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The "immigration bill", the "Gang of Eight Bill" Announced in: the 113th United States Congress: Sponsored by: Chuck Schumer (D-NY) Codification; Acts affected: Immigration and Nationality Act, Social Security Act, Internal Revenue Code of 1986, Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, Refugee Crisis in Iraq Act of ...
2013 — With President Barack Obama in the White House, a bipartisan group of senators, nicknamed the Gang of 8, negotiated an immigration reform bill that was approved in the Senate. The bill ...
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.
The most recent major immigration reform enacted in the United States, the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, made it illegal to hire or recruit illegal immigrants, while also legalizing some 2.7 million undocumented residents who entered the United States before 1982. The law did not provide a legal way for the great number of low ...
By JIM KUHNHENN WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama said Saturday that the surge of immigrant children entering the U.S. illegally changed the politics surrounding the issue of immigration ...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama says Republican opposition to his executive actions on immigration should not be a "deal breaker" on other issues. He also says that if Republicans ...
The Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013, passed by the United States Senate on June 27, 2013, would create a 13-year path to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants, a path that would require them to pass several security checks before they can get a green card. [4]
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Spurning furious Republicans, President Barack Obama unveiled expansive executive actions on immigration Thursday night to spare nearly 5 million people in the U.S. illegally ...