Apr 26 Watch Shields and Brooks on Red Line Reluctance, Flexibility on FAA Furloughs Shields and Brooks on Red Line Reluctance, Flexibility on FAA Furloughs… Continue watching
Apr 26 Non-Citizens Would Earn Legal Status Under Immigration Bill, Meissner Says EmbedVideo(6319, 482, 304); Doris Meissner, director of the Immigration Policy Program at the Migration Policy Institute, says the current proposed immigration bill offers "earned legalization" rather than amnesty. Provisions in an immigration reform bill introduced earlier this month would… Continue reading
Apr 26 Can Celebrities Influence a Student’s Decision to Stay in School? Actor Mark Wahlberg encourages students at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Va., to stay in school. Photo by T.C. Williams Student Reporting Lab. The Journal of Pediatrics recently released results of a study conducted in the United Kingdom… Continue reading
Apr 25 Space Junk Threatens Cascade of Collisions The sheer amount of debris in low-Earth orbit is tipping space dangerously close to a cascade of hazardous collisions, scientists announced at a four-day international meeting on the subject this week. And there is an "urgent need" to… Continue reading
Apr 25 Workers From Other Countries ‘Lifeline’ for U.S., Former INS Chief Says EmbedVideo(6307, 482, 304); Doris Meissner, director of the Migration Policy Institute's immigration policy work, says foreign-born workers are complementary to American workers. The 844-page, bipartisan immigration reform bill released April 18 would refocus American immigration policy toward employment-based… Continue reading
Apr 24 ‘W-Visa’ Would Enable Lower-Skilled Foreigners to Legally Work in U.S. EmbedVideo(6297, 482, 304); Doris Meissner, director of the U.S. Immigration Policy Program at the Migration Policy Institute, says a proposed W-Visa category would for the first time allow low-skilled foreigners to legally work in the U.S. The United States… Continue reading
Apr 23 Forty Percent of Non-Citizens Live in U.S. on Expired Visitor, Student Visas Doris Meissner, director of the U.S. Immigration Policy Program at the Migration Policy Institute, says 40 percent of non-citizens living in the U.S. are "visa overstays."… Continue reading
Apr 23 Welcome the Stranger: Convincing Evangelicals to Support Immigration Reform EmbedVideo(6286, 482, 304); Ray Suarez spoke with Jenny Hwang, the co-author of "Welcoming the Stranger," a book published in 2009 urging evangelicals to look at comprehensive immigration reform based on biblical principles. Recently, there has been a wave of… Continue reading
Apr 23 Evangelicals Rally for Pathway to Citizenship and Immigration Reform Hundreds of Evangelical leaders rallied in Washington to gather political support for comprehensive immigration reform. Continue reading
Apr 23 Boston Bombings Rouse Debate in Senate Immigration Hearing Thousands of people rally for immigration reform in Washington, D.C., earlier this month. Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images. There was little doubt last week's Boston Marathon bombings would be raised during Monday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the… Continue reading