Posts Tagged ‘reform’

Americans Split on Linking Border Security and Citizenship in Immigration Reform

Most Americans say illegal immigrants should be allowed to remain in the country, but the public divides evenly on whether citizenship should be linked to stiff progress in securing the border, as many Senate Republicans are demanding, the latest United Technologies/National Journal Congressional Connection Poll has found. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This [...]

Immigration reform cuts deficits—a lot

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Jeb Bush Adds ‘Immigrants Are More Fertile’ to Reform Debate

ABC News’ Michael Falcone reports: Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush told a gathering of Christian conservatives that morning that he was “sick to my stomach” about the slow pace of the U.S. economic recovery and outlined a four-point plan for speeding it up. Among the… Tweet This Post

Steve Case on immigration reform: The House will be ‘heavier lift’

AOL Inc. co-founder Steve Case—one of the tech world’s leading immigration reform cheerleaders—says liberals will have to compromise on the sweeping Senate bill if it has a shot of passing the Republican-led House. “We don’t want to win the battle in the Senate and then lose the war in the House,” Case told Yahoo News. [...]

Jeb Bush champions immigration reform, Canada at conservative conference

Jeb Bush, a former governor of Florida who is fluent in Spanish and married a woman born in Mexico, stood out Friday at the Faith and Freedom Coalition conference on the issue of immigration—for many reasons. Unlike the speaker who preceded him—tea party conservative Michele Bachmann—Bush offered full support for immigration reform to tepid and [...]