immigration reform
Much debate has continued in Washington regarding the immigration proposal designed to update the nation's immigration laws, and both advocates and opponents of the bill have drawn their lines in the sand over whether immigration reform constitutes "amnesty."
Tesla Motors CEO and SpaceX founder Elon Musk has parted ways with the pro-immigration reform political action committee founded by Facebook mogul Mark Zuckerberg.
The Heritage Foundation author who’d Ph.D. dissertation claimed Hispanic immigrants have lower IQs than “white natives” has resigned from the organization following an outcry over his previous work.
The bipartisan U.S. Senate panel's proposed bill that would bring about comprehensive immigration reform survived its first major test Thursday during its first day of consideration before the Senate Judiciary Committee, one that was largely split on the bill.
Senate Democrats defeated the first of hundreds of expected amendments conservative Republicans plan to put forth to defang or delay the bipartisan immigration bill currently being considered by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
While the debate on immigration reform in Washington rages on, Vice President Joe Biden called for legislators to get a bill passed on immigration reform by the end of the summer.
The author of the controversial and largely discredited Heritage Foundation study claiming the immigration reform bill will be too costly also authored a dissertation in 2009 claiming immigrants have lower IQ scores than “white natives.”
Battle lines are being drawn in the immigration reform fight, and Republicans are splintering. Mainstream conservatives have lambasted a study by the Heritage Foundation claiming reform will cost too much, and now prominent Tea Party members are joining the conflict -- in favor of reform.
Even many Republicans are challenging a controversial study from the conservative Heritage Foundation claiming immigration reform will cost $6.3 trillion.
The last time that a major groundswell of opposition took place regarding a widesweeping bill designed to fix the nation's immigration laws, the bill was defeated soundly by the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate of 2007.
One of the world's most respected financial minds Sunday called for Washington to adopt what he called "a more logical immigration policy" in order to help the U.S. workforce attract more bright talents from abroad.
Perhaps it’s just necessary political optimism, but President Obama says he believes the bipartisan immigration reform bill currently being debated in the Senate can also pass the House of Representatives.
The bipartisan immigration bill currently under consideration by the Senate Judiciary Committee is still in tenuous circumstances, as lawmakers seek to appease as many groups with disparate interests as possible.
During President Obama's recent visit to Mexico on Thursday, the president stumped for immigration reform, stating that passing reform into law will help the economic relationship between the U.S and Mexico.
More than two-thirds of African Americans support immigration reform, despite some fears that immigrant labor depresses wages for U.S. workers, according to a new poll.
