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Comprehensive Reform Bill Wins Approval of Senate Committee After Same-Sex Measure Is Dropped

Wed, 22 May 2013 10:42:47 +0000

The "Gang of Eight" comprehensive immigration reform bill cleared an important obstacle Tuesday night when the Senate Judiciary Committee passed the plan -- without significant changes -- to the full ...

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Heritage Report Takes a Cheap Shot At Comprehensive Reform Bill

Sun, 19 May 2013 22:03:01 +0000

The Heritage Foundation, a Washington-based conservative think tank, released a report this month -- written by Jason Richwine and Robert Rector -- that projects a $6.3 trillion federal price tag for the comprehensive immigration reform plan Congress is considering.

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House Members OK a 15-Year Wait For Citizenship in Reform Plan

Sat, 18 May 2013 19:50:52 +0000

A bipartisan group of U.S. House members working on comprehensive immigration reform legislation has agreed on a 15-year path to citizenship for unauthorized immigrants, two years longer than the 13-year proposal in the Senate plan.

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Immigration Reform Bill Facing Amendment Challenges in Senate

Mon, 13 May 2013 10:34:48 +0000

The Gang of Eight's proposed comprehensive immigration reform bill has started its formal journey through Congress, and already there have been volleys of poison-pill amendments intended to derail the legislation as it goes through the Senate's committee mark-up process.

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Immigrant Remittances Recovering From Steep Recession Declines

Mon, 13 May 2013 10:13:06 +0000

One reliable sign that the U.S. economy is recovering from the Great Recession is the steady increase in immigrant remittances to their homelands over the last five years.

According to research released by the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF), a member of the Inter-American Development Bank Group, immigrant workers living in the United States are still trying to get back to the income levels they had before the recession took hold late in 2007, but remittances are stabilizing.

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Comprehensive Immigration Reform Proposal Ends the Diversity Lottery

Mon, 06 May 2013 07:15:58 +0000

One of the many contentious ideas in the proposed comprehensive immigration reform bill is a largely overlooked provision that eliminates the diversity visa lottery (popularly known as the green card lottery) in exchange for making more visas available to highly skilled, highly educated immigrants in the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, mathematics).

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Obama Telling Mexico President Comprehensive Reform Possible

Sat, 04 May 2013 10:10:48 +0000

President Obama is continuing to press his case for comprehensive immigration reform during his meetings with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto in Mexico City.

"I'm optimistic about us getting this done because it's the right thing to do. We've seen leaders from both parties indicate that now's the time to get comprehensive immigration reform done," Obama said at a joint press conference with Pena Nieto.

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Entrants to Green Card Lottery '14 Can Begin Checking Status Online

Thu, 02 May 2013 14:43:04 +0000

The U.S. State Department is allowing entrants to the 2014 Diversity Immigrant Visa program --popularly known as the green card lottery -- to begin checking their status online.

The entrant status check opened May 1, and those who have entered the lottery are reminded to keep their confirmation numbers, since the government might select more DV 2014 applicants later this year.

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Republicans' Paul Ryan Supporting Comprehensive Immigration Reform

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 07:23:51 +0000

You can add Paul Ryan to the list of prominent Republicans who has come out for comprehensive immigration reform.

Rep. Ryan, R-Wis., who was Mitt Romney's GOP running mate last year, supports the "Gang of Eight" reform efforts in Congress,...

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Marathon Bombings Bringing Calls For Action on Immigration Reform

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:40:09 +0000

The Boston Marathon bombings are bringing calls from the political right to delay comprehensive immigration reform and calls from the political right to speed it up.

The two suspects in the bombings, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, are ethnic Chechens who immigrated to the United States in 2002 after the government granted them asylum. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev became a U.S. citizen last year and his older brother had a green card.

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