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DHS Begins Tracking Exit Data on Canadian Border
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...
House “Gang” Works It Out
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 back out of...
Senate Gang Holds Together; House Gang Mulls Split
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 non-immigrant visa...
Can immigration reform really be made much more `conservative’?
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 are going to...
Hundreds of Amendments to S.744 Submitted
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...
Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act
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 four Republicans...
