With Congress heading home for the August recess, a large number of Republicans in the House of Representatives have been attending meetings with their constituents in order to talk about the issue of immigration reform as well as how this issue can be moved forward within the chamber. Greg Sargent from the Washington Post has […]
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Bob Goodlatte, the Virginia Republican Representative, met with some of his constituents during a Town Hall meeting that was held in August County in order to talk about the issue of immigration reform. The Hill reports that the meeting was attended by immigration advocates who asked the representative questions in regards to his opposition to
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Catholic priests and bishops from major dioceses all across the United States will be preaching a coordinated message in September that backs changes to existing immigration policies, with some even making use of their Sunday Masses on September 8th to urge Congress to pass legislative reform that would include a pathway to US citizenship for
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It is better to come to an agreement about immigration reform than for an executive order to be issued by President Obama, Congress has been told by Senator Marco Rubio, according to ABC News. Rubio was one of the “Gang of Eight” group in the Senate that came up with the immigration reform bill passed
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A number of parties formed by Latin American nations have come together in California in order to assist the Millions of Voices for Immigration Reform coalition in taking action to assist with the passing of an immigration reform bill, with a rally being planned for September 22nd, according to La Opinion. The coalition of the
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One group of immigrants that is failing to get any kind of attention in the immigration reform debate currently going on in Washington is that of deported veterans. The Washington Post recently published an article that claimed that veterans who have committed a crime are being deported despite having served in the US military. Many
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The political future of the Republican Party may well be tied to immigration reform as the controversial Senate bill sits waiting for a vote in the House of Representatives sometime in the fall – but one of the top Republicans in Washington claims that the chances of a bill passing in 2013 may be much
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A set of recommendations in regards to immigration reform were released on August 15th by the Bipartisan Policy Center, the New York Times says. The letter also put forward a call to action for lawmakers in Congress to discuss immigration and to try and find a method whereby everybody can come to an agreement. “We
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With an uncertain fate facing immigration reform in Congress, young people who arrived in the United States when they were just children are attempting to win residency in the nation that they consider to be their home. Known as Dreamers, in relation to the DREAM Act that would have allowed them to receive US citizenship
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Over 300 leaders gathered together for Evangelical Immigration Table Day of Prayer and Action for Immigration Reform in order to show their declaration of faith and denounce people who are standing in the way of immigration reform. Religious leaders from Baptist and Pentecostal churches as well as Democrats and Republicans and US citizens from states
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If Congress ever manages to come to some kind of agreement on the issue of immigration reform, the chances are good that it will have to include a requirement involving the erection of fencing to wrap the great majority of the almost 2,000-mile Southwest border of the United States in tall steel columns. However, the
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