A crowd of people gathered on Capitol Hill around a makeshift outdoor altar early yesterday morning, praying that the senators who were attending a nearby hearing would be willing to reform a failure of an immigration system that they claim has been causing millions of people to spend years “living in the shadows” and facing […]
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Both President Obama and the bipartisan Senate’s plans for immigration reform have shown that the policies favored by both the Democrats and the Republicans may not be quite so far apart as politics would sometimes want everyone to believe. Despite some disagreements between lawmakers as to the ideal path on which to go forward, the
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Many big US manufacturing firms such as Cummins and Caterpillar are finding it increasingly difficult to recruit and then employ engineers and researchers in order to be able to stay competitive in the worldwide market. With the Obama administration having immigration reform as one of its top priorities, companies from Silicon Valley to the heartland
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President Barack Obama is set to give his opponents on Capitol Hill notice tonight that he has every intention of getting what he wants over the course of his second term and delivering on his promises to increase growth and to take on the controversial issues such as immigration, climate change and gun control. The
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Marco Rubio is taking center stage as the Republican Party desperately tries to find a new leader who will not leave them a laughing stock at the next election. It is almost 100 days since the re-election of President Barack Obama and in that time the Florida senator has made a series of concrete and
Second generation immigrants are better off than their parents, owning more homes, earning more money and acquiring more college degrees, a report that was released yesterday claims. The average household income for the children of immigrants who were actually born in the United States is $58,100, a noticeable improvement over the $45,800 generated by their
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The Republican response to the State of the Union address by President Barack Obama is to be delivered by Florida Senator Marco Rubio next Tuesday. Rubio’s selection was announced yesterday by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell from Kentucky and House Speaker John Boehner from Ohio. Boehner stated that Marco Rubio was one of the party’s
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With the US government getting to work on the hot issue of immigration reform, activists for human rights are urging the Obama administration to make sure that the basic human rights of non-citizens are upheld when these decisions are made. Human Rights Watch says that there are four crucial principles that need to be taken
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Republican members of the House of Representatives started their first hearing on the issue of immigration yesterday with a stated goal of harmonizing the rule of law and the principles of humanity. A wave of proposals for comprehensive immigration reform in the United States from President Barack Obama as well as a bipartisan group of
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Congressman Luis Gutierrez and Illinois Senator Dick Durbin met with community leaders in Chicago yesterday in order to talk about the hot issue of immigration reform in the United States. “To think that 11 million are living among us without documentation,” Durbin noted. “We need to do something.” Durbin hosted the meeting along with Congressman
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Univision anchor Jorge Ramos, who also hosts the public affairs program Al Punto says that he believes the Republican Party “finally gets it” about the issue of immigration and the need for reform in terms of the growing power of the Hispanic vote. With immigration the topic on everyone’s lips in the United States at
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