The closing of the shelters set up to house undocumented immigrant minors at Lackland Air Force Base and a number of other locations shows how the dynamics of the months-long border crisis are changing, according to officials. Representative Henry Cuellar told News Radio 1200 WOAI that there has been a significant slowing in the amount […]
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A 54-year-old former immigration officer in the United States was convicted on Friday of having taken bribes in exchange for granting temporary legal status to undocumented immigrants. Billy Louis Nelms Sr, who worked as an immigration office within the Santa Ana federal building, was charged with having promised legal permanent status to Cambodian immigrants. The
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It is just three months before the midterm elections will decide which party controls the Senate, and the 2016 presidential campaigns will begin in earnest soon after; however, the Republican party continues to demonstrate that it does not have a clue what to do about the issue of immigration reform. The issue has vexed those
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Congressional leaders in the Senate and the House of Representatives have left for their August holiday without an agreement being reached on immigration. CNN says that Republicans in the House did not vote on the issue of the $659m emergency response bill to provide funds to deal with the growing concerns about the amount of
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Potential 2016 presidential candidate Marco Rubio yesterday pressed ahead with his own multistep immigration plan amid criticism that he has been forced into backtracking on comprehensive immigration reform because of conservative voters; however, the first-term Florida Republican senator told Fox News Sunday that he did not get elected in order to watch national poll numbers.
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Yesterday was a day of surprises in the House of Representatives. It was supposed to be the last working day for the Senate and the House before the five-week recess; however, lawmakers in the House of Representatives have postponed the start of their August recess to try to come up with an agreement on how
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The United States is set to open the first detention center specifically designed for immigrant mothers from Central America in the hope of sending a message to potential undocumented immigrants that the country does have somewhere to keep them and that they will not simply be released. The facility, which is situated in rural Karnes
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Jerry Brown, the governor of California, this week set a very different tone on the issue of immigration to that of Rick Perry, the governor of Texas. The difference is perhaps not surprising given that Brown governs the US state that has the greatest number of immigrants in the country. “These are children, and many
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Americans are wary about the idea of granting refugee status to minors crossing the US border from Central American to escape strife-torn countries, with the majority of those surveyed in a new poll conducted by the Associated Press-GfK believing that the United States is under no moral obligation to generally accept asylum seekers. The poll
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Democrats in the Senate are warning that they may try to attach the comprehensive immigration bill passed by the Senate last year to the package if Republicans in the House of Representatives pass a stripped-down bill to deal with the border crisis. The Senate’s $3.57bn border legislation seems unlikely to get past a procedural vote
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Unaccompanied immigrant minors caught at the US border are being rushed before immigration judges under a new federal policy. This has resulted in criticism from lawyers, who say that many immigrants have had less than two days to put in an appearance in court in states that are far away from their current residence. With
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