-wing MSNBC’ [AUDIO] Cornyn draws primary challenger Krauthammer gives ‘deeply flawed’ Rubio immigration plan his blessing...
View ArticleYes, Rubio and Obama Mostly Agree on Immigration. No, That Doesn’t Mean...
It’s true that Senator Marco Rubio’s stated principles for comprehensive immigration reform are quite similar to President Obama’s. It’s also true that when Rubio attacks the president over reform, as...
View ArticleImmigration Reform Is Bigger Than Our Borders
Like other Latino and immigrant advocates, the Latino Policy Forum has followed the immigration-related events of recent days with great interest, cheering at the possibility of a truly bipartisan...
View ArticleWho Stands Where on the Immigration Reform Deal
Congress' found its new willingness to tackle immigration reform took in mere hour late one Tuesday evening last November, but actually acting has has taken five months and counting. RELATED: The...
View ArticleNation’s Leading LGBT Advocacy Organizations Stand Firm for Immigration...
(Source: NCLR – National Center for Lesbian Rights) Nation's Leading LGBT Advocacy Organizations Stand Firm for Immigration Reform (Washington, D.C., May 1, 2013)-Following is a statement in response...
View ArticleImmigration deal in limbo as business, labor clash
The Senate's "Gang of Eight" is preparing to leave town with a deal on immigration reform in limbo, stalled by a fight between Big Labor and Big Business. On Thursday morning, it had appeared that a...
View ArticleNew Yorkers for Real Immigration Reform to Senate Gang of Eight: Make Reform...
(Source: NYIC - New York Immigration Coalition) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press Contact: Thanu Yakupitiyage, Main Phone: 212-627-2227 x235, E-mail: tyaku@thenyic.org New York City (Wednesday, February...
View ArticleWashington's immigration debate disconnected with reality
Recently, dozens of representatives from the business, religious and law enforcement communities convened in Washington to declare that comprehensive immigration reform must be the first piece of...
View ArticleNation’s leading LGBT advocacy organizations stand firm for immigration...
(Source: National Gay and Lesbian Task Force) Media Contacts: Inga Sarda-Sorensen The Task Force Phone: 202.641.5592 isorensen@TheTaskForce.org Erik Olvera NCLR Office: 415.392.6257, ext. 324 Mobile:...
View ArticleLuis Miranda, Obama's Former Hispanic Media Director, Recounts Experience As...
Luis Miranda is living proof of the power of immigration reform. The Obama administration’s former communications director for Hispanic media recounted his experience as an undocumented immigrant...
View ArticleMary Sanchez: GOP needs to make up its mind on immigration reform
Yet another member of the Bush family has demonstrated an uncanny ability to flinch on immigration. Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor has long advocated a path to citizenship for undocumented...
View ArticleHarry Reid On Immigration Reform: 'This Legislation Is Going To Pass' (VIDEO)
WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) predicted in an interview with ABC's "This Week" on Sunday that Congress will pass comprehensive immigration reform, despite opposition in the...
View ArticleGeorgia Billboard Tells Immigrants To Go To South Carolina
This Georgia group has a message for immigrants: Check out our neighbor! A billboard in Georgia’s Cherokee County encourages undocumented immigrants to move to South Carolina, home of a prominent...
View ArticleSenators reach agreement on immigration reform - Wire Politics - The...
WASHINGTON -- A bipartisan group of leading senators has reached agreement on the principles for a sweeping overhaul of the nation's immigration laws, including a path to citizenship for the 11...
View ArticleSenators reach agreement on immigration reform
A bipartisan group of leading senators has reached agreement on the principles for a sweeping overhaul of the nation's immigration laws, including a path to citizenship for the 11 million illegal...
View ArticleNELP Welcomes Senate Immigration Reform Bill (NELP - National Employment Law...
(Source: NELP - National Employment Law Project) National Employment Law Project For Immediate Release: April 18, 2013 Contact: Daniel Massey, daniel@berlinrosen.com, 646-200-5323 Emma Stieglitz,...
View ArticleSome California employers eagerly await immigration reform bill
Central Valley farmers, Southern California bankers and Silicon Valley executives have all struggled to find workers — and they say an outdated immigration policy has been to blame. They're all hoping...
View ArticleCompromise crucial to immigration reform
The apparent deal between labor and business on a guest worker program represents a significant milestone, indicating that comprehensive immigration reform could actually be enacted this year. But we...
View ArticleSenators pledge action on immigration reform
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Key Democratic and Republican senators are pledging to get a wide-ranging immigration bill through the Senate by summer even as they point to numerous pitfalls ahead. The group of...
View Article'Gang of Eight' announces bipartisan immigration bill
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of senators presented President Barack Obama on Tuesday with a sweeping immigration reform bill that creates a path to citizenship for 11 million undocumented...
View ArticleRuben Navarrette Jr.: The immigration reform shuffle
Recently, dozens of representatives from the business, religious and law enforcement communities convened in Washington to declare that comprehensive immigration reform must be the first piece of...
View ArticleNavarrette: Immigration reform shuffle
Recently, dozens of representatives from the business, religious and law enforcement communities convened in Washington to declare that comprehensive immigration reform must be the first piece of...
View ArticleBig immigration reform bill, big boost to US economy? Meh
An immigration reform plan just passed by the US Senate would affect the US economy in complex but largely positive ways. That’s the view of many mainstream economists, including Congress’s own...
View ArticleObama welcomes 'compromise' put forward in immigration reform bill
Barack Obama has welcomed proposed legislation to overhaul the US immigration system, saying it is consistent with his hopes for legalising an estimated 11m undocumented immigrants. Earlier, the...
View ArticlePaths to immigration reform will be bumpy
Story Highlights President Obama and bipartisan group of senators announced immigration plansObstacles to reform include securing the border, path to citizenship and worker visasBill must satisfy...
View ArticleThese Three Fights Could Destroy Immigration Reform
White House Offers Religious Groups A Way Out On Contraception Former NRA Prez: Yes, We've Flip-Flopped On Background Checks Senate Democrats Achieve 60 Votes For Violence Against Women Act It Turns...
View ArticleImmigration Reform: Guest Worker Program Considered As Part Of Deal
WASHINGTON -- As lawmakers on Capitol Hill try to hammer out a comprehensive immigration package, business and labor groups are trying to settle what's historically been a contentious piece of the...
View ArticleObama's Votes On Immigration Reform In 2007 Show Issue's Political Complexity
WASHINGTON -- As a junior senator from Illinois, Barack Obama played only a minor role in the 2007 battle for immigration reform, but the experience informs his approach to the current debate and...
View ArticleWant Smarter Immigration Enforcement? Start at the Workplace, Not the Border
The immigration bill that solidly cleared the Senate is a strong step forward in comprehensive reform. I'll let those with greater imaginations than I contemplate the path forward in the House. Here,...
View ArticleA Few Thoughts on Immigration Reform
Here are a few observations on the new immigration reform proposal, with an emphasis on a part that I think is particularly important and largely overlooked given the emphasis on citizenship: the...
View ArticleObama To Lobby For Immigration Plan Amid Citizenship Debate
* President to tout economic benefits to CEOs, unions * Republicans soften stance after rebuke by Hispanic voters * House panel to take up immigration on Tuesday By Matt Spetalnick and Richard Cowan...
View ArticleCould this be the year for immigration reform? activists say yes
By Gary Martin | March 30, 2013 Comments (0) E-mail Print Tweet Page 1 of 1 WASHINGTON - A Republican Party in desperate search for relevance to Latino voters. An expanded Democratic advantage in the...
View ArticleLIUNA Applauds Bipartisan Immigration Reform, Urges Full Measures to Combat...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Terry O'Sullivan, General President of LIUNA - the Laborers' International Union of North America – issued the following statement on bipartisan...
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