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 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...
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...
