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Star Tribune
| 3 months ago
With nearly 2 million illegal immigrants and a 1,200-mile border with Mexico, Texas has more at stake than most states in the renewed push to overhaul the nation's immigration system. Yet so far, Gov. Rick Perry and Republicans who control the...
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Associated Press
| 3 months ago
With nearly 2 million illegal immigrants and a 1,200-mile border with Mexico, Texas has more at stake than most states in the renewed push to overhaul the nation's immigration system. Yet so far, Gov. Rick Perry and Republicans who control the...
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Miami Herald
| 3 months ago
Immigration activists on Friday rejected the idea of granting legal status short of citizenship to illegal immigrants in emerging legislation. The activists said that only citizenship would be acceptable for the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants...
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Daily Chronicle
| 3 months ago
President Barack Obama predicted a tough road ahead as he urged House Democrats on Thursday to stick to their principles on guns, immigration and the economy in legislative fights with Republicans. He told lawmakers at their annual retreat in...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 3 months ago
As the immigration reform debate intensifies, some lawmakers propose a middle ground between deportation and citizenship for illegal immigrants...Or would some intermediate step such as legal residency suffice?
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Boston.com
| 3 months ago
President Barack Obama is promoting his second-term agenda to House Democrats, eager to keep them unified as a bulwark against a Republican majority on issues as diverse as the economy, immigration and guns. Obama was meeting with Democratic...
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United Press International
| 3 months ago
House Republicans cast doubt on a citizenship path for the United States' 11 million undocumented immigrants, with some calling for legal residency and no more. "Are there options that we should consider between the extremes of mass deportation and a...
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Asian Wall Street Journal
| 3 months ago
House Republicans took a skeptical view Tuesday of opening a path to citizenship to people now in the country illegally, pointing to a fundamental disagreement with a bipartisan effort in the Senate to change immigration laws. Still, the first House...
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Daily Nation
| 3 months ago
US lawmakers debated plans on Tuesday to build a pathway to citizenship for millions of immigrants who remade their lives in America but found themselves at the heart of a fierce debate. President Barack Obama and a group of Republican and Democratic...
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The New York Times
| 3 months ago
The Effect on the Budget John Moore/Getty Images Immigrants became citizens in a naturalization ceremony in Newark in January. Published: February 5, 2013 The stars could hardly have shone brighter on the prospects for immigration reform than in the...
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Washington Post
| 3 months ago
The White House is treading cautiously, sensing that business and labor leaders are closing in on an agreement that would make the two sides powerful allies in Obama's push to overhaul the nation's immigration laws this year. On Tuesday, the...
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Orlando Sentinel Online
| 3 months ago
There was no bill to vote on Tuesday, but GOP committee members made their opposition clear. Similarly, tea party members and other conservatives are speaking out. "My members' knee-jerk reaction is, `We don't want to see an amnesty,'" said Everett...
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Politico
| 3 months ago
House Republicans on Tuesday suggested Congress take a piecemeal approach to immigration reform and work on everything but a pathway to citizenship. GOP members of the Judiciary Committee used the year's first hearing on immigration to discuss border...
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Miami Herald
| 3 months ago
Republicans in the House of Representatives kicked off their first hearing on immigration Tuesday with a stated goal of harmonizing the principles of humanity and the rule of the law. Members of the House Judiciary Committee met after a wave of...
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Politico
| 3 months ago
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) aimed to repackage conservative principles through a familial lens in a domestic policy speech Tuesday, hoping to market GOP ideas to the average American parents who want a better future for their children...
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Washington Post
| 3 months ago
The Washington Post Congress' formal legislative debate on immigration opened Tuesday with a hearing in the House, where partisan cracks on the difficult issue emerged almost immediately. Democrats on the panel focused on the need for a comprehensive...
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The New York Times
| 3 months ago
At a House Judiciary Committee hearing exploring an overhaul of the immigration system, the first of several such hearings expected in the House, Representative Robert W. Goodlatte, Republican of Virginia and chairman of the committee, used much of...
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The Hill
| 3 months ago
Often a third rail in Washington, the issue of immigration reform has moved near the top of Congress's priority list this year largely as a result of November's elections, in which more than 70 percent of Hispanic voters chose Obama over GOP...
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GMA News
| 3 months ago
House of Representatives on Tuesday challenged President Barack Obama's central goal for immigration reform that would put 11 million undocumented residents on a path to citizenship, adding fresh doubts on whether legislation can be passed this year.
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SF Gate
| 3 months ago
The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee said Tuesday the nation's immigration system is "in desperate need of repair" as he opened Congress' first hearing this year on immigration. Whether Congress will be able to agree on how to fix it...
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The Hill
| 3 months ago
As such, we must move forward methodically and evaluate this issue in stages, taking care to fully vet the pros and cons of each piece. Immigration reform must honor both our foundation of the rule of law and our history as a nation of immigrants,...
