Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has urged lawmakers in the United States to embrace comprehensive immigration reform, arguing that putting an end to special quotas on US visas and offering a pathway to citizenship will boost growth and innovation in the country. The News Corp and 20th Century Fox chairman has also been pressing for immigration […]
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With still no sign of the issue of immigration reform being addressed by the House of Representatives in the near future, one New York senator has decided to take matters into his own hands. Democratic state senator Gustavo Rivera recently introduced the New York Is Home Act, which would give non-citizen residents many of the
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Michelle Obama turned a swearing-in ceremony for 50 new US citizens yesterday into a call for action to be taken on the issue of immigration reform, which continues to stall in Congress. “In many ways, it is because of ‒ not in spite of ‒ our immigrant population that we grow stronger every single day,”
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Tom Horne, the attorney general of Arizona, demanded on 5th June that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) puts an end to its policy of transporting illegal immigrants into Arizona from Texas and provides an explanation for its behavior. Horne sent a letter to the DHS in which he said that he will allow federal
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The White House is expanding a campaign that aims to dispel the rumors about the rules surrounding the deportation of young immigrants in the United States and Central America. Its action is part of the effort to cut down the increasing numbers of unaccompanied minors crossing the border into the country. Administration officials are working
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A group of veterans gathered in Washington DC last Thursday to hold a press conference to voice their support for the need for comprehensive immigration reform. Veterans for Immigration Reform, otherwise known as Vets4Reform, used the conference to present a collaboratively-authored paper entitled On the Front Line: Impacts of Immigrants on Military Force Readiness, which
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Bob Goodlatte, the House judiciary chairman, seems a pretty low-key Republican congressman to be caught in the midst of the most heated political fight on Capitol Hill – immigration reform – but the 62-year-old, who has had 11 terms in Congress, says that the current immigration status quo is unacceptable. Goodlatte claims that he is
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Immigration reform advocates were given a minor victory on Friday when two countries in separate parts of the United States decided they would no longer be honoring immigration hold requests. The requests, which are issued by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), have previously had a big impact on undocumented immigrants held in local custody. ICE
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Eric Cantor, the House majority leader who lost his seat in a shock Republican primary result in Virginia last week, has defended his opinions on the revision of immigration laws in the United States while acknowledging that his position angered a lot of people on both sides of the political fence. Cantor, who will be
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Regardless of whether House majority leader Eric Cantor’s shocking defeat was caused by the issue of immigration, two significant new polls seem to indicate that the great majority of Americans, including many conservative Republicans, continue to be in favor of it. A poll issued on Wednesday by the center-right group American Action Forum showed that
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Amid allegations of abuse by American officials and reports of poor conditions, the Obama administration has announced that it is to use a third military base to house children and young adults who have illegally crossed the border into the United States. Reuters claims that unnamed administration officials say that the third facility is to
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