by Jeremy Jennings | May 10, 2013 | Immigration Law Blog
That’s the title of yesterday’s opinion piece by Greg Sargent at the Washington Post. He writes: The bottom line is that it’s not clear how much more conservative the bill can meaningfully be made at this point. The basic story remains that Republicans...
by Jeremy Jennings | May 8, 2013 | Immigration Law Blog
Today was the deadline for the Senate Judiciary Committee to submit proposed amendments to the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act and more than two hundred such amendments were filed. Though several amendments were filed to...
by Jeremy Jennings | May 1, 2013 | Immigration Law Blog
Senate Bill 744, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act, has been introduced and is being debated in the U.S. Senate. The 844-page bill is a result of the work of the bipartisan “Gang of 8”–four Democrats and...
by Jeremy Jennings | Apr 20, 2013 | Immigration Law Blog
It’s been a pretty remarkable year in immigration politics. A year ago, the Republican primaries pushed Mitt Romney to advocate “self-deportation” as his principal strategy to the immigration issue–a strategy endorsing Arizona and Alabama-type...
by Jeremy Jennings | Apr 7, 2013 | Immigration Law Blog
Immigration reform has been all over the news since Obama’s re-election. Groups in both chambers of Congress report that they are very close to releasing immigration bills. Remember that the introduction of a bill is the starting point of the process. Each...
