Second, the bracero program, a temporary annual guest worker permit for low skilled Mexican farm workers, was discontinued on the eve of the Immigration Act of 1965 due to labor union pressure.
He was a key member of a bipartisan Senate group that put together the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007, which would have beefed up border security and increased the number of Border Patrol agents, but also would have created a guest worker program.
The nation has changed dramatically since the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, and that legislation has not held up well.
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More than 1 million farmworkers applied for legalization under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.
President Reagan granted amnesty to illegal immigrants when he signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 that affected mostly Latino immigrants living in the United States since 1982.
Leaving aside the mistaken idea that immigration is purely an act of generosity (start with this excellent Economist article for example), is it actually true that we do better than anyone else?
Then she argued that little could be done until a review of the Immigration Act was completed.
In the U.K., it says, the overall impact of the 1999 Immigration and Asylum Act and the 1999 Immigration Bill "proved detrimental to refugees, " while, "cruel and dangerous methods of restraint, including the deliberate blocking of breathing passages, " were the subject of inquiries in Switzerland and Belgium following deaths by asphyxiation during forcible deportation.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wants more people to use section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
That has applied to the Defense of Marriage Act, immigration laws, and to the No Child Left Behind Act regarding education policy.
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President Obama has simply refused to uphold federal laws with which he disagrees, including the Defense of Marriage Act and immigration statutes.
Registrars are encouraged to report their suspicions of a suspect marriage or civil partnership under Section 24 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.
The Office of Special Counsel for Immigration Related Unfair Employment Practices (OSC) of the Civil Rights Division enforces the anti-discrimination provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act to ensure that individuals are not being discriminated against based on citizenship or immigration status and national origin with respect to hiring, firing, and recruitment or referral for a fee.
Instead, we should implement reforms like the Immigration Innovation Act, which would nearly double the number of H-1B visas for high-skilled foreign workers.
On a later trip, U.S. Border Patrol Agents caught and returned him to Mexico but he later succeeded in entering the United States and benefitted from the aftermath of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, signed by President Ronald Reagan, which gave legal status to many undocumented immigrants.
Four years later it passed the Senate as part of the far more expansive Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act, but died in conference.
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One example of such reform is the bipartisan Immigration Innovation Act introduced on January 29 by Senators Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Chris Coons (D-Del.).
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Canada should strip its dual citizens of their passports if they commit an act of terror abroad, the country's immigration minister has said.
John thinks renewal and competition in any party orthodoxy is healthy for America, but Dean is clearly rooting for DeMint's success, even if it means the end of the Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act.
This call sought to create the space for Congress to act in a bipartisan manner on the type of common sense immigration reform that is needed to fix the broken system.
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The American Civil Liberties Union said the bill includes "Patriot Act-like provisions" inserted at the request of House members after immigration provisions that contributed to the delay in the House were removed.
Illinois immigration attorney David Rubman, suspicious that the annual 65, 000 H-1B high-skilled visa quota was not being filled, filed a Freedom of Information Act request, which U.S. Customs and Immigration Services (USCIS) complied with last week.
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After decades of an open-door policy, the 1924 U.S. Immigration Act imposed quotas by nationality.
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Obama campaign hands in Chicago and Florida are confident that the GOP's tough talk on immigration policy -- Romney has embraced elements of Arizona's tough immigration law and said he would veto the DREAM Act, for instance -- will push Florida's various Hispanic communities into the Democratic fold in November.
The bipartisan "Gang of 8" senators introduced an act recently, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act, that takes a promising new approach.
Munley of the central Pennsylvania district has struck down a poorly conceived ordinance dubbed the Illegal Immigration Relief Act, which sought to punish landlords who rent to illegal immigrants and employers who hire them.
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Meanwhile tens of thousands of pro-immigration activists massed outside the Capitol and in cities around the country to push Congress to act.
We all understand the frustration of Arizona and border states at this problem, but believe that instead of a patchwork of 50 state laws, that Congress has in the past and should act now to enact comprehensive immigration reform.
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