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
The US needs immigrants to fill jobs, but can't house them. Nowhere makes this more clear than New York City. As the US handles an uptick in asylum-seekers, pressure is mounting to solve the housing crisis. 05/7/2024 - 11:03 pm | View Link
Who are the immigrants coming to the US on humanitarian grounds, and how can they be supported? Immigration has become a defining issue in the 2024 elections and a major challenge in many U.S. cities. Over the past several years, wars and armed conflict, violent persecution and desperate poverty ... 05/7/2024 - 4:36 am | View Link
No, Low-Skilled Immigrants Don’t Cost Taxpayers Money To be clear, the positive fiscal estimate does not apply to all immigrants: They apply only to unskilled immigrants with a high school degree. Unskilled immigrants without a high school degree still ... 05/7/2024 - 12:30 am | View Link
Opinion: US needs immigrants, who will be powerful engine of economic growth With the US population growing older and people having fewer children, more immigrants are needed to replenish the population and bolster the economy. 05/4/2024 - 10:12 pm | View Link
Italian Heritage shared at Rockford Public Library meeting A Rockford man shares the history of Italian immigrants that settled into Rockford and their impacted in the area. 05/4/2024 - 5:58 pm | View Link