Immigration Reform 2014
Democrat Representative for Texas Joaquín Castro is promoting a measure that would allow the United States Army to admit young "Dreamers" who wish to join the Armed Forces, and has already received support from other Republican Representatives, local media reported.
New voices, not precisely democratic, have joined in favor of an awaited immigration reform which is still stuck in the House of Representatives in the United States.
The requests of federal authorities to detain undocumented immigrants will be ignored by various Colorado chiefs of police, state authorities announced.
Republican leaders and businessmen of Illinois called for the US Congress to approve immigration reform during this legislative year.
The U.S. government is studying the possibility of limiting the number of deportations (which in 2014 broke a historic record) of illegal immigrants without a serious criminal history, revealed American media on Tuesday, April 22.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said last week that she is a "great defender" of immigration reform, a measure which seeks to open a path to citizenship for almost 11 million immigrants.
A law proposal with the objective of having students, even undocumented ones, pay lower tuition in the state of Florida might be dismissed by the Senate.
Hundreds of people protested on Tuesday, April 8 outside the sheriff's office in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, to protest what they consider to be an abuse in measures against immigrants.
The record number of deportations that the Obama administration has reached in recent years has earned the President numerous criticisms, who was thought to be one of the main promoters of long awaited immigration reform, which is still stuck in the House of Representatives.
With little over two months of work before the "4th of July" recess, the U.S. House of Representatives, dominated by Republicans, provided a harsh counter against Democrats by rejecting an amendment which pretended to bring back the debate on immigration reform on Wednesday.
Democrats will resort to a measure that forces Republican legislators to call for a vote on a law project regarding immigration reform in the United States House of Representatives.
The President of the United States, Barack Obama, blamed Congress on Monday for the high number of deportations during the past 5 years.
The hunger strike that immigrants detained by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) maintain as a protest against deportations in Tacoma, Washington, extended to ICE's detention center in Texas.
