A bipartisan immigration bill is now being debated in the Senate.
Supporters of the bill, including the White House, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the Massachusetts Democrat, and Senator Arlen Specter, the Pennsylvania Republican, say it would help aspiring legal immigrants by eliminating the backlog of about four million visa applications within eight years. A total [...]
Lilo Mancia and his wife, María Briselda Amaya, were among 361 workers arrested on March 6 in an immigration raid at Michael Bianco Inc., a leather goods factory in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
On April 18, Ms. Amaya was awakened at 4 a.m., driven by immigration agents to Kennedy Airport in New York and placed on a [...]
From Families central to immigration talks (Yahoo News/Associated Press):
Under the White House proposal, legal immigrants would lose the right to petition to bring adult children and siblings to the U.S. They could do so for spouses and minor children, but their ability to sponsor parents would be severely limited.
The proposal would limit or end preferences [...]
Hightstown - a quiet town near Princeton University - and a fast-growing number of “sanctuary” cities and towns are bucking draconian federal immigration policies.
From Looking the Other Way on Immigrants (Washington Post):
But equally fervent are a less well-known but fast-growing number of “sanctuary” cities and towns — from Seattle to Cambridge, Mass. — where local [...]
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