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Posts Tagged ‘immigration reform’

Immigration Reform Promised By Obama in 2nd Term

While at the Summit of the Americas, President Barrack Obama made his most specific promise yet to Hispanics in the U.S. The president said on Saturday in Cartagena, Colombia that he would wrestle with the immigration policy during the first year of 2nd term as president. However, Obama cautioned that it would [...]

Immigration Reform and the Strange Case of Amnesty: What’s the Matter With Forgiveness Anyway?

It is difficult to say how the term "amnesty" became anathema in the U.S. immigration debate. It may be due in part to the damaged reputation of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. That law legalized nearly 3 million persons, but its "three-legged" strategy — legalization, employer sanctions [...]

Immigration reform tops public policy issues

The stakes are rising and tempers are flaring in the immigration debate.
As much of the agricultural community seeks to avoid a mandatory E-Verify law without a suitable guest worker program for agriculture, economists with the American Farm Bureau Federation, Washington, D.C., have estimated the U.S. could lose $5 billion to $9 billion [...]

Trade, immigration reform offers economic boost

The economic news remains dreadful — stock markets, credit ratings and consumer confidence are all plunging. Worse yet, the administration has few tools available to reverse the trend. New stimulus spending is politically impossible, and interest rates are already at rock bottom.
But two useful moves could be made now that, over time, would improve America’s [...]

President Obama must push harder on immigration reform

By Luis V. Gutierrez and Pramila Jayapal
EARLY one February morning, Ricardo was awakened by his mother’s screams and someone pounding on his bedroom door. When the high-school student and U.S. citizen answered the door, a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was pointing a gun with a scope light straight at [...]

House GOP Hints At Immigration Reform For Skilled Workers

Republican lawmakers on Thursday signaled a willingness to tackle immigration reform measures, specifically those relating to skilled worker visas.
Led by Virginia’s Bob Goodlatte, the House Republican Technology Working Group released its list of top technology concerns relating to economic growth in the U.S.
Under the banner of “Ensuring American Access to the Best Workers,” [...]

President Obama says reforming immigration policy will help the nation’s economy, especially in the form of job creation.

Report Warns Easing Immigrants’ Path to Citizenship Will Further Harm Economy
EXCLUSIVE: President Obama says reforming immigration policy will help the nation’s economy, especially in the form of job creation.
Research cited by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce says there is no correlation between immigration and high unemployment.
But one major critic disagrees and says that illegal [...]

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