Insight, News, and Strategy on Immigration Matters Around the World
Author: Rob Neale.
On March 12, 2015, the federal government filed an emergency motion with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit seeking to remove the preliminary injunction issued on February 16, 2015, by U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen, based in Brownsville, Texas.
Judge Hanen’s preliminary injunction, requested by 26 states, suspended key…
Federal Judge Andrew Hanen of the Southern District of Texas has ordered the suspension of two key aspects of President Obama’s November 2014 Executive Action on immigration: (1) the expansion of the “DACA” (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) program and (2) the new “DAPA” (Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and [of] Lawful Permanent Residents).…
In his seventh State of the Union speech on January 20, 2015, President Barack Obama said that Congress cannot afford to be “refighting past battles on immigration when we’ve got a system to fix” and stated that he will veto any effort to roll back his executive order, announced last November, to provide relief to…
On January 14, 2015, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 236-191 to overturn Obama’s Executive Action Policy that calls for deferred deportation of millions of immigrants currently in the United States. The underlying bill passed mostly on a party-line vote, with 10 Republicans voting against it and two Democrats voting in favor.
The House bill…
AUTHOR: Robert Neale.
President Obama announced today that he will address the nation on Thursday evening, November 20, 2014, to announce the executive actions he will be taking on immigration reform. A follow up speech is scheduled for Friday in Las Vegas, Nevada, to provide additional details regarding his plan.
Advocates for immigration reform have…
“It’s time for us to take care of business,” President Barack Obama announced to the press after the elections last week. The administration may take executive action on immigration soon. With most of those races now decided, the President sounded a note of impatience: “I can’t wait another two years,” he said in the briefing.…
While Barack President Obama has delayed taking action on deportations to give House Republicans the opportunity to take action on immigration reform, it seems unlikely to happen soon.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) released a memo, dated June 6, 2014, outlining the GOP-led House’s legislative priorities for June. Among them are government funding on…
Whispers of potential congressional compromise on the red hot issue of legal and illegal immigration to this country gave renewed hope of a comprehensive solution, although it may take some time. While the original Senate bill designed to overhaul the nation’s tangled immigration architecture, “Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act,” or S. 744…
Frequent Blog contributor, Otieno Ombok, was published in the Fall 2013 Edition of HV Manufacturing, the Magazine of the Council of Industry. The complete article, The Tipping Point for Immigration Reform, is available at www.councilofindustry.org.
In the midst of the government shutdown, House Democrats have just released their own comprehensive immigration reform bill. Their likely aim is to keep immigration reform, which had been front and center since the 2012 elections, a hot topic as other issues occupy the national debate and relations between party leaders continue to deteriorate.
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