Jun 17
A year ago, President Obama announced the DACA program from the steps of the White House Rose Garden. The announcement marked a victory for thousands of undocumented immigrant youth whose courage and activism inspired the Administration to take action. Since that day, over half a million young immigrants have come forward under DACA to seek …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/06/17/happy-birthday-daca/
Apr 23
For more than seven hours on Monday, the Senate Judiciary Committee listened to testimony from almost two dozen people about the immigration reform bill a bipartisan group of senators introduced last week. From visas for farm workers and other foreign workers to the mandatory E-Verify system included in the bill, senators debated and questioned the …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/04/23/senate-hearing-reinforces-why-congress-needs-to-pass-comprehensive-immigration-reform/
Mar 18
Today, the Republican National Committee formally endorsed comprehensive immigration reform, bringing its position back in line with the Republican Party platform of 2004. Championing immigration reform was among the suggestions offered in a report released today about how the RNC can reinvent itself as part of a $10 million plan to reach out to minority …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/03/18/republican-party-officially-backs-immigration-reform/
Feb 20
The Department of Homeland Security has issued its latest data on the Obama Administration’s initiative that offers deferment from deportation and temporary work permits to young undocumented immigrants under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative. In the first six months of the program (August 15–February 14), 423,634 out of the roughly 936,933 immigrants …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/02/20/reaching-the-six-month-mark-on-deferred-action-for-childhood-arrivals-daca/
Jan 25
This week, the White House revealed that President Obama will lay out a proposal for immigration reform at a speech in Nevada next week. The visit to the home state of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid may reflect the strong support Reid and Nevada Latinos have given to Obama. It also follows Senator Reid’s clear …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/01/25/senates-symbolic-bill-rings-opening-bell-on-immigration-reform/
Jan 24
Immigration reform is enjoying a resurgence of support in both parties, with groups from a variety of backgrounds coming out in favor of a range of changes to our current system. The most striking change may be the melting of opposition to a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/01/24/getting-to-a-citizenship-consensus/
Jan 04
There is considerable debate at the moment over the prospects for immigration reform this year. On the one hand, an electorally chastened Republican Party seems to be reevaluating its long-standing support for deportation-only immigration policies. On the other hand, it looks as though the White House and Congress are embarking upon lengthy debates over gun …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/01/04/reasons-for-cautious-optimism-on-immigration-reform/
Dec 21
In the beginning of 2012, the landscape of the immigration world looked much different. Pro-immigrant groups were coming off of a rough few years that saw the failure of the DREAM Act, a spike in deportations under President Obama, and the passage of several state-level restrictionist bills like Arizona’s infamous SB 1070 and Alabama’s HB …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/12/21/countdown-of-the-top-five-immigration-stories-of-2012/
Nov 28
If you follow immigration, but are returning from a month-long, news-free vacation, there’s only one conclusion you would draw from the legislation Republicans offered up this week in Congress: Mitt Romney must have won the presidential election. After all, the ACHIEVE Act, introduced yesterday by retiring Senators Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/11/28/this-weeks-immigration-proposals-old-news-old-ideas/
Nov 26
Despite a general consensus that adopting “self-deportation” as immigration policy helped sink Mitt Romney’s White House aspirations, the architect of this philosophy, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, isn’t ready to give in. Kobach doesn’t seem to care that most in his party have awakened to the fact that they are in a “death spiral” …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/11/26/kris-kobach-continues-digging-immigration-hole/
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