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Union of federal workers opposes immigration bill
WASHINGTON — Senators pushed forward Monday with changes to a sweeping immigration overhaul over the objections of a union of immigration officers that announced its opposition to the bill. The legislation, written by a bipartisan group of...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Migration, Parties and Movements, Interior Policy, Labor Legislation
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Senators press forward on immigration bill
WASHINGTON – Senators are pushing forward on changes to a sweeping immigration overhaul, preparing to vote the bill out of the Judiciary Committee before Congress adjourns for the Memorial Day recess. The bill largely has withstood the assaults of...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Migration, Interior Policy, Labor Legislation, Memorial Day
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Senators tighten student visa rules in immigration bill
The Senate Judiciary Committee amended the sweeping immigration bill Tuesday to tighten student visa rules in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings. The committee, which is trying to get through the 844-page bill by the end of the week, also...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Azamat Tazhayakov, Students, Migration, Interior Policy
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Boomers need immigrants
The Senate Judiciary Committee took up comprehensive immigration reform late last week. And, as expected, opponents are already rushing to derail it, arguing that any bill that legalizes the vast majority of undocumented immigrants in the United States...
Tags: Justice System, Heritage Foundation, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Migration, Congressional Budget Office
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L.A. worries about immigration reform's cost to taxpayers
As Congress takes up immigration reform, Los Angeles County officials are voicing concerns that local taxpayers will be "left holding the bag" to pay for the brunt of healthcare and other services for the multitudes of immigrants who apply for...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Healthcare Policies, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Migration, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
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L.A. County officials worried about costs of immigration overhaul
WASHINGTON — Few regions will absorb the impact of future immigration reforms more than Los Angeles County, home to an estimated 1.1 million people in the country illegally, one-tenth of the nation's total. As the Senate Judiciary Committee...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Migration, Labor Legislation, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Local Government
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Immigration bill survives first day of debate in Senate committee
WASHINGTON — After eight hours of debate, the bipartisan Senate immigration bill emerged mostly intact Thursday, despite Republican-led efforts to make substantial alterations in the first of what is certain to be many long committee meetings to...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Lindsey O. Graham, Migration, Parties and Movements, Ted Cruz
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Immigration reform divides Republicans
WASHINGTON — The immigration reform bill crafted by a bipartisan group of senators has deeply split the Republican minority even as lawmakers prepare to take the first votes on the proposal Thursday. Alabama's Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions, a...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Religious Events, Migration, Jim DeMint, Minority Groups
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Lindsey Graham blames immigration woes on south-of-the-border 'hell holes'
The GOP’s effort to woo Latinos may have suffered a minor setback Thursday, thanks to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). Republicans have been trying to improve their standing with the fastest-growing voting bloc ever since last year's election, when...
Tags: Justice System, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Lindsey O. Graham, Social Issues, Mexico
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Many amendments, few changes to immigration overhaul
WASHINGTON -- Senators on Thursday began the arduous task of going through some 300 proposed amendments to the delicately constructed bipartisan immigration bill. By lunch, they had disposed of 17. With a packed audience of many pro-immigration...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Lindsey O. Graham, Migration, Parties and Movements, Ted Cruz
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Immigration proposal, and its small GOP opposition, is unveiled
— Moments before a group of eight senators unveiled a sweeping bipartisan immigration overhaul Thursday, a smaller group launched the GOP opposition. Led by Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the Republican push-back emerged as a muted affair....
Tags: U.S. Congress, AFL-CIO, Migration, Parties and Movements, Ted Cruz
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Senate rejects gun background check measure
WASHINGTON — Gun control advocates had told themselves this time would be different. It wasn't. The two-decade deadlock that has gripped congressional efforts to act on gun control continued Wednesday as a measure to require more gun buyers to...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Richard A. Gephardt, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Interior Policy, Susan Collins
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