This week, leaders of the House Judiciary Committee Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), Rep. Elton Gallegly (R-CA), and Rep. Steve King (R-IA) are launching the GOP's approach to immigration for the 112th Congress with a series of Immigration Subcommittee hearings that use our nation's jobs and economic crisis to peddle...
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Leaders of top labor groups on Monday denounced the Republican immigration agenda as detrimental to American workers, citing a new report by the pro-immigration America's Voice that says the legalization of undocumented immigrants would be a boon to the US working class.
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House Republican leaders have placed a familiar cast of anti-immigrant characters in position to draft the chamber's strategy on immigration. Rather than change course and embrace comprehensive immigration reform -- the only proposal that would truly level the playing field, turn workers into taxpayers, and restore the rule of...
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Jan 14, 2011
The state Senate Republicans' immigration bill would cost Kentucky a net $40 million a year in court, prison and foster-care costs, according to a fiscal-impact statement issued Thursday by legislative staff.
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The Immigration Policy Center has released a comprehensive new guide to responding to the controversial Arizona-style immigration laws already popping up in states like Florida and Texas.
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Dec 27, 2010
Despite the harsh anti-immigration rhetoric from some Republicans on the campaign trail, the newly empowered GOP could be walking a tightrope when it actually comes to tackling the issue in the next Congress
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Our country and workforce have evolved over the past 35 years. When I first owned a fast-food restaurant in the l970s, and later in the 1980s, a lot of moms worked part time Monday through Friday during the lunch hours for additional income. Their children worked evenings and weekends...
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A new scoring from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on the House of Representatives' version of the DREAM Act, scheduled for a vote later today, finds "CBO and JCT estimate that enacting the bill would reduce deficits by about $2.2 billion over the 2011-2020 period. That result reflects a...
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Today, a group of DREAM act youth and supporters arrived on Capitol Hill with giant checks to give out to lawmakers. Based on the Congressional Budget Office's report late last week, passing the DREAM Act would create $2.3 billion over the next 10 years in revenue and slash the...
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Dec 6, 2010
If you take a serious look at our alternatives on immigration policy and dealing with the population of immigrants in the country illegally, we really do not have many choices. Mass deportation or policies designed to spark a mass exodus are clearly beyond the scope of reality.
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