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Canadian minister visits N. Calif. on a campaign to lure Silicon Valley tech workers north
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The Canadian government has launched an aggressive campaign to lure Silicon Valley tech workers frustrated by U.S. visa policies northward, just as Congress wrestles with a long-sought overhaul of America's immigration...Tags: U.S. Senate, Interior Policy, Immigration, U.S. Congress, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013)
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Arizona's limits on immigrant driver's licenses upheld
TUCSON — Young people granted immigration relief and work permits under a new Obama administration program still won't be able to obtain driver's licenses in Arizona, a federal judge has ruled. Although the decision is a win for Republican Gov....
Tags: Government, Executive Branch, Justice System, Barack Obama, Court Preliminary
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Tech, labor brandish dueling studies in immigration fight
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The technology industry and organized labor are locked in a fight that threatens to complicate the U.S. Senate's immigration bill. At the heart of the debate is whether there is a shortage of Americans with the math and science...Tags: AFL-CIO, Justice System, Barack Obama, Technology, Work Relations
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House bill to have more stringent immigrant controls: aides
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan plan brokered in the House of Representatives will be tougher on illegal immigrants living in the United States than a Senate counterpart, congressional aides said on Friday. But it fails to address the difficult issue...Tags: AFL-CIO, Justice System, Barack Obama, Illegal Immigrants, Labor Legislation
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House lawmakers reach tentative deal to revamp immigration
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Prospects for passage of a major immigration bill improved on Thursday when a bipartisan group of lawmakers in the House of Representatives declared they had reached a tentative deal, resolving disputes that had threatened to...Tags: John A. Yarmuth, Barack Obama, Labor Legislation, National Security, Elections
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House immigration group reaches 'agreement in principle'
WASHINGTON -- A bipartisan group of House lawmakers has reached an "agreement in principle" on a sweeping immigration bill that would parallel work underway in the Senate, sources said Thursday. The consensus, reached after a private evening meeting,...
Tags: Immigration, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), John Boehner, Politics
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Senate panel focuses on enforcement in immigration bill
WASHINGTON — Senators kept the bipartisan immigration bill largely unchanged Thursday after dispatching dozens of proposed amendments even as they punted many of the thorniest issues to next week. The day's session at the Senate Judiciary...
Tags: Chuck Grassley, Justice System, Lindsey O. Graham, Mike Lee, U.S. Congress
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Greek parliament evicts far-right lawmaker for volley of insults
ReutersATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's parliament evicted a far-right lawmaker for insulting rivals in a tumultuous debate on Friday that prompted jeers of "Heil Hitler" from a leftist deputy and bolstered calls to crack down on the nationalist Golden Dawn party....Tags: Justice System, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Crime, Law and Justice, Immigration, Justice and Rights
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Canada deports Palestinian hijacker after 25-year legal battle
ReutersOTTAWA (Reuters) - After a 25-year legal battle, Canada has finally deported a Palestinian convicted of an attack on an Israeli airliner in 1968, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said on Monday. Mahmoud Mohammad Issa Mohammad, a former Popular Front for...Tags: Government, National Government, Palestine, Immigration, Politics
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Villaraigosa denounces mayoral ads aimed at Latinos
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Thursday waded into the heated contest to choose his successor, calling for two ads aimed at Latino voters that attack candidates Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel to be taken off the airwaves. Both were financed...
Tags: David Axelrod, Social Issues, Barack Obama, Antonio Villaraigosa, Illegal Immigrants
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U.S. House bill to have more stringent immigrant controls -aides
Reuters* Longer path to citizenship than Senate measure * Republicans, Democrats deadlocked on low-skilled workers By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON, May 17 (Reuters) - A bipartisan plan brokered in the House of Representatives will be tougher on illegal immigrants...Tags: AFL-CIO, Justice System, Barack Obama, Illegal Immigrants, Labor Legislation
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Immigration reform, border security benefits the beef industry
National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA) members have made immigration reform one of the organization's key issues for my term as president, so I have been pleased to see our elected officials also take it up as a priority. Although we are a long...Tags: Government, Washington, DC, Public Officials, Immigration, U.S. Congress
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