Voices for Civil Dialogue

The Heritage Foundation, a Washington-based conservative think tank, released a report this month -- written by Jason Richwine and Robert Rector -- that projects a $6.3 trillion federal price tag for the comprehensive immigration reform plan Congress is considering.

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A bipartisan group of U.S. House members working on comprehensive immigration reform legislation has agreed on a 15-year path to citizenship for unauthorized immigrants, two years longer than the 13-year proposal in the Senate plan.

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The Gang of Eight's proposed comprehensive immigration reform bill has started its formal journey through Congress, and already there have been volleys of poison-pill amendments intended to derail the legislation as it goes through the Senate's committee mark-up process.

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Latinos by a 2-1 margin disapprove of how President Obama [...]

Latinos disapprove by a 2-to-1 ratio of how the Obama [...]

Mandeep Chahal is a young woman in limbo. An honors student [...]

Opponents of a new law that allows illegal immigrants to [...]

A GOP state assemblyman today launched an effort to ask [...]

The Senate Judiciary Committee continues to consider amendments to Title II of the “Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act’’ (S.744) today. For many, Title II is the bill’s core as it deals with...

Monday, the Senate Judiciary Committee began its fourth day—and likely last week—of the immigration reform bill’s mark-up. After spending most of the day finishing the Title 3 (interior enforcement) amendments, the senators began on the...

On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee began its mark-up of Title III of S.744, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act. When the mark-up continues on Monday, Senators are likely to vote on...

One of the explicit goals of the “Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act’’ (S.744) is to curtail future flows of unauthorized immigration by correcting some of the flaws of...

Under S. 744, “The Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act,” a merit-based point system is proposed as a tool to allocate a portion of new immigrant visas each year. After...

Our legal system rests upon the principle that everyone is entitled to due process of law and a meaningful opportunity to be heard.  But for far too long, immigration courts have failed...