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Coming to America

"Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery." - Jack Parr

America's melting pot is on fire. Twelve million illegal immigrants currently live in the US, and nearly 900,000 more arrive each year. Yet the immigration reform that topped President Bush's second-term agenda has stalled as a skittish Congress attacks the proposal from left and right; meanwhile, a different kind of debate is heating up over skilled immigrants, and whether American firms need more to stay competitive.

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June 2007
- Immigration Bill Brings Out 'Best,' 'Worst' of America
  
  New Republic | Jun 15, 07 2:22 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Calling the immigration bill currently fighting its way through the Senate "the best that liberals are likely to get," the New Republic 's editors tepidly endorsed the legislation that would bring 12M laborers closer to US citizenship even as they condemned the implications of the bill's proposed guest-worker program. More »
- Senate Leaders Reach Deal to Revive Immigration Bill
  
  Associated Press | Jun 15, 07 8:42 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Derailed last week, the controversial immigration bill will get a second chance, Senate leaders from both parties announced last night. The statement followed days of closed-door negotiations, the AP reports, and a personal pledge from President Bush to immediately provide $4.4 billion for border security—a key concern of conservative Republican Senators. More »
- Bush Lobbies for Immigration Bill
  
  CNN | Jun 12, 07 3:28 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - President Bush took the unusual step of climbing Capitol Hill today to pressure members of his own party on the stalled immigration bill. After a lunch meeting with GOP senators, CNN reports, the president warned that passing the signature legislation of his second term will take "a lot of effort"—as will persuading 15 senators to change their votes. More »
- Report: White House Stacking Immigration Courts
  
  Washington Post | Jun 11, 07 5:20 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The White House is illegally packing the nation's immigration courts with GOP partisans, circumventing civil service rules to appoint administration insiders and cronies, according to a Washington Post analysis of relevant records. A third of judges appointed to the immigration bench since 2004 have been party loyalists, and half had no experience in immigration law, the Post reports today. More »
- Dems Withdraw Immigration Bill
  
  New York Times | Jun 8, 07 4:50 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The hotly contested immigration reform bill collapsed on the Senate floor Thursday, after appearing to survive challenges from detractors in both parties. The measure fell 15 votes short of a move to curtail debate and move toward a final vote. That leaves it stalled, although the New York Times reports it may be revived later this year. More »
- Feds Arrest 29 Illegals in New Haven
  
  Associated Press | Jun 7, 07 12:21 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Immigration agents arrested 29 illegal immigrants in New Haven on Wednesday, two days after the city OKed a new program to give municipal ID cards to illegals. The Mayor was skeptical of the timing, suggesting the feds targeted the city politically. "There are in America 11,000 cities, towns and villages," he pointed out, "and within 36 hours the response is in New Haven." More »
- Immigration Bill Survives Senate Onslaught
  
  Washington Post | Jun 7, 07 4:57 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The immigration bill before the Senate dodged bullets from the right and the left yesterday; when the smoke cleared the coalition backing it appeared to be intact—if barely, the Washington Post reports. An amendment to block legalization for many illegals was defeated; one to extend visas to many more relatives of immigrants was passed. More »
- Immigration Bill Walks Fine Line
  
  Los Angeles Times | Jun 4, 07 12:30 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The "grand bargain"—the compromise on which the proposed immigration bill turns—is the product of a process that saw senators from every point on the political compass unite around a common goal. With the senate scheduled to take up the legislation this week, the LA Times goes behind the scenes to look at the forging of an unusual consensus. More »
May 2007
- Immigration Fees Skyrocket
  
  Los Angeles Times | May 30, 07 11:16 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The price of citizenship is going up. With applications on the rise, the federal agency for citizenship and immigration is raising charges for almost all benefits, reports the Los Angeles Times . The cost of a green card will go from $325 to $930, while citizenship applications will rise from $330 to $675. More »
- Immigration Debate Splits GOP
  
  Los Angeles Times | May 28, 07 1:13 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Deep divisions within the GOP over immigration reform have become increasingly bitter in recent weeks, the LA Times reports, with senior figures on both sides engaging in a rare public spat. On one side are those who fear alienating the mostly white conservative base; on the other those who want the party to woo the fast-growing Latino community. More »
- Problems Plague Immigration Agency
  
  Washington Post | May 28, 07 7:46 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The agency that will have to deal with the avalanche of paperwork generated by immigration reform can't handle it, the Washington Post reports today. With over a million citizenship applications already stalled in the pipeline, Citizenship and Immigration (the former INS) faces the possibility that its workload will nearly triple, and critics are calling on Congress to step in. More »
- Americans Walk Soft Line on Immigration
  
  New York Times | May 25, 07 12:52 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Lou Dobbs, take note: A majority of Americans back key immigration reform proposals making their way through Congress, a new CBS News/ New York Times poll finds. Americans across the political spectrum say they support a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, and two-thirds back a guest-worker program. More »
- Senate Brokers Immigration Bill
  
  Los Angeles Times | May 17, 07 5:30 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Illegal immigrants are offered a path to citizenship for the first time under a new Senate immigration reform package unveiled today. A precarious compromise hammered out by Bush administration officials and top senators, the bill trades hard-line border control measures for controversial provisions like a guest-worker program and a system for earning citizenship. More »
- Outsourcing Firms Grab Visas
  
  BusinessWeek | May 15, 07 11:51 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - H1B visas—intended to bring high-skilled foreign workers to the U.S.—may in fact helping foreign companies to train their workers, two senators argue. Data released by Republicans Dick Durbin and Chuck Grassley indicate that nine Indian outsourcing firms use up 30% of the H1B visas granted each year, more than experts had realized previously. More »
- Citizenship Push Aims to Create Latino Voters
  
  Wall Street Journal | May 10, 07 1:29 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The nation's largest Spanish-language broadcaster is preparing to launch an unprecedented citizenship drive that could sway the 2008 presidential election. Univison's "Ya Es Hora" ("It's About Time") campaign, already under way in Southern California, will encourage the country's eight million green card holders to apply for citizenship—and the voting rights that accompany it. More »
- Immigrants Allege Border Drugging
  
  Los Angeles Times | May 9, 07 12:57 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Two illegal immigrants say they were drugged against their will by U.S. officials trying to deport them, their ACLU lawyer said yesterday. The two men, one Indonesian and one Senegalese, claim to have been injected with pyschotropic drugs during deportation proceedings; neither had been diagnosed with a mental illness that would have required the medication. More »
- LAPD Chief Orders Elite Officers Retrained
  
  Los Angeles Times | May 7, 07 8:42 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Citing "things that shouldn't have been done," LAPD Chief William Bratton apologized yesterday for the actions of an elite platoon that broke up a pro-immigration May Day rally and said the officers involved are off the streets and will be retrained. The officers' prestigious assignment is in jeopardy after police batons and projectiles injured both protesters and journalists. More »
- U.S. May Reqire Visas From Brits
  
  New York Times | May 2, 07 12:43 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Immigration officials are considering making British citizens apply for visas to enter the U.S., the New York Times reports. The aim is to screen out potential terrorists among Brits of Pakistani descent who might slip through because of the longstanding waiver of visas between the two countries. An alternate proposal would require visas only for Britons of Pakistani origin. More »
- Fewer March for Immigration
  
  Los Angeles Times | May 1, 07 4:05 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Thousands turned out across the country today to rally in favor of a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. But with immigration reform off the table in Washington, their numbers marked a sharp decrease from the 650,000 who congregated last year in L.A. alone. More »
April 2007
- DNA Tests Surprise Immigrants
  
  New York Times | Apr 10, 07 8:55 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Thousands of new citizens asked to take DNA tests in order to verify the immigration status of relatives back home are discovering unwelcome surprises about their families, the New York Times reports. The State Department recommends the tests to confirm family ties in countries where record-keeping is poor. But an estimated 15 to 20% backfire, failing to produce matches. More »

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Background

naturalization
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

naturalization official act by which a person is made a national of a country other than his or her native one. In some countries naturalized persons do not necessarily become citizens but may merely acquire a new nationality . There is no such limitation in the United States; the Fourteenth ...

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Know-Nothing movement
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Know-Nothing movement in U.S. history. The increasing rate of immigration in the 1840s encouraged nativism. In Eastern cities where Roman Catholic immigrants especially had concentrated and were welcomed by the Democrats, local nativistic societies were formed to combat "foreign" influences ...

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Ellis Island
World Encyclopedia

Ellis Island Island in Upper New York Bay, near Manhattan, se New York, USA. It acted as the main US immigration centre (1892–1943); at the height of immigration it was handling one million ...

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White Australia policy
A Dictionary of World History

White Australia policy A restrictive immigration policy pursued in Australia. In the mid-19th century there was a shortage of labour and SQUATTERS brought in Chinese and KANAKAS (Pacific Islanders) as labour. By the 1880s developing trade unions were calling for a policy to protect the ...

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McCarran-Walter Act
A Dictionary of World History

McCarran-Walter Act (1952) A codification of US immigration laws. Passed over the President's veto, it maintained the quota system, whereby immigrant quotas were allocated by nationality, but it tightened up laws governing the admission and ...

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