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		<title>Immigration Bill Heads to Full Senate</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 07:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / David Espo and Erica Werner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(WASHINGTON) — A far-reaching bill to remake the nation&#8217;s immigration system is headed to the full Senate, where tough battles are brewing on gay marriage, border security and other contentious issues, with the outcome impossible to predict. The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the measure 13-5 Tuesday night, setting up an epic showdown on the Senate floor after Congress&#8217; Memorial Day recess. The legislation is one of President Barack Obama&#8217;s top domestic priorities — yet it also gives the Republican Party a chance to recast itself as more appealing to minorities. Many involved still vividly recall the last time the Senate took up a major immigration bill, in 2007, beginning with high hopes only to see their efforts collapse on the Senate floor amid a public backlash and interest group defections. Some expressed optimism for a better outcome this time around as the Judiciary Committee gave its bipartisan approval. Three Republicans — Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Jeff Flake of Arizona, both authors of the bill, and Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah — joined the 10 committee Democrats in supporting the measure. &#8220;We&#8217;ve demonstrated to the United States Senate we can all work together, Republicans and Democrats,&#8221; said the panel&#8217;s chairman, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. &#8220;Now let&#8217;s go out of this room and work together with the other members of the Senate, and with the other body (the House), and more importantly work with all Americans, and all those who wish to be Americans.&#8221; (MORE: Senate Immigration Bill Clears Committee in Bipartisan Vote) In a statement, Obama applauded the committee&#8217;s action and said the bill was &#8220;largely consistent with the principles of common-sense reform I have proposed and meets the challenge of fixing our broken immigration system.&#8221; The legislation would create new routes for people to come legally to the U.S. to work at all skill levels, tighten border security and workplace enforcement, and offer a chance at citizenship to the 11 million people here illegally. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has said he would bring the legislation<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=96236&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Senate Immigration Bill Clears Committee in Bipartisan Vote</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/05/21/senate-immigration-bill-clears-committee-in-bipartisan-vote/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 00:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Altman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Senate committee debating a landmark immigration bill approved the bipartisan measure on Tuesday night, voting 13 to 5 to send the amended package to the floor. Ten Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee joined with three Republicans, including two of the four GOP authors of the bill, in support of a sweeping deal that would open a path to citizenship for some 11 million undocumented immigrants, beef up border security and refashion the clunky U.S. immigration system. The decision came after five long days of debate, during which the committee considered scores of amendments to a deal crafted last winter by eight Democrats and Republicans. The alliance proved enduring. Members on the committee kept the core of the bill intact by banding together to parry dozens of proposed changes that would have stripped key provisions such as a pathway to citizenship or introduced so-called &#8220;poison pills&#8221; that would have hampered its chances of winning approval on the Senate floor. The final day of the markup process was the most dramatic. Just after 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy &#8212; who presided over a transparent and equitable process as chairman of the committee &#8212; introduced an anxiously anticipated amendment that would have given gay Americans the right to sponsor their foreign-born partners for green cards, as heterosexuals are able to do. &#8220;I do not believe we should ask Americans to choose between the love of their life and love of their country,&#8221; Leahy said as he introduced the controversial proposal. Republican members of the Gang of Eight, who are risking the ire of their constituents by backing a sweeping immigration overhaul, warned that the amendment would unravel the whole deal.  Senator Lindsey Graham called it &#8220;a bridge too far.&#8221; To avoid jeopardizing the fate of the bill, several Democrats on the committee chose to sacrifice their beliefs to save it. In a decision that pitted ideology against their desire to finish the first major rewrite of U.S. immigration law in a generation, Democrats bowed, one by one, to the political reality<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=96211&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">From right: Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy confers with Senators Chuck Schumer and Chuck Grassley as the Senate Judiciary Committee assembles to work on a landmark immigration bill, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on May 20, 2013.</media:title>
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		<title>Senate Panel Approves Immigration Bill</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/05/21/senate-panel-approves-immigration-bill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 00:04:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / David Espo and Erica Werner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(WASHINGTON) — Far-reaching legislation to grant a chance at citizenship to millions of immigrants living illegally in the United States cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on a solid bipartisan vote Tuesday night after supporters somberly sidestepped a controversy over the rights of gay spouses. The 13-5 vote cleared the way for an epic showdown on the Senate floor on the measure, which is one of President Barack Obama&#8217;s top domestic priorities yet also gives the Republican Party a chance to recast itself as more appealing to minorities. The committee&#8217;s action sparked rejoicing from immigration activists who crowded into a Senate committee room to witness the proceedings. &#8220;Yes, we can!&#8221; they shouted as they clapped rhythmically to show their pleasure. In addition to creating a pathway to citizenship for 11.5 million immigrants, the legislation creates a new program for low-skilled foreign labor and would permit highly skilled workers into the country at far higher levels than is currently the case. (MORE: On Immigration, a Hawkeye in No Hurry) At the same time, it requires the government to take costly new steps to guard against future illegal immigration. There was suspense to the end of the committee&#8217;s deliberations, when Sen. Patrick Leahy, the Vermont Democrat who serves as chairman, sparked a debate over his proposal to give same-sex and heterosexual spouses equal rights under immigration law. &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to be the senator who asks people to choose between the love of their life and the love of their country,&#8221; he said, adding he wanted to hear from others on the committee. In response, he heard a chorus of pleas from the bill&#8217;s supporters, seconding private appeals from the White House, not to force a vote that they warned would lead to the bill&#8217;s demise. &#8220;I believe in my heart of hearts that what you&#8217;re doing is the right and just thing,&#8221; said one of them, Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill. &#8220;But I believe this is the wrong moment, that this is the wrong bill.&#8221; In the hours leading to a final vote, the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=96212&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Gang Reaches Across the Aisle as Senate Immigration Debate Kicks Off</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/05/10/the-gang-starts-strong-as-senate-immigration-debate-kicks-off/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 09:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Altman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Near the end of the first day of Senate debate on a sweeping bill to overhaul U.S. immigration laws, one of the measure&#8217;s top immigration supporters hugged one of its most vocal foes. Patrick Leahy, the chairman of the committee charged with debating and amending the bill, had been sparring for much of the day with Jeff Sessions, a Republican who opposes comprehensive reform. Sessions had been deriding the bill as profligate and porous, slamming it as &#8220;immediate amnesty&#8221; that would unseat American workers. But during a break in the slugfest, Leahy collared his conservative colleague and the two shared a private laugh. The moment showcased a strategy. As they try to sell the bill to skeptics, immigration supporters are pitching the bill as a return to bipartisanship and regular order. In an attempt to parry criticism that immigration might be jammed through the Judiciary Committee in a hasty or partisan fashion, Democrats repeatedly reached across the aisle on the first of many long days that will be devoted this month to amending the 867-page bill. (MORE: Immigration Bill Faces First Major Test) The committee is composed of 10 Democrats and eight Republicans, including two GOP members of the so-called Gang of Eight that crafted the package. With a clear majority, they could have mowed down each of the nearly 200 amendments Republicans offered, many of which would strike at the heart of the bill. Instead they adopted eight Republican amendments, mostly to stiffen border security. Six of those were offered by ostensible opponents of the bill, including one amendment by ranking member Charles Grassley of Iowa that would expand security across the entire southern border. Another Grassley amendment accepted by Democrats would require annual audits of the pool of money used to implement the law. The majority of the markup was, as Leahy had promised, &#8220;productive and transparent.&#8221; The text of the legislation was posted online two weeks ago. Amendments have been available since the filing deadline Tuesday, and as the bill changed shape the results were updated on the committee&#8217;s website.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=95277&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Committee Chairman Senator Patrick Leahy listens as Senator Chuck Grassley speaks during the Senate Judiciary Committee&#039;s markup for the immigration reform bill on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., on May 9, 2013.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Alex Altman</media:title>
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		<title>Immigration Bill Faces First Major Test</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/05/09/immigration-bill-faces-first-major-test/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 09:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Altman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Senate&#8217;s landmark effort to overhaul U.S. immigration laws faces its first pivotal challenge beginning Thursday, when it begins to consider a raft of amendments that could threaten the fragile compromise struck by a bipartisan group of negotiators. When the Senate Judiciary Committee kicks off what is expected to be a lengthy process of debating and amending the legislation, its members will bring competing goals to the tussle. The architects of the bill, four of whom sit on the committee, will try to shepherd the bill to the floor with its core intact, while still giving colleagues a fair shot at improving the product. In contrast, opponents of immigration reform aim to sap its momentum by slowing the process and buying time for a backlash to build. Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona, a member of the eight-member bipartisan group which crafted the bill, said he was &#8220;guardedly optimistic&#8221; about its prospects, but warned that substantial changes could torpedo its chances. &#8220;If there are efforts made to destroy that delicate compromise,&#8221; McCain said, &#8220;then it could fall apart.&#8221; (MORE: Four Additional Hurdles for Immigration Reform) In their bid to sink the bill, detractors will try to drown it under a deluge of amendments. By the 5 p.m. deadline on Tuesday, the 18 members of the Judiciary Committee &#8212; 10 Democrats, 8 Republicans &#8212; had filed some 300 amendments. Some are modest tweaks designed to patch holes or tinker around the edges. Many others are less helpful. Nearly two-thirds of the amendments were filed by Republicans. A majority of those were authored by two vocal critics: ranking member Charles Grassley of Iowa, who submitted 77 amendments, and Alabama&#8217;s Jeff Sessions, who tacked on 49. Ted Cruz of Texas proposed blocking a path to citizenship for anyone who has ever been willfully in the U.S. without legal status &#8212; an amendment that would strip out the heart of the bill. Sessions wants to limit the total number of worker visas. Orrin Hatch would require immigrants to submit DNA samples to authorities. His Utah colleague Mike<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=95164&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Immigrants stand for the invocation during a naturalization ceremony to become new U.S. citizens at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Mass., on March 21, 2013.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Alex Altman</media:title>
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		<title>Four Additional Hurdles for Immigration Reform</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/05/06/four-more-hurdles-on-immigration-reform/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 09:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Altman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back when the Senate&#8217;s Gang of Eight was haggling over the details of its immigration-reform bill, TIME dug into four major hurdles the bill would have to clear. But now the dynamics have changed. The gang has published its proposal, and the details are now being debated in public. With the legislation now headed for mark up in the Judiciary Committee on May 9, here are four new obstacles around which supporters will have to navigate: Problem #1: Stalling tactics from the right In the Senate, conservatives opposed to the Gang of Eight&#8217;s bill have settled on a simple strategy: stall. The bill, detractors complain, is too big and too important to be crafted by an eight-man panel. A passel of conservatives have called for more hearings, more transparency, more opportunities to tweak the legislation to their liking. Even Rand Paul, who embraced immigration reform just a month ago, pulled a quick U-turn in the aftermath of the Boston bombing, urging the Senate to delay the bill while the investigation into the marathon plot plays out. Conservatives in the House—where a separate bipartisan gang of negotiators still plans to drop its own template—have taken a different tack, insisting that the legislation be considered in smaller pieces rather than one massive (844-page) bill. That&#8217;s a nonstarter for the bill&#8217;s advocates. While John McCain and Chuck Schumer say they hope to garner support from a majority of both parties in the Senate, even members of the Gang concede that threading the legislation through the Republican-controlled House is going to be tricky. “The bill that’s in place right now probably can’t pass the House. It will have to be adjusted,&#8221; Senator Marco Rubio said this week. Problem #2: Pushback from the left The majority of Democrats have found plenty to like in the bill. But there&#8217;s still a chance that the political left could derail its passage. Immigrants&#8217; rights groups held a conference call this week to vent concerns about the bill. Among their gripes: the 13-year path to citizenship is too long, its<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=94733&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Alex Altman</media:title>
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		<title>Obama to Pitch Immigration Overhaul in Mexico</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/05/02/obama-to-pitch-immigration-overhaul-in-mexico/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 07:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Jim Kuhnhenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(WASHINGTON) — President Barack Obama is headed to Mexico with a domestic ambition at the top of his travel agenda. To sell his immigration overhaul back home, he needs a growing economy in Mexico and a Mexican president willing to help him secure the border. Obama was to fly to Mexico City on Thursday to meet with President Enrique Pena Nieto, eager to promote Mexico&#8217;s economic success and the neighboring country&#8217;s place as the second largest export market for U.S. goods and services. Mexicans will be hanging on the president&#8217;s words, but Obama also has in mind an important audience back in the United States. Though the role played by Latino voters in last year&#8217;s U.S. presidential election gets much credit for the current momentum for changing immigration laws and providing a path to citizenship for 11 million immigrants in the U.S. illegally, another reason for the change in attitudes is that stronger border protections and the recession have been disincentives to cross into the U.S. As a result, illegal immigration has declined. &#8220;With Mexico, first and foremost, they are critical to our ability to secure the border,&#8221; said Ben Rhodes, an Obama deputy national security adviser. &#8220;All the immigration plans that have been contemplated put a focus on securing the border as an essential priority and starting point for immigration reform.&#8221; Even better than a strong border is an economy that keeps people from fleeing. &#8220;If the Mexican economy is growing, it forestalls the need for people to migrate to the United States to find work,&#8221; Rhodes added. Eager to focus on the economy and immigration, the administration is downplaying Pena Nieto&#8217;s recent steps to end the broad access Mexico gave U.S. security agencies to help fight drug trafficking and organized crime under his predecessor, Felipe Calderon. Still, the changes are likely to be a subject during the two leaders&#8217; private talks. Obama said this week he wouldn&#8217;t judge the new moves until he heard directly from Mexican officials. (MORE: Immigration Debate Gives Life to Annual Rallies) Pena Nieto<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=94666&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Marco Rubio Says His Immigration Bill Can&#8217;t Pass the House</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/05/01/marco-rubio-says-his-immigration-bill-cant-pass-the-house/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 15:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica Werner/ Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) — A sweeping immigration bill in the Senate ran into criticism Tuesday from advocates who complained it puts up undue barriers to citizenship for millions here illegally. Officials from several immigrant rights&#8217; groups and the Catholic church held a conference call to highlight their concerns about the bill, including a cutoff date that excludes people who arrived here after 2011, and provisions disqualifying anyone with a felony conviction or more than two misdemeanors. President Barack Obama praised the Senate bill generally, though he said he would prefer to see some changes. Immigrants would also have to pay $2,000 in fines and hundreds more in fees along the bill&#8217;s 13-year path to citizenship, and meet income and employment requirements designed to ensure they have resources above 125 percent of the federal poverty line and won&#8217;t need to draw on public welfare programs. Advocates said the policies taken together could exclude hundreds of thousands or even a million or more of the 11 million immigrants here illegally. The Senate Judiciary Committee is to begin voting on the legislation next week. &#8220;If you&#8217;re going to leave several hundred thousand behind and leave them in the shadows you&#8217;re not solving the problem,&#8221; said Kevin Appleby, director of migration and refugee policy for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. &#8220;We&#8217;re very concerned that what the bill does is it punishes people for being poor,&#8221; Appleby said. Marielena Hincapie, executive director of the National Immigration Law Center, said that after reading the 844-page bill, advocates have concluded it needs &#8220;major improvements.&#8221; Advocates are also concerned that the bill requires certain goals on border security to be met before anyone can get a green card qualifying them for legal permanent residence and ultimately citizenship, and some say that the path to citizenship takes too long. Despite their concerns, advocates said they continued to support the overall goals of the bill and promised to fight for its passage even as they try to make it better. And it&#8217;s not clear that they have much hope of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=94568&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Court Rejects Alabama Appeal over Immigration Law</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/04/29/court-rejects-alabama-appeal-over-immigration-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(MONTGOMERY, Ala.) — An attorney for the Montgomery-based Southern Poverty Law Center says he&#8217;s not surprised the U.S. Supreme Court has turned down a request to revive portions of Alabama&#8217;s immigration law. Supreme Court justices on Monday upheld a federal appeals court ruling that blocked parts of the law. SPLC attorney Sam Brooke says lower courts have already said immigration reform is a function of the federal government, not the states. Brooke says he hopes the ruling will motivate Congress to seek meaningful reform. Justice Antonin Scalia voted to hear the appeal. A spokeswoman for Attorney General Luther Strange, Joy Patterson, says Scalia&#8217;s vote is a sign that once additional courts have considered the issue, the Supreme Court will grant review. &#8220;We are disappointed that the Court decided not to consider this case, over Justice Scalia&#8217;s dissent,&#8221; Patterson said. &#8220;Many other states are facing similar litigation, and the lower court in our case was the first federal court of appeals to consider this particular issue. Other cases raising the issue from other states are likely to appear at the Supreme Court in the future. Hopefully Justice Scalia&#8217;s vote indicates that once those additional courts have weighed in, the Supreme Court will be willing to grant review.&#8221; The case will now go back to the trial court. The parties and the court will have to sort through which issues have now been resolved by the Supreme Court in Arizona and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. Some issues will require further litigation, while other issues will not. &#8220;The Supreme Court has rightly struck another nail in the coffin of laws that attempt to sanction racial profiling,&#8221; said Karen Tumlin, managing attorney for the National Immigration Law Center. &#8220;Alabama&#8217;s legislators, both at the state and at the federal level should take note: they, like the rest of the country, should move forward, not backward, to bring our immigration laws in line with our societal and economic needs.&#8221; Cecilia Wang, director of the American Civil Liberty Union&#8217;s Immigrants&#8217; Rights Project,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=94408&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rand Paul Calls for Immigration Bill to be Slowed After Boston</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/04/22/rand-paul-calls-for-immigration-bill-to-be-slowed-after-boston/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:18:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Altman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was clear from the start that the Boston marathon bombing would pose the first major test of the Senate&#8217;s will to overhaul U.S. immigration laws. Almost immediately, conservative senators like Chuck Grassley and Dan Coats suggested the bill should be slowed. This was not a surprise. Many advocates believe they have a narrow window — roughly until the end of July — to shepherd the bill through the Senate. That gives opponents an incentive to dither. This being Congress, they&#8217;re quite good at finding reasons to slow down. But if such tactics are expected from the bill&#8217;s critics, they are far more damaging when they come from ostensible supporters. On Monday Republican Senator Rand Paul called for the bill to be delayed until the failures that allowed a pair of immigrants to allegedly detonate two pressure-cooker bombs in downtown Boston have been studied, and the solutions incorporated into the legislation. &#8220;We should not proceed until we understand the specific failures of our immigration system,&#8221; Paul wrote in a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. The Kentucky Republican called for hearings on homeland security and intelligence-gathering failures. Paul also urged the Senate to examine the flaws in the visa and refugee programs, and raised the possibility of suspending student visas from &#8220;high-risk&#8221; areas. &#8220;I respectfully request that the Senate consider the following two conditions as part of the comprehensive immigration reform debate,&#8221; Paul writes. &#8220;One, the Senate needs a thorough examination of the facts in Massachusetts to see if legislation is necessary to prevent a similar situation in the future. Two, national security protections must be rolled into comprehensive immigration reform to make sure the federal government does everything it can to prevent immigrants with malicious intent from using our immigration system to gain entry into the United States in order to commit future acts of terror.&#8221; Paul is not a member of the Senate&#8217;s so-called Gang of Eight, a group of four Republicans and four Democrats who last week filed an immigration bill intended to tighten border security, provide a pathway<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=93664&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Mark Zuckerberg Is Pushing For Immigration Reform</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2013/04/12/why-mark-zuckerberg-is-pushing-in-immigration-reform/?iid=biz-main-lead</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 14:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Gustin</dc:creator>
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		<title>Rubio and Immigration Reform: Will He Stick or Scoot?</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/04/09/rubio-and-immigration-reform-will-he-stick-or-scoot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Grunwald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Senate’s bipartisan Gang of Eight may release an immigration reform bill this week, but the question on many Washington minds is whether Marco Rubio, the most conservative member of the gang, really wants the legislation to pass. He has defied his Tea Party base by backing reform, including a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, but he has also demanded hearings, “triggers,” and a slew of other conditions he insists must be met for him to support the final bill. He’s still on the reform bus, but he’s left himself a Florida Turnpike worth of exit ramps. My cover story about Rubio’s personal and political journey on immigration issues anticipated this drama over the senator’s “impeccably nuanced positions.” He is a child of Cuban immigrants—his grandfather was undocumented for awhile, and I quoted his mother begging him not to harm the undocumented of today—but he is also a child of the conservative movement that sunk immigration reform in 2007. He’s clearly thinking about the White House in 2016, and it’s not yet clear whether helping to broker a bipartisan immigration deal will help his candidacy in a party that hates President Obama but needs Hispanics. As I wrote two months ago: “This shrewd political operator will have to decide how far he’s willing to bend to get a deal done with Obama, or whether he’s content just to get credit for trying.” (PHOTOS: Marco Rubio, Republican Savior) The bill’s opponents seem convinced that Rubio’s tough-talk demands—tight border security and an employment verification system first, an arduous path to citizenship later, and no law without a thorough and deliberate process—are just bones he’s throwing to his supporters on the right before his inevitable support for amnesty. By contrast, immigration advocates are clearly afraid that he intends to scuttle reform and then blame Obama and Big Labor for moving the bill too far to the left. I think he’s keeping his options open. He’s a political animal. He’d like to support a bill, but it will depend what the bill looks<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=92365&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Immigration Reform: The Coming Fight Over The Low-Skilled Worker Visa</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/04/08/immigration-reform-the-coming-fight-over-the-low-skilled-worker-visa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 09:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo Calabresi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the heart of a soon-to-be-released bipartisan compromise on immigration reform is a controversial proposal that would create several new government bureaus and offices to oversee a new generation of legal, low-skilled immigrants—as many as 200,000 a year when the program gets up and running. The proposal tries to address the ultimate cause of illegal immigration: not merely porous borders or unscrupulous employers, but the immutable fact that jobs here pay better here than ones back there. When Washington has tried to end illegal immigration in the past, Congress has ignored that simple labor market reality. This time, surprisingly, instead of trying to stop the illegal flow of low-skilled foreign workers to unfilled American jobs by increasing penalties and enforcement, the bipartisan bloc of Senators proposes to legalize it, in part. Under the terms of a deal struck between the AFL-CIO and the Chamber of Commerce on behalf of the Gang of Eight over Easter weekend, the bill would create a new, low-skilled worker visa: the &#8220;W-visa&#8221;. After listing a low-skilled job and receiving no acceptable American applicants, an employer could register to recruit a foreign worker. Entering the country for one job, a W-visa holder could legally change jobs immediately. Their initial employer could turn around and hire another W-visa holder the next day. What if a low-skilled worker decides he or she wants to stay? Holders of the W-visa could get on a path for citizenship after one year. Some immigration experts and economists view the bill as a historic breakthrough. “It’s thoughtful and innovative,” says Tamar Jacoby of ImmigrationWorks USA., a pro-business immigration group. “Supply and demand is going to generate a flow of [foreign low-skilled] workers,” says Jacoby, &#8220;It’s our choice whether we want them to come here legally or illegally.” But even if the policy is right that doesn&#8217;t mean the politics are, and the W-visa already seems to have as many enemies as friends, even among the groups that negotiated it. On the left, some unions are unhappy with the proposal because unemployment is<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=92267&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AP Bans ‘Illegal Immigrant’: The Tricky Language of Immigration Reform</title>
		<link>http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/04/03/ap-bans-illegal-immigrant-the-tricky-language-of-immigration-reform/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 21:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<title>Four Hurdles That Could Block Immigration Reform</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/03/20/four-hurdles-that-could-block-immigration-reform/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Altman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The next few months offer the best chance in a generation for the two parties to solve a problem that has bedeviled Congress like few others. Both sides agree the U.S. immigration system is broken. Both would seem to gain from a deal that clears a pathway out of legal oblivion for the nation’s 11 million illegal immigrants. Support is building for a landmark pact. But while negotiations are progressing in both the House and Senate, an agreement is a long way off. As the talks grow more detailed, obstacles to a deal may begin to emerge: Problem #1: The Gang of Eight The first snag lurks in the Senate, where the so-called Gang of Eight has huddled privately since the election in hopes of hammering out a bill. Members have crafted a set of measures that would create a pathway to citizenship for the nation’s estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants within about 13 years while requiring them to register with federal authorities, pay back taxes and fines, learn English and undergo background checks. The deal, both sides agree, would also beef up border security and determine how the future flow of immigrants will be regulated to match the needs of the economy. (MORE: Rand Paul Embraces Immigration Reform) The Gang’s closed conclaves have been marked by Vatican-style secrecy, often a sign of progress in a town where silence is rare. The Gang’s members – Republicans Marco Rubio, Lindsey Graham, John McCain and Jeff Flake, and Democrats Chuck Schumer, Dick Durbin, Bob Menendez and Michael Bennet – have, by all accounts, developed a rapport. “You can tell by the tone of their voices,” says an elected Democrat briefed on the progress of the private talks. But the broad themes are the easy part. The full bill will stretch to hundreds of pages, each peppered with detailed provisions that could spike it. Members bring clashing political imperatives and ideologies to the talks. Rubio, for example, is trying to repair the GOP’s tattered image with Hispanic voters without sparking a backlash among the movement<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=90830&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rand Paul Embraces Immigration Reform</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/03/19/rand-paul-embraces-immigration-reform/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Altman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kentucky Senator Rand Paul&#8217;s decision to back a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants is a new and important milepost on the long road to a comprehensive immigration bill. In a speech Tuesday morning to the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, the Tea Party favorite urged conservatives to embrace immigration reform, arguing that the status quo is untenable and the Republican Party should help shape legislation to overhaul a balky immigration system. &#8220;Immigration reform will not occur until conservative Republicans, like myself, become part of the solution. I am here today to begin that conversation,&#8221; Paul said. &#8220;Let’s start that conversation by acknowledging we aren’t going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants. If you wish to work, if you wish to live and work in America, then we will find a place for you.&#8221; The path to citizenship favored by Paul differs in important ways from the framework that a bipartisan group of his Senate colleagues are currently hashing out. The Kentuckian&#8217;s vision is predicated on a secure border, which would have to be certified by border patrol forces and upheld by Congress. It calls for a bipartisan Congressional panel to determine how many work visas to hand out, an issue that Senate negotiators have partially delegated to powerful labor unions and business groups. It would not include a national ID card or a mandatory E-Verify program, which many conservatives favor. But Paul&#8217;s speech was the latest sign that conservatives are ready to jettison their staunch opposition to granting illegal immigrants the privilege of citizenship.&#8221;The solution doesn’t have to be amnesty or deportation. A middle ground might be called probation, where those who came illegally become legal through a probationary period,&#8221; said Paul, who offered scant details about how the transition would work. Instead, Paul&#8217;s speech was peppered with references to his upbringing alongside Latinos in Texas and his love of Latin culture. This focus, on the human side of a thorny policy issue, underscores the belief within the GOP that its toxic rhetoric on immigration has come to jeopardize<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=90789&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Parsing Jeb II</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/03/05/parsing-jeb-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 17:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you’d asked anyone in Washington last week which Florida Republican was a frontrunner for the 2016 presidential nomination, the answer would be obvious: Marco Rubio. Just three weeks ago this magazine, perhaps with just a bit of its tongue in its cheek, named Rubio &#8220;The Republican Savior.&#8221; This week, Rubio seems to have picked up some competition from someone nearly everyone thought was an ally. Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, who helped Rubio get elected to the Senate in 2010, this week came out with a book on immigration, entitled Immigration Wars: Forging an American Solution. In it, Bush (along with Clint Bolick, his co-author) seems to take out a position on immigration to Rubio’s right, opposing a path to citizenship for adult illegal immigrants in the United States. Rubio, a Cuban American whose signature issue has been immigration reform, last month came out in support of a path to citizenship. Bush seemed unbothered by this dividing line while promoting the book on television on Tuesday, saying his plan was just a first offer and that if congressional negotiators come up with a proposal that includes amnesty he would support it as long as the penalties for those who acted illegally were stiff enough. “If you can craft that in law, where you can have a path to citizenship where there isn’t an incentive for people to come illegally, I’m for it,&#8221; he said on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. &#8220;I don’t have a problem with it. I don’t see you how you do it, but I’m not smart enough to figure out every aspect of a really complex law.” Bush also said the book was written with Bolick last year at a time when most of the Republican Party was dead set against allowing any illegal immigrants to stay in the U.S. His plan not only allows children who entered the country illegally a path to citizenship, it gives permanent residency – though not citizenship &#8212; to their parents and other undocumented adults. His thinking, he said, was to soften<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=89681&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Parsing Jeb</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/03/05/parsing-jeb/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Florida Governor Jeb Bush seems to be working through his position on amnesty and immigration: on NBC&#8217;s Today Show, Bush shut the door on a path to citizenship for illegal workers, on NBC&#8217;s Nightly News, he cracked the door back open. On the Today Show, Bush said that his proposal, which is laid out in his new book Immigration Wars: Forging an American Solution, &#8220;Looks forward&#8230;we can&#8217;t continue to make illegal immigration an easier path than legal immigration. There&#8217;s a natural friction between our immigrant heritage and the rule of law. This is the right place to be in that sense.&#8221;  Later in the day Bush seemed to recalibrate a bit, telling NBC&#8217;s Chuck Todd on Nightly News, &#8220;If there is a path to citizenship that has enough of a realization that we have to respect the rule of law, so be it.&#8221; NBC&#8217;s First Thoughts urged readers not to make &#8220;too much&#8221; out of Bush&#8217;s opposition to citizenship, for the following reason: As Bush points out, he was working on this book well before that bipartisan group produced its immigration framework containing a path to citizenship. “Remember this is a proposal that we attempted to put out prior to the election, to create a consensus for conservatives to actually get in the game,” Bush said in his interview with NBC News. Immigration Wars, debuting today, was heavily anticipated by a Wall Street Journal op-ed Jeb Bush and his co-author, Clint Bolick, wrote in January.  In it Bush and Bolick said that a path to citizenship will &#8220;will help us meet workforce needs, prevent exportation of jobs to foreign countries and protect against the exploitation of workers.&#8221; Update. Jeb Bush today on Morning Joe: Transcript: The principle underlying what we&#8217;ve proposed is that if you don&#8217;t have a difference between a path to citizenship or a path to legalization, you&#8217;re going to create a magnet going forward for more illegal immigrants&#8230; So going forward, we broke this last year &#8212; going forward, if there is a difference, if you can craft<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=89662&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yes, Rubio and Obama Mostly Agree on Immigration. No, That Doesn&#8217;t Mean Reform Is Inevitable.</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/02/20/yes-rubio-and-obama-mostly-agree-on-immigration-no-that-doesnt-mean-reform-is-inevitable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 10:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Grunwald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s true that Senator Marco Rubio’s stated principles for comprehensive immigration reform are quite similar to President Obama’s. It’s also true that when Rubio attacks the president over reform, as he did after a White House legislative draft leaked last weekend, he’s signaling to his fervently anti-Obama base that he’s still a solid Tea Party Republican. As I wrote in my Rubio profile, “some of this is Beltway theater; reform could become toxic to Republicans if it’s perceived as Obama-friendly.” This is why smart restrictionists like Mark Krikorian of the National Review as well as smart reformers like Benjy Sarlin of Talking Points Memo seem to agree that Rubio is just posturing, that what really matters are the similarities between his principles and the president’s, that the partisan theater is designed to reduce Republican resistance to bipartisan reform. Well, maybe. Obama did call Rubio in Jerusalem Tuesday night, and both sides expressed ritual optimism. But there are some real differences between Rubio and Obama on immigration. Sure, Rubio’s rhetoric could help make reform politically palatable to Republicans, and even help move reform substantively to the right. But it could also help lay the groundwork for Rubio to scuttle reform, accuse Obama of overreaching, and claim credit for trying to forge a bipartisan solution. Beltway theater can have real consequences, and the more Rubio threatens to walk away from any deal that doesn’t include everything he wants, the more pressure he will face to walk away when the deal, inevitably, doesn’t include everything he wants. Nobody but Rubio knows how far he is willing to bend to cut a deal few of his supporters want with a president most of his supporters despise. (MORE: If Immigration Reform Stalls, Federal Courts Could Have A Say) Remember, in interviews with right-wing talkers like Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin and Sean Hannity, Rubio has drawn a series of lines in the sand, pledging to oppose any immigration bill that doesn’t reflect conservative principles. He said he wouldn’t support any legislation that doesn’t secure the border (whatever that<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=88531&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If Immigration Reform Stalls, Federal Courts Could Have a Say</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/02/19/if-immigration-reform-stalls-federal-courts-could-have-a-say/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Von Drehle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When President Obama and Democrats in Congress say they would like to pass a comprehensive immigration-reform bill this year, it’s entirely possible that they mean exactly what they say. But in Washington, where taking a statement at face value is the mark of a rube, there’s speculation that, deep down, the Democrats would rather “save the issue” — tweak the process in some way that would make Republican opposition inevitable, then use the failure of reform as a weapon in 2014. That suspicion spiked over the weekend when details of a White House immigration proposal lit up the news sites in time to be squabbled over on the Sunday-morning talk shows. The Administration strongly denied it was tossing a wrench into delicate congressional negotiations, but remember what we just said about taking statements at face value. Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona, a key figure on immigration policy, smelled a rat: &#8220;Does the President really want a result?&#8221; he asked on Meet the Press. “Or does he want another cudgel so he can beat up Republicans to get an advantage in the next election?” (MORE: The Economics of Immigration: Who Wins, Who Loses and Why) So are Democrats secretly maneuvering to save the issue of immigration? Are Republicans cynically accusing the Democrats of trying to save the issue as a way of shifting blame should reform fail? “Oh, what a tangled web we weave,” the writer Walter Scott famously wrote, “when first we practice to deceive.” Of course, the only way to prove conclusively that an issue is not being saved is to reach a compromise and pass a bill. And members of Congress who are participating in bipartisan talks on immigration say they are making progress and a real solution remains possible. But if the issue is saved for the next election, don’t be surprised if the federal courts get involved. A lawsuit pending in Fort Worth asks a U.S. district judge to render President Obama’s 2012 Executive Order on immigration null and void. The order, circulated by Department of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=88441&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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