Why is Washington at a standstill over immigration reform? Dealing with immigration is harder than a week-old bagel. Rewriting immigration laws requires the kind of bipartisan cooperation that remains elusive inside the Beltway.
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The list of business and industry organizations that oppose federally mandated E-Verify, the federal electronic employee verification program, continues to grow. In a conference call hosted on Tuesday by the National Immigration Forum, the Associated Industries of Florida agreed that mandatory E-Verify as defined in Rep. Lamar Smith's...
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Illegal immigration from Mexico to the United States has fallen precipitously in the last decade. Even though that statistic isn't brand new, this morning The New York Times reports: "Douglas S. Massey, co-director of the Mexican Migration Project at Princeton said his research showed that interest in heading to...
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My family has long been making pies and jam out of the divine purple raspberry, a cross between the better known red and black raspberry families. The purple raspberry is a delectable mixture of tart and sweet, and purple raspberry pie is literally my favorite food in the...
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When an award-winning journalist recently revealed he's an illegal immigrant, two of the key players in his tale turned out to be educators who helped keep his secret. It's the kind of story teachers and principals scattered across the country know well.
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Jul 6, 2011
A mandatory E-Verify system for employers to check the immigration status of workers would have a negative economic impact on businesses in the agriculture, hospitality and manufacturing sectors, officials from those industries said Tuesday. Opposition to the mandatory E-Verify program comes one week after President Barack Obama said...
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Rep. Luis Gutierrez called last week for President Barack Obama to stop deporting undocumented young people, urging him to say, "I'm not going to deport another DREAM kid." Gutierrez (D-Ill.), a popular Latino congressman from the president's home state, is pushing for him to halt the deportation of young...
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Democrats hoping to regain the majority in the House in 2012 might get a strong head start in California, where voters have handed the authority for drawing political boundaries to an independent citizens' commission. Analysts studying the panel's work are predicting that three to five seats now in Republican...
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As the Georgia legislative session wound down earlier this year, state Rep. Matt Ramsey, the author of a controversial immigration bill that is considered one of the nation's strictest, held consultations with a man who is a fixture in the Capitol hallways. His name is D.A. King.
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As America celebrate its independence on July 4, prominent Christian leaders, including heavy-weight evangelicals, are calling on Congress to take action on immigration reform. Faith Leaders for Immigration Reform has released a list of statements made by Christian and Jewish leaders in support of immigration reform by U.S. lawmakers.
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