US Immigration

Pareciera que todos los días hay una nueva noticia sobre el COVID-19 y su impacto en la vida de los estadounidenses. La velocidad de las noticias ha dejado aturdidos y confundidos a muchas personas acerca de cómo los impactan las medidas adoptadas por el gobierno. Esta confusión se duplica especialmente para aquellos que aspiran a […]

It feels like every day there is something new about COVID-19 and its impact on the lives of Americans. For many, the rapid-fire news cycle has left them dazed and confused about how the government’s response to the virus impacts them. This confusion is doubled especially for those who are aspiring Americans, green card holders,

President Barack Obama says that the bipartisan group of senators who are working on legislation for immigration reform are following a “reasonable timetable” and has suggested that he will push forward to try and have a bill passed within the first half of 2013. In a couple of interviews that took place the day after

Last Wednesday United States Senator Patrick Leahy proposed legislation that would enable US citizens to sponsor same sex partners in their application for a green card.  The same sex rights when it comes to immigration reform have also been backed by the Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, and President Barack Obama.  In the Senate

Mexico has broken its silence on the debate over immigration reform taking place in the United States, saying that “Walls aren’t the solution.”  Lawmakers in the US are contemplating extending the border fence as one of the additional security measures that accompanies plans to offer legal status to over 11 million undocumented immigrants, the great

For two months after the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals created by President Barack Obama was passed into law, back in 2012, immigrants were forced to register to be protected with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement rather than the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.  Those immigrants who are eligible are now able to have

With just 33 working days remaining until Congress goes into recess on July 4th, one Democrat in the House of Representatives attempted a new method of getting Congressional members to vote on the issue of comprehensive immigration reform. Representative Tony Cardenas used the House Budget mark-up session for Representative Paul Ryan’s House Republican budget plan

The Department of Homeland Security has announced two new proposals to allow 100,000 skilled immigrant workers to become eligible for work visas.  This is the latest step toward a change in policy and would get around the continued intransigence of Congress when it comes to addressing this issue. The new proposals, which have the aim

Regardless of whether House majority leader Eric Cantor’s shocking defeat was caused by the issue of immigration, two significant new polls seem to indicate that the great majority of Americans, including many conservative Republicans, continue to be in favor of it.  A poll issued on Wednesday by the center-right group American Action Forum showed that

Eric Cantor, the majority leader of the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, lost his primary on Tuesday.  Cantor lost to economics professor Dave Brat in what was a very unexpected upset.  Cantor had straddled the fence on the issue of immigration reform, leading both sides of the debate to label him indecisive. Cantor had made several