Jan
04
BY MELANIE NEZER, HEBREW IMMIGRANT AID SOCIETY (HIAS) Tucked into the fiscal year 2012 spending bill the President signed before the holidays was an extension of a provision known as the “Lautenberg Amendment.” The inclusion of the extension is good news for refugees seeking religious freedom at a time when Congress has deadlocked on immigration …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/01/04/celebrating-a-legislative-victory-for-refugees-and-religious-freedom/
Dec
13
Congress has been unable to pass any meaningful immigration legislation this year, but the House couldn’t miss a chance to stick it to immigrants by going after their U.S. citizen children in a recent tax bill. While Americans are debating whether taxes on millionaires should be raised, the House, at least, is planning to raise …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/12/13/just-in-time-for-the-holidays-congress-moves-4-million-children-closer-to-poverty/
Nov
22
Thousands gathered outside the historic 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama yesterday to demand the repeal of the state’s harsh anti-immigration law, HB 56. Religious, community and civil rights leaders, as well as a special Congressional delegation, urged state legislators to bring an end to Alabama’s immigration law—a law which continues to slow state …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/11/22/thousands-rally-for-repeal-of-alabama%e2%80%99s-extreme-anti-immigrant-law/
Nov
07
Twenty five years ago this week, President Ronald Reagan signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), an immigration reform bill which, despite a contentious debate, managed to pass a Republican Senate and a Democratic House. In fact, Reagan called the immigration bill one of the “most difficult legislative undertakings of recent memory” but one …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/11/07/remembering-the-benefits-of-irca-25-years-later/
Oct
26
An immigration bill introduced by Congressmen Lamar Smith and Jason Chaffetz and supported by Democrats may actually have a chance at passing in Congress. Scheduled for a mark up this week, the bill (H.R. 3012) would make small but significant changes to the way green cards are distributed by eliminating per country numerical limits on …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/10/26/a-small-step-towards-reform-bipartisan-bill-seeks-to-raise-per-country-immigration-caps/
Oct
17
It was clear from the outset that Friday’s Congressional hearing on U.S.-Mexico border security was going to be light on data and heavy on bluster. The tabloid-style title of the hearing said it all: “A Call to Action: Narco-Terrorism’s Threat to the Southern U.S. Border.” Not surprisingly, it proved to be a largely fact-free performance. …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/10/17/house-hearing-new-report-add-to-hysterical-narrative-on-border-security/
Oct
14
Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit temporarily blocked two controversial provisions of Alabama’s extreme immigration law, HB 56. A federal appeals court enjoined the provision requiring public school to determine the immigration status of enrolling students and the status of their parents as well as the provision that made it a …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/10/14/federal-appeals-court-enjoins-two-provisions-of-alabama%e2%80%99s-extreme-immigration-law/
Oct
13
The luster may be wearing off Republican attacks on DHS’s prosecutorial discretion policies. Efforts to paint the prioritization of cases as “backdoor amnesty” didn’t seem to go anywhere in yesterday’s hearing on immigration enforcement in the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement. ICE Director John Morton defended the prosecutorial discretion guidance he issued earlier this …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/10/13/restrictionist-gop-members-rely-on-scare-tactics-in-hearing-on-prosecutorial-discretion/
Sep
26
BY TYLER MORAN, NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER While Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX) promises that his mandatory E-Verify legislation (HR 2885) is a jobs creation bill, the mark-up of the bill in the House Judiciary Committee last week proved that it is anything but. Though the bill passed the committee by a 22-13 party line vote, …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/09/26/despite-lamar-smith%e2%80%99s-claims-e-verify-is-not-a-jobs-bill/
Sep
20
Rep. Lamar Smith may find himself whistling in the wind this week as members of his own party continue to blast his E-Verify proposal. Smith’s bill, The “Legal Workforce Act” H.R. 2885, which continues to get marked up this week by the House Judiciary Committee, would make E-Verify mandatory nationwide. Conservative lawmakers, Tea Partiers, and …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/09/20/mandatory-e-verify-an-enforcement-proposal-even-conservatives-don%e2%80%99t-like/
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