South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham has blamed President Obama for the crisis playing out on the US border but nonetheless declared that the House of Representatives needs to fix the nation’s broken immigration system next year if it wants to have any chance of winning the 2016 presidential election. “I blame Obama for this moment,” […]
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Martin O’Malley, the governor of Maryland, has traditionally been a strong supporter of President Obama and his administration, raising over $1m for his 2012 presidential campaign and publicly supporting Obama in the media on numerous occasions; however, the two seem to have come to an impasse on the issue of immigration reform. Speaking at a
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Former presidential nominee Senator John McCain believes that immigration reform needs to be passed by the Republican party if it is to stand any chance of beating Hilary Clinton at the next presidential election in 2016. McCain called Clinton “the odds-on favorite right now” and says that while he expects the next election to be
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The number of Americans who believe that immigration is an important issue facing the United States more than tripled across in just one month from June to July, a recent Gallup poll indicates. The poll, which was conducted between 7th and 11th July, shows that 17% of Americans now think that immigration is the nation’s
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John Boehner, the speaker of the House of Representatives, says that an anti-trafficking law from 2008 that stops minors from Central America from being quickly deported is being abused and needs to be amended to stop thousands more undocumented immigrants from crossing the US border. “I don’t know how Congress can send more money to
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In the first large-scale deportation following the promise by the federal government to start responding to the immigration crisis, 40 people from Honduras have been sent back to their home country. The group included unaccompanied minors and adults who had been held in a New Mexico detention facility. The flight to San Pedro takes about
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Republican Paul Ryan, who has been among those at the forefront of the push for immigration reform, has joined with many other politicians in admitting that there is no chance of immigration reform happening this year. John Boehner, the speaker of the House, has already said that immigration reform will not be happening in 2014,
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Meetings with dozens of United States governors were held on Sunday 13th July in Nashville by Sylvia Matthews Burwell, the health and human services secretary. The private meetings were an attempt to get support from the state leaders who will be playing host to thousands of unaccompanied immigrant minors that have crossed the border. Over
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Protesters and counter-protesters yesterday made Arizona the latest border state to be turned into a national flashpoint over the issue of unaccompanied immigrant minors illegally entering the United States. Dozens of demonstrators descended on Oracle in Arizona, which is about 100 miles to the north of the border with Mexico, where it is thought that
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More than 100 people gathered outside Murrieta city hall on Wednesday evening last week to show solidarity and support for the unaccompanied immigrant minors who have started to arrive in Texas. Members of the vigil referred in a statement to the unaccompanied minors as being refugees and expressed their wish for Murrieta and the United
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Bill Gates, Sheldon Adelson and Warren Buffet are worth a collective $184.3bn and when they speak out on pressing political and social issues such as immigration reform, people tend to listen. Whether Congress is listening is another matter; however, the three billionaires have been urging reform even as lawmakers continue to squabble over what to
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