Technology companies in India, looking to ease the legislative difficulties surrounding the H-1B US visa, which allows foreign workers to gain employment in the US, have been offered an alternative in the form of a risky and expensive US visa program, intended to create jobs and attract investments. Indian companies, such as Wipro, Infosys, and […]

A proposal to end the standoff over immigration was revealed on Monday, by a bipartisan array of lawmakers in the House of Representatives, as the White House proposes a more conservative plan. There are 48 lawmakers in the group, split by political party. It calls for their new outline for immigration and border security to

Iowa has joined the national debate over immigration with a new and expansive bill, which would force local governments to cooperate with federal immigration agencies or potentially lose state funding. The measure is set for a vote this week in the Legislature, which is controlled by the Republican Party. It would require law enforcement to

The ‘common sense’ group of Senators who helped to end last week’s government shutdown will meet again this week to consider the immigration proposal from President Donald Trump and give recommendations, according to Senator Susan Collins. Moderate Maine Republican, Collins, has become the unofficial leader of the bipartisan coalition of 26 Senators. She said the

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has warned 23 ‘sanctuary cities’, including Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York, that they face subpoenas if they fail to provide documents showing that local law enforcement officers share information with authorities from the federal government. Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, outlined the demand on Wednesday, in an escalation of the

Hopes of a new accord on immigration in the US were dampened on Wednesday, as renewed bickering broke out between the Democrats and President Donald Trump. Congress must move past previous differences to strike a deal but the nation’s two major political parties have, over the last few days, again fallen back into the kind

With the federal government reopening after the weekend shutdown, political pressure is growing on Colorado Senators, Cory Gardner and Michael Bennett, to start supporting immigration reform. Several activist groups targeted the pair of lawmakers after they voted to end the shutdown, which many advocates believed was the best way to force a resolution to the

As moderates in the Senate urged their leader to commit to bipartisan immigration reform, on Tuesday, conservatives in the House of Representatives pushed their own leaders to take a very different stance on the issue. A powerful group of over 150 Republicans, known as the Republican Study Committee (RSC), will announce that it has voted

After three days, the US government shutdown ended with the Senate putting forth a temporary spending bill and reaching an agreement to put a politically contentious immigration proposal under consideration, something that seems inevitable to cause another partisan battle in the next couple of weeks. Monday saw the deadlock between the nation’s two major political

The Securing America’s Future Act has been introduced to Congress by key Republicans in the House of Representatives, with White House support, as their way of solving the current impasse on immigration. The new bill would have massive adverse effects on the nation’s economic and labor force and offer the most severe restrictions on legal

On Sunday, Congress was under pressure by President Donald Trump to end the government shutdown, which was entering its second day, as uncertainty reigned over whether the Republican and Democratic parties would be able to break the impasse over the restoration of federal funding anytime soon. Trump wrote on Twitter that a continuation of the