The Senate Judiciary Committee approved and passed the Senate immigration reform bill and the full Senate is likely to consider the bill, in June. The bill would bring the undocumented immigrants out of the shadows and grant them authorization to apply for legal status. Moreover, the bill would benefit the high tech industry and it […]
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An amendment that would strengthen the EB-5 immigrant investor visa program has been added to the Gang of Eight’s massive immigration reform bill. This EB-5 visa program grants visas to foreign investors. Nevertheless, there are certain requirements and the foreign nationals who seek to get Green Cards based on investment must invest more than $500,000,
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Immigration reform will reunite families and would prevent undocumented immigrants from becoming criminals. According to a study released by Human Rights Watch, 85,000 immigrants were prosecuted for crossing the border illegally and for re-entering the country illegally, in 2013. One of the main reasons for illegal entry is to reunite with family members and more
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The Senate Judiciary Committee passed the immigration reform bill of the Gang of Eight after adopting few amendments and after making few changes to the bill. Proponents of immigration reform say that the bill would easily pass the Senate but not the House that is controlled by the Republicans. The Democrats are happy about the
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The proponents of immigration reform are now happy as the immigration reform bill of the Senate has passed the Senate Judiciary Committee. This sweeping immigration reform bill would grant legal status to most of the country’s undocumented immigrants. The Judiciary Committee has approved some amendments and has strengthened the bill but has not completely changed
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Conservative Economists urged the US Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform. Conservative economists in a letter stated that immigration reform would have a positive impact on population growth and on job growth and that it would result in economic growth. According to the economists, this would positively impact the federal budget and 111 economists signed
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The Senators after debating for 5 days, have strengthened the immigration reform bill of the Gang of Eight. The amended bill would strengthen America’s borders, mandate E-verify, modernize the country’s immigration system and fix the visa overstay problem. This improved bill would address the needs of the country. 301 amendments were filed by the senators
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The Gang of Eight’s immigration reform bill is headed to the Senate floor. This bill if passed would benefit the undocumented immigrants by permitting them to enter the legalization process. Likewise, US employers who are in short of low skilled workers could hire low skilled foreign workers legally as the bill would create new visa
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There are millions of undocumented immigrants in America and about 40 percent of them have fallen out-of-status as they have overstayed their visas. The Gang of Eight that includes 8 bipartisan Senators, crafted an immigration reform legislation and 301 amendments were filed to that bill. The Senators debated on all the sections of the bill and
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The Senate immigration reform bill cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee and the committee voted to pass the Senate immigration bill on a bipartisan vote of 13 to 5, on to the Senate floor for a full vote. The Senate Judiciary Committee met for five days and debated on various amendments that were filed to the
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