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Owen Lubozynski, Cornell Law, Mar. 7, 2023 "Congress has been unable to enact comprehensive immigration reform for over thirty years. On February 24, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., a diverse group of policymakers, experts, advocates...

eCornell - IMMIGRATION REFORM: Might Past Be Prologue? Tuesday, December 06, 2022, 1pm EST It’s been over 30 years since Congress enacted the most recent set of comprehensive immigration reforms: the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986...

Andrew Kreighbaum, Bloomberg Law, Mar. 30, 2022 "To secure a bipartisan deal on immigration in Congress, a coalition of employers and faith groups is thinking small. The Alliance for a New Immigration Consensus is pressing lawmakers to pass legislation...

On March 15, 2022, Prof. Stephen H. Legomsky , The John S. Lehmann University Professor Emeritus, Washington University School of Law, testified before the United States Senate Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety, Committee on...

Doris Meissner, Ruth Ellen Wasem, MPI, Oct. 2021 "In response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Congress created the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from a patchwork of agencies charged to varying degrees with counterterrorism and broader responsibilities...

Haris Alic, Washington Times, Sept. 14, 2021 "Even if Democrats win [Senate Parliamentarian] Ms. MacDonough ‘s approval for the procedural questions, they’ll still have a hard time maintaining unity in their ranks over the policy, said...

Stuart Anderson, Forbes, Sept. 13, 2021 "A new House bill could provide green card relief for thousands of individuals and families waiting years in backlogs and grant legal status to millions of immigrants living in the United States without legal...

Cyrus D. Mehta and Kaitlyn Box, Sept. 11, 2021 "It is hard to believe that 20 years have gone by since planes hijacked by terrorists crashed into the Twin Towers in New York, the Pentagon in DC and into a field in Pennsylvania instead of Capitol...

Jorge Cancino, Univision, Sept. 10, 2021 "In 2001 President George Bush seemed ready to push for comprehensive immigration reform in Congress. The 9/11 terrorist attacks changed all that," says Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration...

With congressional efforts to repair a broken immigration system stalled by election-year politics, the Obama administration is deporting unauthorized immigrants at record rates and in the process putting pressure on the states. In five years in office...

Budget & Taxes US SENATE IMMIGRATION BILL COULD BE COSTLY FOR STATES: The immigration overhaul passed last month by the U.S. Senate doesn't do much to help states cover the costs they would incur in making the policy changes the bill mandates...

by Lou Cannon States and local governments with heavy concentrations of illegal immigrants have long clamored for comprehensive federal immigration reform. But with such reform on the doorstep, many of these states and localities are complaining...

By Lou Cannon \ States and local governments with heavy concentrations of illegal immigrants have long clamored for comprehensive federal immigration reform. But with such reform on the doorstep, many of these states and localities are complaining...

Napolitano Resigns as Secretary of Homeland Security On July 12, 2013, Janet Napolitano announced her resignation as Secretary of Homeland Security, a position she has held since the start of the Obama administration. Napolitano will remain in her...

By Lou Cannon | With immigration reform blocked by partisan gridlock and government shutdown in Washington, states led by California have stepped in to ease the plight of illegal immigrants. "While Washington waffles on immigration, California's...