Senior Republican says no to US illegal immigration reform
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18:42 27/08/2013
A senior Republican Congressman has said that he is opposed to the creation of a 'pathway to citizenship' for all illegal immigrants in the US. This may signal a hardening of attitudes of Republicans...
US Representatives face summer of immigration pressure
14:50 08/08/2013
Congressmen and women have gone home for the summer recess while Congress is closed in August. President Obama had hoped that Congress would, by now, have passed an immigration reform bill but there...
Legal US immigrants barred from work by E-Verify
14:16 07/08/2013
Hundreds of thousands of immigrants to the US who have valid work visas could be prevented from taking up employment due to a faulty government database. The E-Verify system is a web-based database...
US Republican censured for racist anti-immigrant remarks
15:59 31/07/2013
The speaker of the US House of Representatives, John Boehner, has criticised a Republican Representative for making racist remarks about Mexican illegal immigrants. The remarks were made by...
US Senator says immigration reform bill can win support of House
18:56 24/07/2013
A Democratic Congressman, Luis Gutierrez, has said that the comprehensive immigration reform bill currently before Congress has enough support to become law and has called on the Republican leader in...
UK benefitting from US immigration deadlock
15:42 19/07/2013
The UK's tech sector has been growing fast in recent years. Industry insiders say that this is, at least in part, because US tech companies cannot get visas to bring skilled workers into the US...
