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Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf: Cities must keep pushing for immigrant rights
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Demonstrators supporting immigrant rights gather in Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood for a march toward downtown in May 2007.Darryl Bush / The Chronicle 2007
Three years ago Oakland sounded an alarm when we learned of a secret operation by President Donald Trump to attempt mass deportations of immigrants from our community. I knew the impending ICE raid on our city would have undoubtedly torn parents away from children, husbands away from wives.
Instead of standing down, we chose to speak up.
It’s hard to look back and make sense of the despotic, tyrannical cloud we all lived under. Immediately after our warning in Oakland, the U.S. attorney general attempted to ban federal aid to Oakland and all sanctuary cities. The president of the United States called for my imprisonment a punishment I said I would accept and then moved to hold immigrant children in cages. A R
Biden admn introduces ambitious immigration bill in Congress; Indian IT professionals to be benefited
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Last Updated: Feb 19, 2021, 12:17 PM IST
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The bill, if passed by both the chambers of the Congress - House of Representatives and the Senate - and signed into law by President Joe Biden would bring citizenship to millions of foreign nationals, including undocumented and those who came to the country legally.
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Naureen Shah, senior advocacy and policy counsel for ACLU, said the Act is evidence that President Biden hears the resounding mandate of the election.
In a major move that will benefit hundreds and thousands of Indian IT professionals in America, the Biden administration has introduced an ambitious immigration bill in Congress which among other things proposes to eliminate the per-country cap for employment-based green cards.
US News: The million-dollar question is whether the US Citizenship Act will become law? To pass in the Senate it needs 60 votes (which means at least ten Repub.
US Citizenship Bill to help many Indians PTI
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Authors of the bill told reporters that the bill establishes a moral and economic imperative and a vision of immigration reform
The bill, if passed by both the chambers of the Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden would bring citizenship to millions of foreign nationals. (Representational Image/PTI)
Washington: A bicameral US Citizenship Act of 2021 proposing a pathway to citizenship to 11 million undocumented workers, elimination of per country quota for employment-based green cards and work authorisation for dependents of H-1B foreign workers, was introduced in the Congress.