Obama to hold meetings on immigration reform with business and unions
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19:52 05/02/2013
The White House has announced that President Obama will be holding a series of meetings on Tuesday 12th February 2013 in support of his campaign to reform the US's immigration system. The president...
Obama outlines framework for US immigration reform
10:03 31/01/2013
President Barack Obama gave a speech in Las Vegas on Tuesday, 29th January 2013, in which he told Americans that the time has come for the US to reform its immigration system. The President's speech...
Senators reach agreement on US immigration reform bill
15:08 30/01/2013
A bipartisan group of eight senior Senators has announced that they have drawn up a framework agreement for US immigration reform legislation. The Senators made their announcement on Monday 28th...
Poll shows majority in US back immigration reform
18:04 24/01/2013
A poll of US voters released on Monday 21st January 2013 shows that 53% of those responding would support a change to the law to allow the estimated 11m immigrants currently living in the US to...
Business group prepares to spend big money for US immigration reform
17:51 22/01/2013
A group of US business leaders has announced that it is to create a fund to finance a campaign in favour of immigration reform. Carlos Gutierrez, who was commerce secretary under George W Bush, and...
Microsoft presses US immigration for H-1B reform
9:18 21/01/2013
Last year, Microsoft reported that it was looking for qualified IT professionals. Last September, it announced that it had 6,000 vacancies that it could not fill, 3,400 of these were IT roles. It...
