Immigration Law
The road to immigration reform once again goes through Capitol Hill Tuesday as business leaders and labor union reps debate how to fix the immigration system--a guest worker program being one of the things they will consider.
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.
The long-awaited push for changes to immigration policy in the U.S. looks ready to take flight after President Obama called for immigration reform Tuesday during the same week that a group of bipartisan U.S. senators presented a concrete plan for immigration reform.
President Obama expressed support for immigration reform proposals put forth by a bipartisan group of Senators, but he also unveiled his own plan.
By the numbers, it looks like a majority--a slim one--support the idea of giving undocumented immigrants permission to apply for U.S. citizenship and stay in the country.
President Obama has a full plate as he begins his second term in the White House this week, but immigration reform tops that list. And it doesn't look like he's waiting long to dig in.
With immigration reform taking the forefront again in the nation, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., says that keeping high tech jobs in the United States should be a major reason why immigration reform should be passed.
On the first official day of his next four-year term, President Obama's language during his inauguration speech gave the U.S. a glimpse of his apparent intentions to move forward on long-awaited reforms to the country's immigration system.
The growing call for immigration reform among Latinos is echoing from even the ranks of Hollywood.
Days after her family was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Arizona, a prominent young Arizona immigration activist has joined a newly elected Arizona Congresswoman's office.
The debate on immigration has garnered a push from a new advocate who could benefit from skilled immigrant labor--the technology sector.
With the immigration debate taking shape amid a new plan from the Obama administration to fix the immigration system, two high-profile Hispanic politicians have come forward speaking on both sides of the argument on immigration overhaul.
President Obama's previous pledge to enact comprehensive immigration reform looks to be gaining steam, the Obama administration reportedly planning to push an extensive overhaul in immigration to Congress that would include a pathway to citizenship for millions of immigrants.
The arrest of a well-known immigration activist's mother during a nighttime raid in Arizona has drawn attention and a huge outpouring of supporters calling for her release.
The new immigration law that allows certain undocumented immigrants to stay in the United States while applying for permanent visas is drawing mostly positive reaction, but immigration experts and critics say that more is needed if there is to be true reform to the broken immigration system.
