Latest Immigration Reform Headlines
A list of the most recent stories about Immigration.
Border security at issue in immigration bill
Bickering across a deep divide, supporters of immigration legislation pushed back hard Wednesday against Republican demands for tougher border security measures before millions living illegally in the country could take the first steps toward U.S. citizenship. Even modest changes were snared in the political crossfire that erupted on the first ...
NSA leaker Snowden in hiding in Hong Kong
The former CIA employee who suddenly burst into headlines around the globe by revealing himself as the source of top-secret leaks about U.S. surveillance programs has just as quickly gone to ground again. Two days after Edward Snowden checked out of a Hong Kong hotel where he told the Guardian ...
Immigration debate clears procedural Senate hurdle
In Spanish and English, the Senate pushed contentious immigration legislation over early procedural hurdles with deceptive ease on Tuesday as President Barack Obama insisted the "moment is now" to give 11 million immigrants in the United States illegally a chance at citizenship. Despite the lopsided votes, Republicans served notice they ...
Obama: Congress can finish immigration this summer
President Barack Obama says there's no reason Congress can't pass an immigration overhaul by the end of summer. In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama pushes a bipartisan bill the Senate is debating that creates a pathway to citizenship for 11 million people in the U.S. illegally. Obama says ...
Health care thorny issue in immigration debate
Health care coverage for newly legalized immigrants is emerging as a thorny issue in Congress' drive to remake the nation's immigration system, posing hard-to-solve problems for Senate negotiators and threatening a bill-writing effort in the House. The question is how much access to taxpayer-subsidized care should be granted to immigrants ...
Ariz. sheriff suspends immigration efforts
An Arizona sheriff who led the way for local police across the country to take up immigration enforcement is reconsidering his crackdowns — and other law enforcement officials who followed his lead are expected to eventually back away, too. Joe Arpaio, the sheriff for metropolitan Phoenix, has temporarily suspended all ...
APNewsBreak: Educators push for immigration reform
Twenty-one leaders of Tennessee's colleges and universities have sent a letter to the state's two U.S. senators, urging their support for immigration reform that will allow more graduates to remain in the country after they finish their education. The letter dated Wednesday asks Republican Sens. Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker ...
House passes measure to deport young immigrants
The Republican-controlled House voted Thursday to resume the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought illegally to the United States as children, a largely symbolic move in the first immigration-related vote in either chamber of Congress this year and a measure of the daunting challenge facing supporters of a ...
Tenn. educators who signed immigration letter
The following is a list of Tennessee college and university chancellors and presidents who signed a letter sent to U.S. Sens. Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker urging that they support a bi-partisan immigration reform bill. John Morgan, Chancellor of the Tennessee Board of Regents system Jimmy Cheek, The University of ...
DHS: A hunch is enough for searching your laptop
U.S. border agents should continue to be allowed to search a traveler's laptop, cellphone or other electronic device and keep copies of any data on them based on no more than a hunch, according to an internal Homeland Security Department study. It contends limiting such searches would prevent the U.S. ...
Rubio hears out House conservatives on immigration
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., sought support from House conservatives Wednesday for far-reaching immigration legislation, but many lawmakers emerged from their meeting deeply skeptical of any comprehensive bill with a pathway to citizenship for immigrants here illegally. It underscored the challenges ahead for the immigration bill and for Rubio himself as ...
US targets leaders of violent street gang
The government on Wednesday designated six leaders of the violent street gang MS-13 as international criminals, stepping up a crackdown on the sprawling U.S. and Central American gang's finances. The Treasury Department in October designated MS-13, or Mara Salvatrucha, as an international criminal organization. The Obama administration said that makes ...
Nebraska sued over immigrant license policy
A Nebraska City woman has filed a federal lawsuit against the Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles and its director over the state's denial of driver's licenses for young immigrants who have gotten work permits and avoided deportation under an Obama administration policy. The lawsuit was filed Friday by attorneys with ...
Immigration bill could affect Wis. Dells staffing
Resort operators in the Wisconsin Dells fear that a federal immigration overhaul bill could wipe out a system that attracts foreign college students for summer help. The sweeping bill has an anti-human-trafficking provision that bars labor contractors from charging fees to the workers they bring in. That could leave sponsoring ...
NATIONAL NEWS AT A GLANCE
c.2013 New York Times News Service FRACKING TESTS TIES BETWEEN CALIFORNIA ‘OIL AND AG’ INTERESTS Driven by advances in drilling technology and high oil prices, oil companies are increasingly moving into agricultural areas in California above a huge untapped oil reserve called the Monterey Shale, stirring a debate that pits ...
IRS aside, political passions take a summer break
Four years after the summer of rage that fueled the tea party movement, the political circuit is much quieter — even in Republican bastions like this. It's not clear whether conservatives who rallied against President Barack Obama's health care overhaul during raucous town hall-style meetings are tired, wary, complacent or ...
Group fails in bid to recall Ariz. sheriff
A campaign to force a recall election against the polarizing sheriff of metropolitan Phoenix has failed. Recall organizers said Thursday that they couldn't collect enough voter signatures to bring Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio to the ballot again. Organizers of the recall effort needed to turn in more than 335,000 ...
Ala. doctors angered they must prove they're legal
Some of Alabama's doctors are angered about a new mandate requiring them to provide the government with proof that they are legal U.S. residents. The Alabama Board of Medical Examiners sent out a letter May 16 to about 16,000 doctors who hold medical licenses in Alabama. The letter told them ...
FOR MEDICARE, IMMIGRANTS OFFER SURPLUS, STUDY FINDS
c.2013 New York Times News Service Immigrants have contributed billions of dollars more to Medicare in recent years than the program has paid out on their behalf, according to a new study, a pattern that goes against the notion that immigrants are a drain on federal health care spending. The ...
Jeb Bush calls for education, immigration reform
Boosting education standards and crafting an immigration policy that recognizes the valuable role newcomers play in creating jobs is essential to long-term economic growth, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said Wednesday. Speaking to Michigan business and government leaders on this Lake Huron resort island, Bush said the "right to rise" ...
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