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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: Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Elections, Labor Legislation, Immigration, Memorial Day
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U.S. panel votes to speed up airport fingerprinting of immigrants
Reuters* Major U.S. airports would be first to install equipment * Negotiations continue over high-tech visas By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON, May 20 (Reuters) - High-tech systems for tracking the movements of immigrants and other foreigners when leaving the...Tags: Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, AFL-CIO, National Government, Illegal Immigrants
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Get-tough GOP now says Justice went too far
Chattanooga Times Free Press, Tenn.In virtual lockstep on topics such as guns, God and limited government, Southern Republicans in the Senate differ on how to balance national security interests with First Amendment protections. Last week, lawmakers from Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama and...Tags: POLITICO LLC, Freedom of the Press, National Government, Al Jazeera (tv network), Johnny Isakson
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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: Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Dick Durbin, Employees, Chuck Grassley
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On immigration, ghosts of Christmas past
WASHINGTON -- Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" is a gooey confection of seasonal sentiment. It also is an economic manifesto that Dickens hoped would hit with "twenty thousand times the force" of a political tract. It concerned a 19th-century debate...
Tags: Labor Markets, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Productivity, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Illegal Immigrants
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Column: Ghosts of Christmas past seen in immigration debate
WASHINGTON — Charles Dickens’ "A Christmas Carol" is a gooey confection of seasonal sentiment. It also is an economic manifesto that Dickens hoped would hit with "twenty thousand times the force" of a political tract. It concerned a 19th-...Tags: Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Labor Markets, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Productivity, Illegal Immigrants
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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: Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Congressional Budget Office, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Migration, Immigration
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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: Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), U.S. Congress, Dianne Feinstein, Migration, Don Knabe
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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: Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Zev Yaroslavsky, National Government, Labor Legislation
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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: Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Jeff Flake, Lawyers, Orrin Hatch
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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: Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Elections, Immigration, Lindsey O. Graham
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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: Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Republican Party, Immigration, Jeff Flake
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