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  • Debate Over ‘Amnesty’ Represents Immigration Fault Line

    A Senate plan to rewrite U.S. immigration law has stoked a years-old debate over allowing undocumented residents a chance to become citizens, a measure viewed by opponents as rewarding lawbreakers with “amnesty” and undercutting American workers.

  • Debate Over `Amnesty' Represents Immigration Fault Line

    A Senate plan to rewrite U.S. immigration law has stoked a years-old debate over allowing undocumented residents a chance to become citizens, a measure viewed by opponents as rewarding lawbreakers with “amnesty” and undercutting American workers.

  • Farmworker Elements of U.S. Immigration Deal Reached

    Senators working on a rewrite of U.S. immigration law have resolved some of their most contentious issues, putting them within reach of unveiling legislation as soon as next week.

  • Obama Proposes $3.8 Trillion Budget to Revive Debt Talks

    President Barack Obama sent a $3.8 trillion budget to Congress today calling for more tax revenue and slower growth for Social Security benefits in a political gamble intended to revive deficit-reduction talks.

  • Obama’s NLRB Nominees Include Critic of Boeing Case

    President Barack Obama picked a Democrat and two Republicans to the U.S. labor board, including a lawyer who in 2011 faulted the agency’s prosecution of Boeing Co. for opening an airplane factory in South Carolina.

  • Wage Rates for Laborers Complicating Immigration Rewrite

    The AFL-CIO is seeking to exempt industries with high unemployment rates such as construction from a new worker-visa program that is complicating bipartisan talks on a rewrite of the nation’s immigration laws.

  • Business-Labor Deal Marks Major Step To Immigration Bill

    A deal between business and labor leaders on allocating visas to low-skilled foreign workers improves the chances that the Senate will pass an immigration bill, said three members of the bipartisan group of senators who are negotiating an agreement.

  • Business-Labor Deal Marks Major Step To Immigration Bill

    Senators negotiating a bipartisan accord on U.S. immigration policy expressed optimism yesterday that a plan will be ready for Senate consideration soon, while differences remain with Republicans leading the House.

  • Senate Group Close on Immigration Rewrite, Schumer Says

    President Barack Obama said he is confident that an immigration bill will pass in the next several months, as key Senators charged with crafting the legislation indicated that their process is almost complete.

  • Schumer Says Business-Labor Immigration Agreement Close

    Business and labor leaders are close to resolving a dispute over visas for low-skilled foreign workers as lawmakers draft a broad revision of U.S. immigration laws, a Democratic senator involved in the discussions said.

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