Increased traffic during Victoria Day and Memorial Day weekends 05/09/2013 Port Huron, Mich. - U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at the Blue Water Bridge want to remind the traveling public to have proper travel documents, and plan for a possible increase in traffic over the Victor...
May 10, 2013The latest available data from the Justice Department show that during the first six months of FY 2013 the government reported 50,468 new immigration prosecutions. If this activity continues at the same pace, the annual total of prosecutions will be 100,936 for this fiscal year. According to the cas...
May 10, 2013A. Goal for Border Security We will establish the following goal for border security--to achieve and maintain effective control in high risk border sectors along the Southern border. This will be done in two ways: 1) Persistent surveillance in High Risk Sectors along the Southern Borde...
April 16, 2013By MANU RAJU | 4/11/13 8:53 PM EDT Marco Rubio is preparing to go all in to support sweeping immigration legislation, offering himself up as the public face of a bill that will split the Republican Party — but that his allies hope will propel him to the front of the GOP presidential sweepstakes. ...
April 12, 2013WASHINGTON — The sweeping immigration bill that a bipartisan group of senators is preparing will include a major new merit-based program for foreigners to become permanent legal residents based on their work skills, including both high-skilled and blue-collar workers, according to people familiar wi...
April 12, 2013By Associated Press, Published: April 10 | Updated: Thursday, April 11, 4:00 PM WASHINGTON — Democratic and Republican negotiators have reached agreement on all the major elements of sweeping legislation to remake the nation’s immigration laws and expect to unveil the bill next week, lawmakers sa...
April 12, 20134 hours ago • Associated Press A bipartisan immigration bill soon to be introduced in the Senate could exclude hundreds of thousands of immigrants here illegally from ever becoming U.S. citizens, according to a Senate aide with knowledge of the proposals. The bill would bar anyone who arrive...
April 12, 2013by Paul McDaniel U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on Friday, April 5, just five days after the H-1B high-skill “visa race” began, that they had received more applications than could be approved under the cap of 65,000 for fiscal year 2014. Additionally, USCIS st...
April 12, 2013by Guillermo Cantor As the 113th Congress engages in a historic debate on immigration reform, past attempts to overhaul immigration laws provide cautious reminders of the struggles and opportunities ahead in closing a deal on immigration policy. While the United States’ own history is critical fo...
April 12, 2013by Amanda Peterson Beadle The tens of thousands of people who gathered Wednesday in front of the Capitol to rally for comprehensive immigration reform had two clear messages for Congress: reform must include a direct path to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants currently living ...
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