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The Criminal Alien Deportation Act would allow the Department of Homeland Security to deport arrested undocumented immigrants before their case reaches a judge.
On Wednesday Cecilia Muñoz, a senior Latino White House official and domestic policy director for the Obama administration, stressed the correlation between the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and today's fight for comprehensive immigration.
Senator John McCain (R - AZ) told a town hall meeting in Mesa, Arizona that he remains "guardedly optimistic" that the House of Representatives will pass immigration reform this year.
With the U.S. House looming closer to a vote on the controversial immigration bill this fall, key legislators and advocates in favor of the bill have intensified the pressure on several fronts to persuade House Republicans to pass the legislation.
Sen. John McCain continued his push for immigration reform in Congress while speaking at a forum hosted by AFL-CIO and the Economic Policy Institute on Tuesday.
In an unusual move, Sen. John McCain has taken a stance in agreement with his former political foe, President Obama, declaring that "stand your ground" laws need to be re-examined, both nationally and in his home state of Arizona.
As the debate in Washington continues on the bipartisan U.S. Senate bill aiming to bring about comprehensive immigration reform, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives could be looking to bring a compromise bill of their own to the House floor for debate.
With the debate over the proposed immigration reform bill continuing with renewed vigor on Capitol Hill thanks to the Boston Marathon terror suspects, members of the bipartisan U.S. Senate say that the bill would make terrorism harder instead of easier thanks to the provisions in the bill.
The question is not whether immigration reform will pass, but how well.
The unveiled legislation promising sweeping changes to the nation's immigration system Tuesday has the support of President Obama, but while the major judiciary hearings on the bill are just getting underway, opponents of the bill have wasted no time taking their shots at the new legislation.
President Obama has expressed his support for the bipartisan immigration bill created by the Senate over the last several months.
A bill that would bring about comprehensive immigration reform across the U.S. could be done as soon as this week, according to some U.S. Senate legislators.
As the immigration reform debate rages on in Washington, the Associated Press, one of the largest news organizations in the world, has decided to stop using the word "illegal" when it comes to describing undocumented immigrants.
Senator John McCain tweeted a picture as he witnessed a woman scaling the fence on the border between Mexico and the United States, while touring the border with members of the Senate’s “Gang of Eight.”
Senator John McCain, one of the leaders of the “Gang of Eight” currently working on a bipartisan immigration reform bill, declined to stop using the word “illegal” to refer to undocumented immigrants, in response to a request from a 25-year-old immigrant at a town hall meeting on Tuesday.
