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Bloomberg: Obama says economy stifled by outdated immigration law
President Barack Obama said the U.S. economy is “stifled” by an inefficient immigration system and that a consensus is forming in Congress that may lead to a rewritten law in the next few months....
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Lack of immigration reform threatens farmers
Immigration reform that will afford more visas to low-skilled workers and legalize those already here will have a dramatic impact on American agriculture. According to Red Bryan, a California berry...
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Poll shows Obama with upper hand in immigration fight
President Barack Obama enters the latest budget showdown with Congress with his highest job- approval rating in three years and public support for his economic message, while his Republican opponents’...
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Business and labor reach basic agreement on immigration reform
In an effort to avert the bitter and public feuding between business and labor organizations that helped kill a broad immigration overhaul in 2007, representatives of the two groups released a...
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Tech leaders plan virtual push for immigration reform
High-tech leaders including the former heads of AOL and Mozilla are organizing a “virtual march for immigration reform” aimed at pressuring lawmakers to enact sweeping changes to the nation’s...
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Labor and big business continue negotiations
One of the most important components of any immigration reform bill will be how the immigration system will be changed to deal with future waves of immigrant workers in manual labor sectors. Last week,...
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Invite: 2 Live Web Briefings on US-Mexico, Border, Immigration Reform
With the President announcing a May trip to Mexico, and members of the Senate’s “Gang of Eight” taking a constructive trip to the border, NDN/NPI’s 21st Century Border Initiative has put together two...
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New York Times – New Waves of Immigrants From Mexico Unlikely
Past experience and current trends in both Mexico and the United States suggest that legalization would not lead to a sudden flood of illegal immigration on the scale of what occurred after 1986....
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Homeland Security Today: No furloughs for CBP. Continuing Resolution to...
President Barack Obama is set to sign a continuing resolution (HR 933) to fund the federal government for the rest of fiscal year 2013, ostensibly increasing funding for border security efforts for the...
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Washington Post – Key provisions expected in immigration legislation proposal
The Washington Post has put together a truly terrific outline of the entire recently released immigration legislation proposal. Below please find a handy info graphic outlining what each of the...
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