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immigration reform
Welcoming the stranger
On almost every emerging issue of public policy, our community asks the same question, either in audible or hushed voices: “Is it good for the Jews?”
Channeling Purim’s Esther, Jewish women fast for immigration reform
While many devout Jews across the United States and elsewhere observed the pre-Purim tradition of fasting on Thursday, March 13, more than 200 Jewish women and men are going without food today for a different cause: immigration reform.
The proposed reforms, rights and regulations
Immigration Reform: Officially called “The Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act,” the Senate bill passed on June 26 with bipartisan support from 68 senators.
Jewish values inspire immigration reform
Of all the stories of the human condition, in many ways, this is quite ordinary. It’s a story of an elderly grandmother and her granddaughter; of familial love and loss.
One voice for comprehensive immigration reform
Family is the foundation of American society, and united families strengthen us as individuals and as communities. Tragically, many immigrant families remain separated for years — often decades — because of our severely broken immigration system. Bureaucratic visa delays can go on for more than 20 years before a relative can enter the United States legally.
Napolitano at JCPA forum lists ways to fix U.S. immigration system
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told a Jewish conference that the country\’s immigration system is broken.
A gridlock bypass in Congress?
A remarkable thing happened in Washington, D.C., last week. National leaders of business and labor hammered out an outline on immigration reform. This might not only give a major boost to a new immigration policy; it might also show a path around the gridlock that has driven the nation into budgetary face-offs month after month.
Groups press Senate on legalizing undocumented migrants
Jewish groups urged the U.S. Senate to pass legislation that would legalize undocumented immigrants.
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