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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama revisited a key campaign promise when he hosted a White House meeting of elected officials and experts on immigration. But if a major overhaul of the nation's immigration policy is his goal, Republicans in Congress say he shouldn't hold his breath. They say any bill that even hints at amnesty or legalization for millions of illegal immigrants already living and working in the United States is dead before it ever makes an appearance in a congressional committee. A path to citizenship is "what has doomed all immigration legislation in the last two ...
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A new bill aimed at curbing illegal immigration is causing controversy in Alabama. House Bill 56, modeled on similarly controversial immigration legislation in Arizona, passed the Alabama House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee today. That means it will move on to debate by the full House of Representatives as early as Thursday. Here's the lowdown on HB 56, which prompted opposition rallies in Montgomery even before it reached the committee vote. It would require immigration status checks for workers The Montgomery Advertiser reports that HB 56 would mandate use of the federal ...
I was a writer in Ronald Reagan's re-election campaign in 1984, a fact I usually don't mention until I get, say, two sentences into conversation with anyone I meet. I only met the president once in a grip-and-grin reception for staff. But because of my role, however minor, in the success of the greatest chief executive of my lifetime, I will be among those heartily celebrating the centennial of his birth. And then I will exhort my fellow Republicans to move on. This sentiment isn't fashionable right now, as the Great Communicator is more admired than ever. GOP leaders extol his bold tax and ...
Welcome to America! U.S. Border Patrol agents made an interesting discovery when they stopped a car 50 miles east of San Diego earlier this month. Inside the trunk of a BWM that was allegedly being driven by immigrant smugglers from Mexico, they found Said Jaziri, a Muslim cleric from Tunisia who was deported from Canada more than three years ago. Jaziri is believed to have hopped a border fence near Tecate, the Los Angeles Times reported, hiked through the desert and met up with the driver of the BMW at a place known as a rendezvous point for immigrant smugglers. So who is Said Jaziri? ...
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(Dec. 15) -- Authorities continue to search today for a fifth suspect in the death of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, who was shot during a gun fight late Tuesday night. Terry, 40, and a team of agents were in a remote part of the desert last night trying to track down a group of thieves who were believed to have been stealing from illegal immigrants. Just after 11 p.m., the agents encountered the men in an area north of Nogales, Ariz., known as Peck Canyon, and Terry was killed in the ensuing gunfight. Four of the five men involved in his death have been captured, and the fifth is still on ...
(Dec. 8) -- Does Congress love a dream? The Dream Act, legislation designed to give children of undocumented workers who came to the United States under the age 16 a path to citizenship in exchange for a promise to attend college or join the military, will be debated in Congress today. Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions, a staunch opponent of the Dream Act, penned an op-ed for CNN in which he stated the following: Because the Dream Act does not expire, or impose any numerical cap, the scope of the bill's amnesty program could be enormous. And by rewarding illegality, the legislation ...
With time running out on the lame-duck session of Congress, the Senate will plow through a series of items Wednesday afternoon, including a vote on the controversial immigration bill known as the DREAM Act and possibly on the Defense Authorization bill, which includes an amendment to begin to repeal "Don't ask, don't tell," the policy that bans openly gay men and women from serving in the military. But each faces a filibuster from Republicans after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and his caucus promised to block consideration of any legislation until the Senate has resolved questions ...
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