The bipartisan immigration reform bill in the Senate cleared yet another procedural hurdle today More than two dozen Republicans joined with Democrats to close debate on the Hoeven-Corker amendment.
Four bodies have been found in the Arizona desert, likely migrants attempting to cross into the United States. Local authorities found the bodies about 70 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border, deep in the harsh Sonoran Desert.
Republican Senator Ted Cruz of Texas is one of the most outspoken opponents of the bipartisan immigration reform bill currently being debated in the chamber, but his own father’s path to citizenship was neither straightforward nor completely honest.
The bipartisan immigration reform bill passed its first test on the floor of the Senate today, receiving an impressive 82 votes in favor of cloture, which allows the bill to move on to the next phase of debate.
Conservative House Rep. Raul Labrador of Idaho, a staunch opponent of immigration reform and a path to citizenship for many of the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country, said he would no longer be a part of the bipartisan group working toward a House version of the reform bill.
The death of New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg yesterday morning leaves the Democrats a vote down in the struggle to pass comprehensive immigration reform.
Contrary to warnings from conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation, a new study shows immigrants pay far more into government services like Medicare and Social Security than they take out.
As the bipartisan immigration reform bill and its path to citizenship work through the Senate, California lawmakers are trying to pass bills to protect workers, including undocumented ones, from intimidation by business owners.
The bipartisan immigration reform bill has passed the Senate Judiciary Committee and will be taken up by the full Senate sometime this summer. Due to the diligence, and some would say stubbornness, of the Gang of Eight, the bill remains in more of less the same form as when it entered committee.
The Connecticut House of Representatives approved a measure late last week that would allow undocumented immigrants to apply for driver’s licenses, register their cars and purchase automobile insurance.
According to a new study, the passage of immigration reform in Washington would add about three million new homeowners to the real estate market and spearhead a recovery for the ailing housing sector.
Joe Arpaio, the controversial sheriff of Arizona’s Maricopa County, has been reprimanded by a federal judge for racially profiling Latinos suspected of being undocumented immigrants, most of whom were American citizens or legal residents.
The bipartisan immigration bill has been voted out of the Senate Judiciary Committee and onto the full Senate, but it left behind an amendment that would have made same-sex couple eligible for family unification.
