US Immigration News

Beginning almost a year ago and progressing into the spring of this year, the United States Congress and the White House made immigration reform a highly visible issue in preparation for the off-year election. However, intense political fighting over the details largely scuttled the debate and deadlocked meaningful progress at the federal level.

Wyoming has good work, and lots of it. The rural state in the west of the United States is experiencing an economic boom and is having trouble filling job positions across a wide variety of occupations.

The population of the United States hit the 300-million mark officially on 17 October, a milestone set to generate little celebration. Unlike the pomp and circumstance that greeted the 200-million mark in 1967, federal officials this year are not planning any major events to welcome the 300 millionth American, who many say will likely be Hispanic, possibly an illegal immigrant, but more likely to be a legal immigrant.

The debate on immigration will continue as members of Congress consider whether or not a guest worker program will become a reality in 2007. Although authors of the bill say it is not an amnesty program, features of the bill will help immigrants who have lived in the U.S. for two years and have an employer who will sponsor them. The proposed bill would allow those immigrants to live and work in the U.S.

President George W. Bush signed an executive order in July 2002 allowing immigrants with green cards to become United States citizens as soon as they are sworn in, according to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). Since then, more than 25,000 immigrant members of the armed services have become U.S.

According to the new figures from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, the economy added 810,000 more jobs than earlier e