The immigration reform bill that was recently passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee has now cleared its first hurdle in the Senate, by a vote of 82 to 15. This is only the first step and the bill has to overcome several hurdles, to pass. The Senate might pass the bill by the 4th of […]
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The Senate Judiciary Committee strengthened and passed the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013 (S.744), last month. Several amendments were filed to this bill and the bill was passed by the Committee after it was strengthened. The Senate opened floor debate on the bill, last Friday and the Senate is expected
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An immigration reform bill was recently introduced by the Gang of Eight, that comprises of four Democratic and four Republican Senators. This bill would create a new provisional status called the Registered Provisional Immigrant Status and the undocumented immigrants living in the country could apply for this status after the President signs this bill into
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Senator Chuck Schumer believes that the immigration bill will pass the Senate by the 4th of July. The full Senate will begin voting on the Gang of Eight’s immigration reform bill, next week and the bill will be introduced in the Senate on 10th June. Senator Schumer stated that he and the other members of
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The bipartisan Gang of Eight that includes four Republican and four Democratic senators, in April unveiled an immigration reform bill and this bill was passed by the Senate Judiciary committee after a few changes were made to the bill. The aim of this bill is to fix the immigration system of America. This bill would
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The Republicans do not want to grant the undocumented immigrants access to federal health care benefits. They want them to buy their own health insurance plans and such plans are likely to be costly. But the Democrats who know that the health insurance plans are way too expensive, say that it is not right to
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The Senate Judiciary Committee passed S.744, the Senate immigration reform bill and this bill will soon be voted by the full Senate. This bill includes a proposal that would boost immigrant entrepreneurship and the bill would create a new visa program called the INVEST (Investing in New Venture, Entrepreneurial Startups, and Technologies) visa program, meant for
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The immigration reform bill of the Gang of Eight would boost the country’s economy. Likewise, it would also boost the housing market. A study was recently released by the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals and according to that study the US housing market would receive a boost, if the 855 page immigration reform
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The Gang of Eight’s immigration reform bill cleared the first major hurdle and passed the Senate Judiciary Committee. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman, Patrick Leahy, wanted to add an amendment that would allow the US citizens to sponsor their same sex foreign spouses for US Green Cards. He did not introduce that amendment in the Committee
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Several groups in the United States are against immigration reform and the Grassroots conservative groups helped to kill immigration reform in 2007. Few such anti-amnesty groups held press conferences, in reference to the immigration reform legislation of 1986 that legalized and issued Green Cards to more than 2.7 million undocumented immigrants. The founder of Remember
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