Tag Archives: Immigration

  • Politics

    Official: Customs was not equipped to monitor student visas

    Customs officials have not had the technology to determine whether foreign students entering the U.S. were in compliance with their visas, said Rep. Peter King, former chairman of the Homeland Security Committee.

  • News may day

    Demand for immigration reform fuels May Day rallies

    May Day rallies around the country are taking on a particular urgency this year, with bipartisan immigration reform in the Senate.

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    Feds search for escaped detainees in Farmville

    Federal agents are looking for two men who escaped from a ICE detention center in Farmville on Monday.

  • News Immigration law

    IMMIGRATION: Republicans, Democrats to alter path to citizenship

    A bipartisan immigration reform bill could be introduced on Tuesday.

  • Politics immigration

    Springtime could be season for immigration reform

    Congress returns from spring break Monday, and immigration reform tops the agenda.

  • News President Obama talks with Prime Minister Netanyahu

    Obama expects debate on immigration reform bill next month

    (CNN) — Seeking to ignite congressional movement on immigration reform, President Obama said Monday he expects the Senate to take significant action on the issue next month.

  • News

    Did sequestration force release of state immigration detainees?

    U.S. Immigration officials are releasing hundreds of undocumented workers from detention centers across the country because of budget cuts caused by the sequestration.

  • News immigration

    Hundreds of undocumented immigrants released

    Two outspoken voices against illegal immigration blasted federal authorities’ recent release of hundreds of undocumented immigrants because of the impending federal spending cuts.

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    Illegal immigrants released from detention centers ahead of sequester

    Hundreds of undocumented immigrants are released from detention because of looming budget cuts set to take effect Friday

  • News

    Criticism erupts over leaked Immigration Reform plan

    A leaked version of President Barack Obama’s draft immigration plan raised Republican hackles while bringing some additional focus to the debate.

  • Politics immigration

    White House: Immigration plan is a sidebar to congressional action

    The draft included an eight-year path to permanent residency, and eventually citizenship, for illegal immigrants.

  • Politics dream act

    Virginia ‘Dream Act’ killed by Senate Committee

    Legislation that would have provided in-state tuition to the children of some illegal immigrants has been killed by lawmakers at the General Assembly.