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May 08, 2013 Associated Press A landmark immigration bill in the Senate is facing a critical trial — whether it can survive hundreds of amendments from the left and right and still emerge relatively intact.  The test will begin Thursday before the... Read More

By Benjamin BellMay 5, 2013 Former South Carolina Republican senator and current Heritage Foundation president Jim DeMint argued that implementing immigration reform as proposed by the so-called “Gang of Eight” would “cost Americans trillions of dollars,” citing a soon-to-be released update to... Read More

In this April 30, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama answers questions during his new conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. The president aims to assure Latin America that the U.S. is serious about immigration... Read More

By JENNIFER STEINHAUER Published: May 1, 2013 WASHINGTON — As a gun safety bill dissolved on the Senate floor last month, a group of eight senators — some who had supported the failed measure — had already moved on to a policy... Read More

With the White House and Congress working on immigration reform, the Supreme Court rejected an appeal from Alabama and let stand a finding that the state’s statute was preempted by federal law. By Warren Richey, Staff writer / April 29, 2013 In this... Read More

By Roxana Tiron & Kathleen Hunter Apr 25, 2013 The Republican-led House plans to rewrite U.S. immigration law through a step-by-step process of individual bills, an approach that sponsors of a comprehensive Senate measure say won’t work. “This process can be long,”... Read More