U.S. citizenship
A Taiwanese mother who gave birth in the middle of a flight en-route to Los Angeles from Taiwan is now finding herself in some major trouble. According to Mashable, U.S. border patrol has seized her child and deported the woman who goes by the surname Jian. To boot she may be facing some heavy charges for the in-flight fiasco.
A law the Arizona house and senate approved last week requiring high school students to pass a citizenship test has drawn criticism for it similarities to tests black voters were given decades ago.
Even many Republicans are challenging a controversial study from the conservative Heritage Foundation claiming immigration reform will cost $6.3 trillion.
Perhaps it’s just necessary political optimism, but President Obama says he believes the bipartisan immigration reform bill currently being debated in the Senate can also pass the House of Representatives.
The bipartisan immigration bill currently under consideration by the Senate Judiciary Committee is still in tenuous circumstances, as lawmakers seek to appease as many groups with disparate interests as possible.
More than two-thirds of African Americans support immigration reform, despite some fears that immigrant labor depresses wages for U.S. workers, according to a new poll.
While the Senate seems likely to pass a bipartisan immigration bill eventually, whatever legislation comes from that debate will then need to pass the more conservative House of Representatives, and some House members aren’t waiting.
The question is not whether immigration reform will pass, but how well.
On both sides of the immigration debate, we hear rumors of 11 million eligible new voters, as undocumented immigrants become citizens and receive the right to vote. Surely they’ll be Democrats?
The Senate’s bipartisan immigration reform bill is finally official. Democrat Chuck Schumer of New York filed the bill on behalf of the “Gang of Eight,” the group of Republicans and Democrats who have been working on the bill for months.
President Obama has expressed his support for the bipartisan immigration bill created by the Senate over the last several months.
Undocumented immigrants pinning their hopes on the path to citizenship outlined in the Senate’s bipartisan immigration reform bill may want to lower their expectations. The wait will be long.
The Senate’s immigration reform bill will be introduced tomorrow, and hopes are high that it will clarify and streamline the naturalization process for millions of hopeful immigrants, as well as create an entirely new path to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country.
While the Senate’s “Gang of Eight” has come to a preliminary agreement on the creation of a bipartisan immigration reform bill, the details are far from determined.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is entering the immigration reform fray, forming a non-profit group that will advocate for business-centric reform measures and a path to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country.
