Senator Jeff Flake says that he thinks the chances look increasingly good that the House of Representatives will take up immigration reform after last week’s push from business, law enforcement, and religious groups. Flake still has ties to the House of Representatives after having served there for 12 years prior to his election to the […]
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In an attempt to get immigration reform moving forward within the House of Representatives, Republican Jeff Denham from California has teamed up with Democrats in the House to create a brand new bill to deal with the controversial issue. Denham has become the only Republican to team up with the group of 185 Democrats who
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The 2013 Diversity Immigrant Visa Program, also known as the Green Card Lottery, is to close on November 2nd, meaning that anyone who wishes to enter needs to do so by then. A total of 50,000 permanent resident visas, or green cards, are issued every year under the green card lottery. There is no fee,
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The time has come to fix the broken immigration system in the United States, President Barack Obama declared yesterday, noting that the revamping of immigration laws has bipartisan support. Although the speech offered little new information, it did put immigration reform firmly back in the spotlight after the bitter wrangling between the major political parties
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It is a frightening thing to find yourself in an abusive relationship, and trying to escape from it can be even more terrifying. October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and immigrants need to be aware of their rights so as to make sure that they are able to remove themselves from an abusive situation. The
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House Speaker John Boehner seems to have capitulated to the wishes of the Republican Party by refusing to introduce to the chamber the comprehensive bill for immigration reform that passed the Senate back in June. However, Boehner claims that he hopes he will be able to bring a bill to the floor of the House
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With the federal government still not having reached an agreement about the budget, all non-essential systems continue to be shut down. One of the programs that is no longer currently available to be used is the E-Verify system, which enables employers to discover whether or not new employees have the legal right to work in
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Anyone who is at all familiar with immigration will be aware of the Department of Homeland Security, although you may not be entirely au fait with how this department began or precisely what it does. With the Department of Homeland Security preparing to nominate a brand new department secretary, now is a good time to
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Thousands marched to the capital on Tuesday October 8th, following a rally in support of immigration reform legislation. Members of Congress were also in attendance, and eight of them were among the 200 people who ended up getting themselves arrested for civil disobedience. The rally, which was referred to as Camino Americano – also known
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Even as the Federal government continues to stay shut down, the Democrats have been in the process of coming up with their own new immigration bill in the hopes of being able to keep the reform process alive. The brand new bill still has a number of the same features as did the old one,
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Thousands of people flooded streets all over the United States on Saturday, October 5th in a bid to put an end to the legal limbo in which more than 11 million undocumented immigrants are forced to exist, and overhaul the country’s broken immigration system. Around 3,000 demonstrators – primarily Arab, Asian and Hispanic – demonstrated
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