Why Immigration Reform and Gun Control Aren’t in Competition
…one time; the real question is whether a policy issue has coalesced to the point that legislation can not only be proposed, but can pass. We routinely see calls for…
Read MorePosted by Mary Giovagnoli | Jan 10, 2013 | Legislation, Reform
…one time; the real question is whether a policy issue has coalesced to the point that legislation can not only be proposed, but can pass. We routinely see calls for…
Read MorePosted by | Aug 31, 2011 | Economics, Enforcement, Family-Based Immigration, Humanitarian Protection, Integration, Legislation
…creates a Congressional Joint Select Committee, commonly referred to as the Super Committee, a bipartisan working group of 12 members of Congress to recommend at least $1.2 trillion in additional…
Read MorePosted by Seth Hoy | Aug 3, 2010 | Economics, Enforcement, Reform, State and Local
…rights groups. In Ohio, state representative Courtney Combs (R-Hamilton) is revising Ohio’s version of Arizona’s law to avoid potential lawsuits: Filing an Arizona-style bill “would be wasting taxpayers’ money,” Combs…
Read MorePosted by American Immigration Council Staff | Mar 11, 2010 | Reform
…delay obviously adds to disillusionment. Immigration reform would seal the community’s commitment to the Democratic Party. Majority Whip, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), commented that moving reform forward this year is…
Read MorePosted by Amanda Peterson Beadle | May 2, 2013 | Family-Based Immigration, Integration, Legislation, Reform
…reform. “We have the best chance we have had in 25 years to pass comprehensive immigration reform this year in Washington, D.C.,” he said “We have to seize that opportunity.”…
Read MorePosted by Kristin Macleod-Ball | Jul 3, 2019 | Asylum, Detention, Due Process & the Courts, Humanitarian Protection, Immigration Courts
Attorney General William Barr announced in April 2019 plans to eliminate bond hearings for immigrants who pass an asylum screening interview after entering the United States. This would have forced…
Read MorePosted by American Immigration Council Staff | Jun 25, 2009 | Integration, Legislation, Reform
…from different countries and backgrounds stood as one in an effort to push Congress to pass the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act (DREAM Act). From Orange County…
Read MorePosted by Aaron Reichlin-Melnick | Sep 13, 2021 | Immigration 101, Legislation, Reform
…starting point. After it passes through the House of Representatives, the Senate must introduce and pass its own version of the bill, which may be different. That bill will also…
Read MorePosted by Seth Hoy | Dec 21, 2011 | Enforcement, State and Local
…policies—policies which continue to hurt families and cost communities. People want real solutions to immigration. As we head into 2012, an election year, we can only hope that common sense…
Read MorePosted by American Immigration Council Staff | Jan 4, 2011 | Elections, Legislation
Despite the very public failure on the part of the 111th Congress to pass any type of comprehensive immigration reform (including the collapse of the DREAM Act), Sen. Robert Menendez…
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