The infographic shares the number and percentage of foreign born residents in the US in the year 2011. The maximum percentage was that of Mexico born people with 29% while those from South and East Asia closely followed with 25%.
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On Tuesday, the President made it clear on a Spanish language TV network Univision that once the fiscal crisis is resolved, the immigration reform issue would become a top priority. Immigration reform has been sidetracked as the issues of Syria, the government shutdown and debt default had become a priority.
The President’s re-election was largely supported by Hispanic voters who demand immigration reform for the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the US.
The immigration reform bill was passed in the Senate with an overwhelming majority of 68-32; however, the House of Representatives with a Republican majority simply denied taking it up. The Republican majority is working on its own version of the immigration reform bill which does not include a path to citizenship for the undocumented. In addition, they demand a piecemeal approach to passing immigration reform with increased border security as the priority.
President Barack Obama blamed the House Speaker John Boehner for not letting immigration reform come up for a vote in the House.
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Protestors chained themselves to buses and blocked entrance to federal courthouse in Arizona. The protests were held at immigration proceedings in Tucson which were carried out for deportations of illegal immigrants.
Two buses that were on their way to court for immigration cases were stopped for more than four hours from early morning as immigrant rights activists locked themselves to the vehicles. The other six chained themselves at one of the gates at the vehicle entrance at the court. Other demonstrators cheered the chained protestors.
According to ABC news, the 70 detainees remained in the bus throughout the protests. Authorities negotiated with the protest leaders but were compelled to forcibly remove them. The police had to cut the chains and arrest them. The six protestors at the courthouse gates voluntarily removed themselves after finding out the bus protest had come to an end.
The protests were targeted at controversial deportation program Operation Streamline where detainees meet attorneys on the morning of the court proceedings. However, since the detainees were unable to meet with their respective attorneys, the proceedings were cancelled.
Despite shutdown, the courthouse was functioning with reduced functions since the judiciary provides the funding for the operations. The proceedings will be delayed to next week after the federal holiday to decide the fate of the detainees.
On Thursday, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services agents delivered a warning letter to House Republicans specifically Rep Luis Gutierrez, Rep Paul Ryan, Rep Bob Goodlatte and Rep Eric Cantor against passing a bill that is amnesty for the undocumented.
The Council President at USCIS, Kenneth Palinkas, wrote that the House may be on a path that may lead to more obstacles and roadblocks for the USCIS agents to protect the nation’s security and the American Taxpayer. He added that according to media reports Majority leader Eric Cantor, Chairman Bob Goodlatte and Chairman Paul Ryan and Rep. Luis Gutierrez are working on proposals that are likely to open benefits of citizenship to illegal immigrants and expanding other visa programs. He warns that the piecemeal approach of passing a series of separate bills will use the Senate immigration bill as the starting point.
He says passing the bill would affect the way USCIS works which in turn will affect millions of citizenship, visa and green card applications currently under review. This would lead to widespread abuses that may invite disaster.
He believes that USCIS needs to be reformed first before the changes are made to the agency. The agency has been corrupted by politics before any amnesty proposal is brought up in the House.
Finally, he suggested that the taxpayer can be best served by screening new applicants and prevent abuses of immigrant benefits.
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