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High-tech pushes for more in immigration bill
High-tech companies looking to bring more skilled workers to the U.S. pushed Monday for more concessions in an immigration bill pending in the Senate.
New approach to back immigration bill
President Barack Obama's political support group is joining with a Republican pro-immigration organization and an effort run by New York Mayor Michael ...
Obama tries to swat down 2 swirling controversies
President Barack Obama tried to swat down a pair of brewing controversies Monday, denouncing as "outrageous" the targeting of conservative political ...
Activists call on Obama to stop deportations
Immigration activists are calling on President Barack Obama to end deportations of immigrants who might be eligible for legal status under a new ...
Immigrant in Italy kills 1 in pickaxe rampage
An immigrant illegally living in Italy went on a rampage with a pickaxe in Milan at dawn Saturday, killing a passer-by and wounding four others in an ...
NYC weighs allowing many immigrants to vote
Agha Saleh came to the United States inspired by democratic ideals, but it took him years to achieve a basic one here : voting. He'd lived through ...
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 ...
40 years on, fleeing Vietnamese take to seas again
Nearly 40 years after hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese fled the country's Communist regime by boat, a growing number are taking to the water again.
For many Republicans, immigration is risky subject
Rodney Vandenberg was the first to greet Republican Sen. Deb Fischer when she dropped by the Falls City's Chamber of Commerce office last week.
Group of conservatives backs action on immigration
More than two dozen conservative leaders have signed on to a statement supporting action to overhaul the nation's immigration laws and calling ...
Study: Immigration bill would help Social Security
A bipartisan immigration bill pending in the Senate would strengthen the Social Security trust fund by adding millions of workers to tax rolls, and ...
APNewsBreak: 5 charged in CA immigration scam
Four federal law enforcement officers were charged with accepting cash, a TV, and plane tickets among bribes dating back more than a decade to help ...
Gay rights plan seen as threat to immigration bill
Religious leaders said Wednesday that adding a gay rights proposal to immigration legislation could risk their support for the bill, setting up a ...
UK gov't agenda focuses on immigration, economy
The message was one of thrift and austerity, but the messenger was opulence incarnate. Britain's Conservative-led government on Wednesday announced ...
Women's shelter boss, mayor vouch for Mike Tyson
Who can Mike Tyson turn to for a character reference? The mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey, for one, and the leader of Nevada's largest shelter for ...
GOP: Stronger borders or immigration bill will die
Landmark immigration legislation is doomed to fail in Congress unless border-security provisions are greatly strengthened, Republican senators bluntly ...
Biden asks clergy to make moral argument on guns
Vice President Joe Biden wants pastors, rabbis and nuns to tell their flocks that enacting gun control is the moral thing to do. But another vote may ...
Study sets off immigration bill squabble
A bipartisan Senate immigration bill would cost the government a net $6.3 trillion over the next 50 years to provide benefits for millions of people ...
Mass. GOP candidate Gomez on his own for now
Republican Senate candidate Gabriel Gomez is on his own — at least for now. National Republican allies, conservative activists and major GOP donors ...
Heritage: Immigration bill costs $6.3 trillion
The conservative Heritage Foundation is claiming in a new report that bipartisan immigration legislation pending in the Senate would cost taxpayers $6
Teen immigrant angst _ a factor in bombings?
Anna Tabakh didn't know a word of English. At age 5, a stranger in a strange land, she was en route with her parents from the Soviet Union to a new ...
Issues back home trail Obama on Latin America trip
President Barack Obama's trip to Latin America had a decidedly domestic feel, with issues such as immigration, energy and education that are in the ...
Obama: US, Latin America must strengthen economies
President Barack Obama came to Latin America eager to move the region's relationship with the U.S. beyond fighting drugs and organized crime, yet the ...
Obama supports including gays in immigration bill
President Barack Obama says he supports recognizing gay unions in a broad immigration bill pending in Congress but won't say whether he would sign ...