Immigration Reform
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CAPS TV Ad Asks Florida If Adding 33 Million More Foreign Workers And $6.3 Trillion In Welfare For Illegal Aliens Is Their Idea Of Immigration Reform
Posted 5 hours ago
Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS) has launched TV ads in the state of Florida calling attention to the impact the Senate immigration reform bill will have on Florida residents. The bill is sponsored by Florida Senator Marco Rubio, who has become the public spokesperson for the...
CompTIA Applauds Compromise Reached on S. 744, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013
Posted 1 day ago
WASHINGTON, May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- CompTIA, the non-profit association for the information technology (IT) industry, today issued the following statement regarding on S.744, the recent Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013. The...
Partnership for a New American Economy, Organizing for Action, and Republicans for Immigration Reform Kick Off the Largest-Ever Virtual March on Washington
Posted 1 day ago
The Partnership for a New American Economy, Organizing for Action (OFA), and Republicans for Immigration Reform today kicked off the March for Innovation (#iMarch), the largest-ever virtual march on Washington in support of bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform. The March, a two-day event...
Immigration Reform Victory in the Senate!
Posted 1 day ago
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS) welcomes yesterday's landmark vote by the Senate Judiciary Committee to pass the bipartisan Gang of Eight's immigration reform bill, S.744. "The Senate Judiciary Committee vote to pass S.744 marks a major bipartisan advance towards a more fair and...
National League of Cities Applauds Senate Judiciary Committee Moving Immigration Reform to Senate Floor
Posted 1 day ago
The following statement is from National League of Cities' President, Marie Lopez Rogers, mayor, Avondale, AZ responding to the Senate Judiciary Committee passing on S. 744, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act. (Logo:...
Judiciary Committee Approves Immigration Bill that Rewards Illegal Aliens, Undermines American Workers and Imperils Homeland Security, Says FAIR
Posted 1 day ago
As expected, the Senate Judiciary Committee completed its mark-up of the Gang of Eight immigration bill, S.744, with few, if any, substantive changes that offer protection to American workers and taxpayers, or even safeguard our national security, charged the Federation for American...
Top U.S. Law Firms File Multiple Human Trafficking Lawsuits Against Signal International, LLC
Posted 2 days ago
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today announced an unprecedented collaborative effort by several of the country's most prestigious law firms to prosecute, on a pro bono basis, multiple human trafficking lawsuits against Signal International, LLC and its network of recruiters and labor...
LIRS Welcomes Pro-Family Unity Amendments to Senate Immigration Reform Bill
Posted 2 days ago
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS) supports moves by Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI) to amend the Senate immigration reform bill, S.744, in ways that would strengthen American communities by keeping families intact. "This is the moment for members of the Senate Judiciary Committee to...
Move to Widen Indefinite Detention of Migrants Defies American and Christian Values
Posted 3 days ago
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS) condemns attempts to amend the Senate immigration reform bill, S.744, to expand indefinite detention of migrants, limit the use of alternatives to detention, and make it harder for migrants to obtain access to legal counsel. "Families and...
LIRS Opposes Threats to Gut Senate Bill's Provisions to Help Refugees
Posted 3 days ago
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS) opposes attempts to amend the Senate immigration reform bill, S. 744, in ways that would undermine America's global leadership in protecting refugees. "S. 744 includes many important reforms that would improve the way the United States protects and...
Entravision at the Fourth Annual Radio Ink Hispanic Radio Conference in Miami, Florida
Posted 1 week ago
WHAT: Entravision Communications Corporation (NYSE: EVC), a diversified Spanish-language media company, will make a prominent appearance at this year's Radio Ink Hispanic Radio Conference – the fourth annual event that will bring together the best minds in Hispanic radio to...
Marco Rubio's Deceptive Amnesty Ad
Posted 1 week ago
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) appears in a new television advertisement designed to promote the immigration bill currently being debated in the Senate. The 60-second spot calls the proposal "conservative immigration reform" and is intended to make amnesty appealing to Republican voters. Partisan...
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Announces Release of Transcripts For the Sexual Assault in the Military Briefing & the Civil Rights Effects of State Immigration Laws Briefing
Posted 1 week ago
The United States Commission on Civil Rights announces that it has released the transcripts for the briefing held on January 11, 2013 on the topic of Sexual Assault in the Military and the August 17, 2012 field briefing on the Civil Rights Effects of State Immigration Laws. The briefing...
Whim of the Public: One Third of Americans Don't Care About Immigration Reform (iMediaEthics Poll)
Posted 1 week ago
Even though most media polls report that nearly everyone has an opinion on immigration, a new iMediaEthics poll has found that about a third of the public doesn't have any position at all. Because most polls don't offer respondents the chance to admit they don't have an opinion or don't know...
Abenomics Must Succeed with Fiscal, Monetary and Growth Policies to Boost Economy, According to Mellon Capital
Posted 1 week ago
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic agenda must succeed on three fronts -- fiscal, monetary and growth policies -- to generate a lasting positive effect on that nation's economy, according to a white paper from Mellon Capital Management Corporation, the San Francisco-based...
