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  2. Jessica Cisneros - Wikipedia

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    Cisneros was born and raised in Laredo, Texas. [4] [5] Before she was born, her parents emigrated from Mexico to seek medical care for her older sister.[4] [5] [1] Her parents became United States citizens under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.

  3. History of laws concerning immigration and naturalization in ...

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    The bill would provide legal residency and a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who graduate from U.S. high schools and attend college or join the military. Immigrant visa limits set by Congress remain at 700,000 for the combined categories of employment, family preference, and family immediate.

  4. Margaret W. Wong - Wikipedia

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    Having pledged $850,000 to her law school alma mater, in 2012, Wong increased her pledge to $1.5 million, half of which would fund scholarships, and the other half to endow a professorship in immigration law. $1 million would be paid over ten years, and the remaining half-million dollars was a pledged planned giving gift from her estate. [7] [25]

  5. Latino members of Congress seek changes in translations of ...

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    Latino members of Congress want U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to waive an internal policy requiring their congressional offices provide USCIS with certified translations of non-English ...

  6. Naturalization Act of 1790 - Wikipedia

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    The Naturalization Act of 1790 (1 Stat. 103, enacted March 26, 1790) was a law of the United States Congress that set the first uniform rules for the granting of United States citizenship by naturalization. The law limited naturalization to "free white person(s)... of good character". This eliminated ambiguity on how to treat newcomers, given ...

  7. What a Kamala Harris Win Would Mean for Immigration - AOL

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    Harris also supports adding 100 more immigration court judges and associated support staff to address the backlog in immigration cases that has extended the amount of time people are waiting in ...

  8. Women in the United States House of Representatives

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    [50] [52] In the early years of women in Congress, such a seat was usually held only until the next general election, and the women retired after that single Congress, thereby becoming a placeholders to finishing elected terms of their husbands. [52] As the years progressed, however, more and more of these widow successors sought reelection.

  9. Ilhan Omar - Wikipedia

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    In February 2019, Omar questioned whether Elliott Abrams, whom Trump appointed as Special Representative for Venezuela in January 2019, was the correct choice given his past support of right-wing authoritarian regimes in El Salvador and Guatemala, his initial doubts about the number of reported deaths in the El Mozote massacre in 1982, and his ...