Immigration News

June 30, 2006 The Senate has agreed on a plan to overcome a procedural obstacle that House Republicans had been using as a reason to not enter into a conference on their respective immigration bills.  The problem was based on a provision in the Senate bill that...

June 28, 2006 Incumbent Chris Cannon (R-UT) handily defeated Republican challenger John Jacob in Tuesday's primary election for Utah's 3rd District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.  The race was widely considered a bellwether on the immigration issue, as the...

June 28, 2006 The Los Angeles Times reports today that several Republican senators have indicated that they might accept delayed implementation of guestworker and legalization portions of an immigration reform bill in order to show that the Senate was serious about...

June 27, 2006 Jim Bryson, the leading Republican candidate in Tennessee's upcoming election for governor, has officially jumped on the "exploit immigration" bandwagon.  At a news conference yesterday Bryson was accompanied by a Tennessee woman whose parents were...

June 25, 2006 There are several regional immigration news stories of significance today: 1.  A Hispanic activist and community leader and his 18-year old son were murdered in Clarksville, Tennessee this past Friday.  The deaths have terrified the local Hispanic...

June 22, 2006 In response to House Republicans' plan to conduct hearings on the Senate's immigration bill this summer, Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) announced yesterday that his committee would conduct summer hearings of its own to defend the...