The eight US senators responsible for crafting an overhaul of policy in regards to immigration in the United States are close to finalizing a deal that could result in the 11 million undocumented immigrants currently living in the country coming out of the shadows, according to one of those lawmakers yesterday. The leading Democrat in […]
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Over 500 people from a collective of women’s groups rallied at the Capitol on Monday to amplify the voices of women immigrants and to show that those voices are vital to any policy about immigration reform in the United States. Congress is being asked by advocates not to forget that female immigrants are often vital
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The Republican Party is going all out to embrace a comprehensive overhaul of the immigration laws in the United States. This move is part of an ongoing attempt to rebrand the party and to try to win over the Hispanic voters that helped President Obama to victory in last year’s election. The support for immigration
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As Congress and the White House attempt to reach an agreement on the first overhaul of US immigration laws for 25 years, one point of very simple consensus would seem to be that the United States’ crop producers need a pool of workers that are both reliable and legal. All Americans, in fact, are affected
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An array of brand new support groups are coming out of the shadows in a bid to help with the push toward immigration reform in the United States, with lawmakers preparing to put their bipartisan proposals forward over the course of the next couple of weeks. The first to declare support was the National Federation
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While there are numerous hurdles to overcome for immigration reform in the United States to take place, it is nonetheless a promising sign that there is a fair amount of support even from the more conservative members of Congress. The debate over US immigration reform might have been overwhelmed temporarily by the coverage of the
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On 11 March, St Clare’s Church, situated in Great Kills on Staten Island, saw around 100 people gather in order to support immigration reform together with the assistance of mayoral candidate and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn. A highly diverse group of Staten Island residents met at the forum to organize a march for immigration
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Officials in Washington DC are currently trying to work out the best plan for immigration reform to allow undocumented immigrants to be given a pathway to US citizenship and to secure the border. However, foreign nationals already living in the United States can take their own steps to increase chances of gaining naturalization. One immigrant,
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US immigration lawyers are warning that 2014’s entire quota of 65,000 H-1B ‘specialty occupation’ US visas could be reached within just one week at the start of next month. An employer in the United States that wants to employ a foreign worker within a ‘specialty occupation’ has to put in an application to USCIS (United
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Evangelical Christian leaders including a Southern Baptist have left a meeting with President Obama at the White House with their hopes raised as to the prospect of immigration reform taking place this year. Barrett Duke, a Southern Baptist policy specialist, and a number of Hispanic evangelicals were amongst a total of 14 religious leaders who
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Eight senators are attending private meetings each week, alternating between the offices of Republican Senator John McCain and Democratic Senator Charles Schumer, sipping water or soft drinks as they sit in a circle and debate issues such as border security and temporary workers. The ‘Gang of Eight’ is determined to prove to be the exception
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