THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE STRENGTHENED S. 744 BY Making the path to citizenship more efficient and practical. By adopting Hirono 12, the SJC ensured that immigrants along the path to citizenship will be able to pay application fees on a more affordable installment plan, ensuring more low-income immigrants will be able to pay the $2000 required [...]

Amendments are divided into the following topics: Path to Citizenship Legal Immigration Border Enforcement Interior Enforcement and Due Process Employment and Labor Law Integration and Public Benefits Updated May 21, 2013 | Download PDF Path to Citizenship Good Blumenthal 1 (Title II): Allows young DREAMers who are still in grade school to get green cards [...]

May 7, 2013 | Download PDF here The Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013 (S. 744) is a bipartisan bill with many excellent provisions, and others of concern.  Following are highlights and “lowlights.”   Highlights Most undocumented immigrants in the country today can get on a road to citizenship, starting with [...]

 SEN. JEFF SESSIONS (R-AL) “All our staff has been working for days trying to decipher this gobbledygook. And I’m told that you read it two, three times, and you get a different insight each time you read it.” – Senator Sessions about Gang of 8 Immigration Bill, Senate Judiciary Committee meeting, April 26, 2013 Senator [...]

There’s the Senate “Gang of Hate“—and there’s their “brain trust” (or what we like to call their “drain trust”).  These are the guys that supply them with so many of their ideas about immigrants and the restrictionist fantasy knowns as “self-deportation.”  Meet some of the anti-immigrant nativists who are frequent collaborators with the Gang of [...]

Updated May 22, 2013 What you need to know for the Senate Gang of 8′s immigration reform bill: Amendments Posting of amendments (Judiciary Committee website) The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the Immigration Bill Amendments (America’s Voice) The 11 Most Heartless Republican Amendments to the Immigration Bill (Think Progress) Republicans Flood Immigration Bill With [...]

March 2013 | Download PDF here. A majority of Americans agree that Congress should pass an immigration law with a path to citizenship for immigrants here without papers.  For this proposal to succeed, it has to be as inclusive and accessible as possible.  Following are some of the key details that will determine how inclusive—and, [...]

May 17, 2013 Office Hours Week 12: House Group of 8 Announces Immigration Agreement Speakers: Patty Kupfer, America’s Voice Education Fund Cristina Jimenez, United We DREAM Angie Kelley, Center for American Progress Kica Matos, Center for Community Change Mee Moua, Asian American Justice Center Josh Stehlik, National Immigration Law Center Patrick Oakford, Center for American [...]