The Gang of Eight introduced its 844 page immigration reform bill, in April and the debate on immigration reform is heating up. Several amendments to this bill have been filed and the Senate Judiciary Committee is debating on those amendments. This bill is likely to be amended several times but the senators who came up […]
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The Senate Judiciary Committee met last week and debated on few amendments. 21 amendments that were filed to the immigration reform bill were adopted and the committee will meet again today and debate on a few more amendments. Last week, the committee reviewed the first part of the Senate bill that deals with border security.
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A proposal for comprehensive immigration reform was introduced by the US Senate’s “Gang of Eight”, in April and this immigration reform bill includes a 13 year path to US citizenship for the undocumented residents. In 2004, senators Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., and John McCain, R-Ariz., worked together and introduced an immigration reform bill. The top priority
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The immigration reform bill of the Gang of Eight would ease social security finance strains. In a letter to Senator Marco Rubio, the Social Security Administration stated that the Senate bill would positively affect the finances of Social Security. Likewise, it would also boost the gross domestic product and create around 3.22 million jobs, over
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It is first mandatory to understand who the undocumented immigrants are. Undocumented immigrants are a part of the United States who do to have legal status. Most of them were brought up in the country and they know only the United States. There are around 11 million such immigrants who had either crossed the borders
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Around 300 amendments were filed to the bipartisan immigration reform bill of the Gang of Eight and a formal debate over the amendments was opened by the Senate. The Senate Judiciary Committee debated and voted on 31 amendments. Only 21 amendments were adopted and the rest were rejected. Most of the amendments dealt with border
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The Senate bill would change the family based and the employment based immigration system. It would eliminate certain categories and would raise the visa caps for certain categories. It would create a new merit based system and eliminate the backlog in the current family preference system. Moreover, this immigration reform bill would legalize the nation’s
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The Senators responded to the immigration reform bill of the “Gang of Eight” and they have filed 301 amendments. Half of these amendments are from the Senate Republicans and according to them, DNA samples must be collected from the undocumented immigrants before granting them legal status and all the undocumented workers must not be permitted
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The senators unveiled an immigration reform bill in April and the bill will soon receive feedback from the Judiciary Committee. Some lawmakers are happy about the bill but there are many who are against it as there are few positive and negative consequences. The bill would legalize undocumented immigrants, stiffen border security, mandate E-verify and
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Many now hope that the US Congress will soon pass the long awaited immigration reform bill. Immigration reform will not only help the undocumented immigrants to obtain legal status but will also help the US employers who are unable to find legal workers and who hire undocumented immigrants. President Obama, who is happy about the
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