Illinois is one of a small number of states in the US that is to offer driving privileges to people who are illegally in the country, according to a new article in the Chicago Tribune. December last year saw the Illegal Immigrant License Bill finally pass through the Senate after failing to do so five […]
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The top lobbyist in corporate American yesterday laid out a raft of the top goals of the business community for 2013 including lower regulation, booming energy production, a fix for the country’s fiscal situation and increased trade. However, Tom Donahue, the president of the US Chamber of Commerce, was also perhaps surprisingly bullish and passionate
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Advocates for US immigration reform might want to start looking for assistance from a seemingly somewhat unlikely source – that of Evangelical Christians. The political agenda of Evangelicals is starting to broaden with both documented and undocumented Hispanics increasing and pastors beginning to talk about immigration in the context of it being a religious concern.
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Billy Carter, a tobacco farmer in North Carolina, is something of a rarity among American farmers, given that he hires workers from Mexico entirely legally thanks to the government’s H-2A visa program. The bad news is that the program is not without its shortcomings, as last year proved without a doubt. The program forces farmers
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The controversial Senate Bill 1070 in Arizona has resulted in the state being regarded in a negative light by a great many people, though Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton is quick to point out that not everyone is in agreement with the anti-immigration law, The Arizona Republic states. Stanton has given a speech to around two
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2013 has kicked off with excellent news on the topic of US immigration. On January 3rd the 113th Congress was sworn into office, with immigration reform expected to be one of the key legislative priorities. President Obama has recently restated his commitment to making immigration reform one of the top priorities for his second term
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Several foreign countries are changing their process for applying for and getting a hold of US visas. Russian and Azerbaijan citizens are amongst those who have or will soon experience these changes. Azerbaijan citizens are now able to pay for their United States visas by paying by credit card during the online registration process to
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There will be many consequences to the November reelection of Barack Obama as President of the United States, but it is unlikely that there will be any as profound as the impact it will have on the prospect of immigration reform. As one in every six Americans now having at least some sort of Hispanic
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A ban that has been in effect since toward the end of July this year has been questioned by opponents, and now the Mexico government has also weighed in on the issue, Fox News Latino claims. The controversial SB1070 law in Arizona has seen the Mexican government ask the US Court to block part of
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The past two decades have seen a rise of as much as 200 percent in the rate of African immigrants coming to the United States from nations such as Ethiopia, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria. Africans are among the quickest growing groups of immigrants who are travelling to the United States to seek US citizenship,
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There are around 50 million Hispanics living in the United States, many of whom emigrated from Mexico to find a better life At the time when the rate of immigration were at its highest peak, the country’s biggest Spanish-speaking congregations started to prosper, and there is now a number of second- and third-generation Hispanics who
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