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The legislation would have made deep and broad changes to existing U.S. immigration law, affecting almost every U.S. government agency. Bill S.744 would have created a program to allow an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States gain legal status in conjunction with efforts to secure the border.
The Gang of Eight was a bipartisan group of eight United States Senators—four Democrats and four Republicans—who wrote the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013. [1] In June 2013, S.744 passed the Senate with a strong majority—68–32, with 14 Republicans joining all Democrats.
In June 2013, the Senate approved the most comprehensive immigration overhaul bill since 1986. Negotiated by a bipartisan group of eight senators, fourteen Republicans joined all Democrats in voting for the measure; President Obama promised to sign it. Most conservative Republicans opposed the bill and said it would be dead on arrival in the House.
Protestors supporting immigration reform are shown gathered inside the office of Sen. Mark Rubio, R-Fla., on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. Congress is pondering broad legislation to overhaul the ...
By a whopping 84-9 margin, the Republican-controlled Senate on Thursday voted to advance the Laken Riley Act, an immigration enforcement bill named after a college student killed last year by a ...
But in 2013, the Democratic-led Senate passed the comprehensive immigration bill with 68 votes – only to see it ignored by the GOP-led House. Now any Senate deal – being negotiated by ...
On April 17, 2013, the "Gang of Eight" in the United States Senate introduced S.744, the long-awaited Senate version of the immigration reform bill proposed in Congress. [40] Text of the proposed legislation Archived 2013-04-18 at the Wayback Machine was promptly released on the website of Senator Charles Schumer. On June 27, 2013, the Senate ...
The House voted on Tuesday to pass a GOP-led bill to require detention of undocumented migrants charged with certain crimes, but the measure faces an uncertain future in the Senate in a sign of ...