Immigration Backlash for Congress
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Lawmakers are bracing for political blowback from liberal and conservative critics of a broad immigration reform measure that's on hold as they head home for a weeklong break
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The House neared action Wednesday on requiring Americans to show proof of citizenship in order to vote, and the Senate moved to build a 700-mile fence along the Mexican border, sharpening attacks on illegal immigration before the midterm elections.
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In a defeat for President Bush, Republican congressional leaders said Tuesday that broad immigration legislation is all but doomed for the year, a victim of election-year concerns in the House and conservatives&#039; implacable opposition to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants.
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A conservative backlash to the massive street demonstrations over immigration is aggravating Republican leaders&#039; carefully orchestrated plans to renew the landmark Voting Rights Act before the fall elections.
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Latino elected officials from both parties are joining efforts to lobby Congress in support of immigration law reform.
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More than 100 people began a fast on  Wednesday to protest U.S. treatment of immigrants seeking  permanent residency or citizenship, which they say has worsened  since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
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Many illegal immigrants seeking lawful status in the United States would have to leave the country, at least briefly, under legislation being debated in the Senate.
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The news that Mexican trucks will be allowed to haul freight deeper into the United States drew an angry reaction Friday from labor leaders, safety advocates and members of Congress.
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The contentious SKIL bill â or Securing Knowledge, Innovation and Leadership Act of 2006 â is about to set off an old-fashioned donnybrook between immigration supporters and opponents before the lame-duck Congress fades into history.
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As President Bush pressed lawmakers Tuesday to get immigration reform back on track, immigrants across the country were marching, praying, writing lawmakers and hitting the road for Washington in a desperate push to revive the stalled measure.
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Some opponents of the Iraq war are taking their protests straight to Congress &#151; staging "occupations" in lawmakers' offices on Capitol Hill and in their home communities.
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Democratic lawmakers vow to come roaring out of the blocks when they assume control of the next Congress, passing several top-priority bills in the first 100 hours. Absent from that list, however, are the knottiest problems that bedeviled the outgoing Congress, including immigration, domestic surveillance and the war in Iraq....
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The US Congress Tuesday takes up a divisive bill balancing border security and the documentation of 12 million illegal aliens, in a make-or-break debate that could scuttle immigration reform until after the 2008 presidential election.
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Senators pushing a new immigration policy appealed Sunday to wavering supporters ahead of renewed debate on securing the borders and dealing with 12 million undocumented immigrants.
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Waves of immigrants, scorned by many people, are so valued by U.S. business that the competition for them threatens the fragile immigration compromise in Congress.
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Making it easier to deport immigrants seeking political asylum will get a vote in the House this week, a few days after a federal commission said that many of them already are being treated like criminals.
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Congress took up legislation to require voters to show proof of citizenship and to build a 700 mile fence along the Mexican border as Republicans sharpened their attacks on illegal immigration seven weeks before the midterm elections.