Recently President Obama told the lawmakers that he will travel next month to Mexico to discuss escalating violence from drug cartels and immigration with Mexican President Felipe Calderon, White House officials said. During the campaign, Obama supported a comprehensive overhaul of immigration policy, including creation of a possible path to…
U.S. Representative Luis V. Gutierrez (D-IL) announced that he will spearhead a five-week national tour—visiting 14 U.S. cities—to document the harm caused to citizens across our nation in the absence of comprehensive immigration reform. In an unprecedented nationwide campaign, Gutierrez has partnered with local communities and churches to hold rallies…
Pro-immigrant advocates believe the Obama administration will have a window of opportunity between this September and March 2010 to shepherd a comprehensive immigration package that will provide a path to legalization for an estimated 12 million undocumented residents, strengthen border security and help the ailing economy. Part of their optimism…
A national poll suggests that President-elect Barack Obama is more popular than ever despite recent speed bumps on the road to hi s inauguration. Eighty-four percent of those surveyed say they approve of how Obama is handling the presidential transition. There have been no specific pronouncements of President-Elect Obama’s immigration…
Senate Bill 9’s stated purpose is to strengthen the U.S. economy, provide for additional border protection and security, add additional employment enforcement and reform and make clear existing avenues for legal immigration. It simply states that legislation should be enacted to achieve these purposes. This bill does not set forth…
The Senate and House of Representatives are back in Session today. This Congress is certainly promising on Immigration reform, but we are not so optimistic as to what will happen in practice. U.S. Congressman Bennie Thompson, chairman of the Homeland Security Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington,…
U.S. Border Patrol announced that they discovered an incomplete tunnel that originates in Tijuana, Mexico and stretches about 10 feet into San Diego. Several Taxi Drivers that cross in the area reported suspicious activity in that area. Border Patrol spokesman Julius Alatorre says an agency contractor discovered the tunnel when…
Many of our readers ask when comprehensive immigration reform will come up before Congress, Immigration Daily has learnt that it will come to the floor early in 2009 though it is not currently planned for Mr. Obama’s first 100 days. Sen. Menendez and Rep. Gutierrez are on the warpath for…
The Wall Street Journal reports today about a subject that often gets less exposure on the 2008 campaign trail: Immigration. What is interesting about this speech is that Obama finally talked about Immigration reform directly. This is interesting as the issue of comprehensive immigration reform seem to have lost momentum.…
White teens were charged in what officials said was a fatal beating of an illegal Mexican immigrant in a small northeast Pennsylvania coal town. Unless we educate our children to tolerate the immigrant population, we will hear of more stories like this one. There are 20 million illegal immigrants living…