The Senate had barely gaveled into session today when Majority Leader Harry Reid started threatening to spoil his colleagues’ weekend plans to try to prod action on a bipartisan immigration overhaul proposal. “Unless we begin working on amendments soon, we...
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People participate in a protest march that organizers said was an attempt to get the U.S. Congress to say yes to immigration reform on April 6, 2013 in Miami, Florida.
Reid Warns Warriors on Weekends
Sens. Chuck Schumer of New York, left, and John McCain or Arizona, before their meeting on immigration with President Barack Obama, April 16, 2013. AP Photo.
Senators: Obama Nods on Immigration ‘Compromise’
Updated at 5:30 pm EDT The White House isn’t completely satisfied with the immigration rewrite that a bipartisan group of senators has produced, two senators say, yet President Barack Obama has endorsed their work. The White House confirmed as much...
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Migrant farm workers from Mexico a day of harvesting organic vegetables in Wellington, Colorado.
House Ready to Make Undocumented ‘Real Americans:’ Diaz-Balart
A group of U.S. House members will propose steps to legal status for undocumented immigrants, who shouldn’t be living here permanently without a chance to become “real Americans,” said Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart. Bringing many of the approximately 11 million undocumented immigrants “out of the...
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Student Federico Paseiro wears a T-Shirt with a message that reads "Undocumented," at a meeting for "Dreamers' Moms" March 20, 2013 at a Miami church.
Path to Citizenship Partisan? It Depends
A path to citizenship? A partisan divide? It depends on the question. With a Washington Post/ABC News poll today showing that 57 percent of registered voters support a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, it finds that only 35 percent...
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New American citizens take photos following a naturalization ceremony at the district office of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on January 28, 2013 in Newark, New Jersey.
Immigration: Gang of 535
As word of a deal between business and labor leaders emerged this weekend, clearing what appeared to be the last impediment in talks among a bipartisan group of eight senators crafting a plan to overhaul immigration, one of the leaders...
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Migrant farm workers carry cases of freshly picked spinach on a farm near Wellington, Colorado.
Undocumented Should Be Able to Stay, With Some Conditions: Poll
As lawmakers work to finalize an immigration law rewrite that would provide a path to citizenship for many of the undocumented already here, fewer than half of all Americans say the undocumented should be eligible to become citizens, according to...
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TV video cameras at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference at the National Harbor.
Immigration Reform Promoted at CPAC
If you’re looking for opponents of a broad immigration rewrite at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, you’ll have to do some sleuthing. Foes who decry efforts to legalize the nation’s 11 million undocumented immigrants as “amnesty,” for so long...
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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush speaks during the final day of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida.
Jeb Bush’s 2016 Window: Still Open
Jeb Bush appears “locked and loaded for bear,” fellow Republican and Floridian Joe Scarborough says. The former Florida governor’s run of interviews with a new book on immigration is the clearest sign that another Bush is looking at a run...
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Immigrants from the Dominican Republic wait to see an immigration lawyer on Jan. 31, 2013 in New York City. They were visiting the CUNY Citizenship Now Express Center, a non-profit that helps some 8,000 immigrants in the New York area navigate through the complicated process of acquiring U.S. Citizenship.
Path to Citizenship Supported: Poll Shows Obama-Immigration Support
Updated at 11:20 am EST As bipartisan groups of lawmakers in both the Senate and House craft proposals for revamping the nation’s immigration laws — including a potential path to citizenship for many of the 11 million undocumented immigrants already...
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Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa answers a question at the National Press Club in Washington, on Jan. 14, 2013.
Villaraigosa: Obama’s `Seminal’ Vote Sign for Republicans on Immigration
President Barack Obama’s winning coalition of Hispanics, blacks, women, Jews, Asians and young people marked a “seminal” event in U.S. politics, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said today. Villaraigosa said the electorate that gave fellow Democrat Obama a second term...
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