by Jeremy Jennings | May 31, 2013 | Immigration Law Blog
News reports have indicated that the full Senate will begin debate on S.744, the comprehensive immigration reform bill, the week of June 10. The bill was passed out of the Judiciary Committee with bipartisan support. Now all members of the Senate have the...
by Jeremy Jennings | May 22, 2013 | Immigration Law Blog
The Senate Judiciary Committee closed debate on S.744, the comprehensive immigration reform bill, and voted to send the revised bill to the full Senate for consideration. Passage by the committee was the first major test of the immigration reform effort. Members of...
by Jeremy Jennings | May 22, 2013 | Immigration Law Blog
In a major development, the New York Times reported today that DHS will begin tracking departure data on the Canadian border. In collaboration with the Canadian government, biographic information contained on passports presented to Canadian border officials by persons...
by Jeremy Jennings | May 17, 2013 | Immigration Law Blog
Members of the House of Representatives who have been working on a bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform bill announced today that they had reached an “agreement in principle.” This is encouraging news as House Republicans yesterday threatened to...
by Jeremy Jennings | May 16, 2013 | Immigration Law Blog
As the Senate Judiciary Committee proceeds with “mark-up” of the comprehensive immigration bill, the bipartisan “Gang of 8” who authored the bill has largely been able to preserve it through the first two rounds focusing on border security and...
