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While the Senate seems to be moving steadily toward the release of a bipartisan immigration reform bill, one of its biggest proponents – Marco Rubio -- seems to be losing his nerve. But why?
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.
Alaska’s sole member of the House of Representatives is backpedaling after using a racial slur in a radio interview earlier this week but stopped short of issuing a full apology.
With more movement on the immigration reform issue in Washington than ever before, it appears that attitudes are softening among Americans when it comes to allowing undocumented immigrants to stay in the U.S. legally.
Senator John McCain, one of the leaders of the “Gang of Eight” currently working on a bipartisan immigration reform bill, declined to stop using the word “illegal” to refer to undocumented immigrants, in response to a request from a 25-year-old immigrant at a town hall meeting on Tuesday.
The speeches at CPAC 2013, the Conservative Political Action Conference that wraps up today in Washington, D.C., demonstrated the hostile attitudes toward immigration reform that still plague the Republican Party.
President Obama continues his attempts to convince Republicans in Congress to support a comprehensive immigration reform bill being created by a bipartisan group of senators.
As both parties wrangle over immigration reform, proponents are gaining new allies, sometimes from unexpected sources.
An immigration reform compromise could be on the horizon, as influential Congressional Republicans seem to be coming to the conclusion that they will need to find a way to deal with the nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country, short of trying to deport them all.
In a move that is infuriating Republicans, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has released hundreds of undocumented immigrants in an effort to save money ahead of Friday’s looming budget sequestration.
The immigration reform plans put forth by a bipartisan group of senators and the White House garnered mixed reviews from politicians, activists and Twitter users.
A bipartisan group of senators seems intent on pursuing guarantees that border enforcement will be increased before the country moves forward on other immigration reform changes.
President Obama expressed support for immigration reform proposals put forth by a bipartisan group of Senators, but he also unveiled his own plan.
Nearly 3,000 armed volunteers will be patrolling outside of roughly 60 Arizona schools after Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio gave them the go-ahead this week.
Just days after a new law passed designed to make it easier for immigrants with family members in the U.S. to be reunited with their loved ones, the new regulation is drawing reaction from both supporters and critics.
