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Senator pulls same-sex proposal for immigration bill
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - An influential Democratic senator on Tuesday withdrew a proposal to allow U.S. citizens to petition for their same-sex spouses to immigrate to the United States, in an effort to maintain support for a broad immigration bill....Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Justice System, Patrick Leahy, Social Issues
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Senator pulls same-sex proposal for U.S. immigration bill
ReutersWASHINGTON, May 21 (Reuters) - An influential Democratic senator on Tuesday withdrew a proposal to allow U.S. citizens to petition for their same-sex spouses to immigrate to the United States, in an effort to maintain support for a broad immigration bill....Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Justice System, Patrick Leahy, Social Issues
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Obama says immigration bill conforms to his principles, urges Senate to start debate soon
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says a far-reaching immigration overhaul approved by a Senate panel is largely consistent with his own principles. He says the bill meets the challenge of fixing a broken U.S. immigration system. The Senate...Tags: Washington, DC, Crime, Law and Justice, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Justice System, Barack Obama
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An Alabama senator's lost cause
WASHINGTON — Not since George Wallace, perhaps, has an Alabamian taken as passionate a stand for a lost cause as the one Jeff Sessions is taking now. Bipartisan immigration legislation is making its way inexorably through the Senate Judiciary...Tags: Justice System, Orrin Hatch, Elections, Migration, Parties and Movements
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Obama meets with young immigrants, encourages them to speak out
WASHINGTON -- President Obama met Tuesday with young immigrants and others who expressed their fear that family members will be deported and their hope that Congress will pass new immigration laws to keep families intact. Obama urged the group to...
Tags: Justice System, Elections, Barack Obama, Migration, Career and Workplace
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Sen. Orrin Hatch emerges as key GOP vote on immigration
WASHINGTON – When Sen. Orrin Hatch takes his seat on the dais in the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, the 79-year-old slides into his status as the most sought-after vote for immigration reform. A towering but genteel figure, Hatch is seen...
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Senators reach deal to ease high tech rules in immigration bill
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senators reached a tentative deal with tech companies to ease restrictions on hiring foreigners for high-skilled jobs in the Senate's sweeping immigration bill, sources familiar with the talks said on Tuesday. For about a week,...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Chuck Schumer, Justice System, Orrin Hatch
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Tentative deal reached on high-tech visas in immigration bill
WASHINGTON — The outlines of a possible agreement emerged Tuesday on the criteria for high-skilled visas in the immigration overhaul, potentially paving the way for a key Republican senator to support the sweeping legislation and give it a boost...
Tags: Personal Data Collection, Justice System, Orrin Hatch, Elections, Career and Workplace
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Conservatives, tea party leaders seek to block immigration bill
WASHINGTON – Top conservative leaders, along with tea party activists from across the nation, have crafted a letter of opposition to the Senate’s bipartisan immigration overhaul. The open letter to the Senate, which will be released Tuesday,...Tags: Illegal Immigrants, Entertainment, Migration, Career and Workplace, Politics
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Union of federal workers opposes immigration bill
WASHINGTON — Senators pushed forward Monday with changes to a sweeping immigration overhaul over the objections of a union of immigration officers that announced its opposition to the bill. The legislation, written by a bipartisan group of...
Tags: Personal Data Collection, Justice System, Orrin Hatch, Elections, Migration
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Immigration bill: Gang label amendment goes down
The Senate Judiciary Committee continued its markup of a bipartisan immigration reform bill Monday, rejecting an amendment by Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) that would have barred undocumented immigrants who are merely suspected of belonging to a gang,...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Justice System, Chuck Grassley, Migration
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U.S. panel votes to speed up airport fingerprinting of immigrants
Reuters* Major U.S. airports would be first to install equipment * Negotiations continue over high-tech visas By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON, May 20 (Reuters) - High-tech systems for tracking the movements of immigrants and other foreigners when leaving the...Tags: Personal Data Collection, Illegal Immigrants, Orrin Hatch, Justice System, Migration
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