Coalition on immigration bill clears first tests The bipartisan coalition behind a contentious overhaul of immigration laws stuck together on a critical early series of test votes Thursday, turning back challenges from conservative critics as the Senate Judiciary Committee refined legislation to secure the nation's borders and offer eventual citizenship to millions living illegally in the United States. More
Obama to open middle-class jobs, opportunity tour Aiming to show he's still focused on creating jobs, President Barack Obama is beginning a series of quick trips around the country to resurrect ideas from his State of the Union address that became overshadowed by the intense debates over gun control, immigration and automatic spending cuts. More
Gun bill’s failure may help immigration legislation Here’s an odd political reality: The collapse of the gun bill in the Senate last week may well make the passage of immigration reform legislation slightly easier. “I think the continued intensity of the dysfunction of Congress on this [gun] vote will help immigration,” Democratic pollster John Anzalone said. More
Immigration bill would be largest such effort ever attempted After months of negotiations, a bipartisan group of eight senators is poised to offer a sweeping bill to rewrite the nation's immigration laws this week, taking advantage of a changed political alignment that, for the first time in nearly a generation, appears to have opened the way for comprehensive legislation. More
Generations of immigrants to the Lower East Side are celebrated in a new picture book Ellen Weinstein's "Five Stories" traces the inhabitants of a Lower East Side building, from a Jewish family in the 1910s to a Chinese family in the present. 04/23/2024 - 2:50 am | View Link
This Chinese American Aviatrix Overcame Racism to Fly for the U.S. During World War II A second-generation immigrant, Hazel Ying Lee was the first Chinese American woman to receive her pilot's license ... 04/23/2024 - 12:15 am | View Link
Commentary: Stop saying ‘immigrants do jobs Americans don’t want to do’ The deaths of six immigrant workers in the collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge on March 26 sparked the kind of collective empathy that usually follows tragic events. President ... 04/22/2024 - 10:30 pm | View Link
One in three Latinos say immigrants are affecting their social status in the U.S. A new study showed that many Latinos wish other Americans could differentiate between them and newly-arrived immigrants ... 04/22/2024 - 10:00 pm | View Link
Religious Landscape Study % of second generation immigrants who have a household income of $100,000 or more who say they… Share Save Image Sample sizes and margins of error vary from ... 04/19/2024 - 1:46 am | View Link