<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Immigration Policy: News &amp; Videos about Immigration Policy - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Immigration_Policy</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Immigration Policy from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:38:29 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>Immigration Policy: News &amp; Videos about Immigration Policy - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com//cnn/2009/US/10/22/lia.detained.children/tztop.detained.children.cnn.jpg</url><link>http://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Immigration_Policy</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Immigration Policy from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>Detained immigrant children face legal maze in U.S.</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/10/22/lia.detained.children/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/10/22/lia.detained.children/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>When "Marta" was 12, she entered the United States illegally, hoping to join her mother, who had left her in Central America years ago to search for work. Three years later she was sitting in immigration detention by herself waiting to be deported back home to her grandmother, who was dying of cancer.</description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:24:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Obama drops ball on immigration</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/25/navarrette.obama.immigration/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/25/navarrette.obama.immigration/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>President Obama has placed the immigration reform community at the back of the bus.</description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:53:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: States should decide on gay marriage</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/24/polis.gay.marriage/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/24/polis.gay.marriage/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>After weeks of looking for the perfect puppy, my partner Marlon and I adopted Gia last month from the Colorado Humane Society and brought her back to Washington with us.</description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:03:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>France bulldozes migrant 'Jungle'</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/09/22/calais.france.illegal.migrants.removal/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/09/22/calais.france.illegal.migrants.removal/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>French authorities on Tuesday dismantled a makeshift camp dubbed "the Jungle," which housed illegal migrants fleeing dangerous homelands to seek a more prosperous life in Europe.</description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:41:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Immigration reform takes courage</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/29/navarrette.immigration.reform/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/29/navarrette.immigration.reform/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The advocates of comprehensive immigration reform have a message for their opponents: "Game on!"</description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:41:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Immigration reform urgently needed</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/25/polis.immigration/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/25/polis.immigration/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Twelve-year-old Josh Garcia courageously took the stage. Fighting back tears, he told how he came home from school one day to find that his father had been taken into an immigration detention facility.</description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:28:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Illegal immigrants detained, then freed to work</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/04/17/immigration.raid/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/04/17/immigration.raid/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>After 11 years of living illegally in the United States, it was not until Gerardo Arreola Gonzalez was nearly deported that he finally received permission to work here.</description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:35:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Study: 4 million 'illegal' immigrant children are native-born citizens</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/04/14/citizen.children/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/04/14/citizen.children/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Julie Quiroz, a 14-year-old U.S. citizen, has been separated from her mother for nearly two years. Her mom was deported to Mexico for being in the United States illegally.</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:39:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Immigration reform: Will the climate ever be right?</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/10/obama.immigration/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/10/obama.immigration/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Word that President Obama might pile comprehensive immigration reform onto his already-full plate reignited calls from some for an urgent overhaul and brought cries from others that the timing couldn't be worse.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:57:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Obama not pushing to pass immigration reform this year</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/09/obama.immigration/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/09/obama.immigration/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Multiple Obama administration officials tell CNN that the White House is not pushing to pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill this year.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:31:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Do Obama, Biden agree on immigration?</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/10/navarrette.immigration/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/10/navarrette.immigration/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The Obama administration's stance on immigration reform is like a never-ending telenovela with multiple plot twists --sometimes more than one in the same news cycle.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:13:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Time for immigration reform is now</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/20/navarrette.immigration/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/20/navarrette.immigration/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Obviously, President Obama has a lot on his plate: two wars, an ailing economy, the mortgage crisis and more. But that doesn't relieve him of the obligation to serve up his plan for immigration reform.</description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:12:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: McCain can't catch a break</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/29/navarrette.immigration/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/29/navarrette.immigration/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Thanks to the immigration issue, many Latinos think of Democrats as the good guys and Republicans as the bad guys. It's an attitude that spells trouble for John McCain.</description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:45:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: McCain's Latino ad hits target, Obama's misses</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/18/navarrette.obama.ad/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/18/navarrette.obama.ad/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The new offensive in the presidential election is a Spanish-language air war in which each party is trying to convince Latino voters that the other is no amigo to the nation's largest minority and that it did them wrong during the immigration debacle in Congress.</description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:58:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. teen: 'I felt like there were no dreams for me'</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/09/10/citizen.children/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/09/10/citizen.children/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Julie Quiroz clutches her teddy bear crying. "Mommy," she says softly, as her mother wraps her arms around her and rubs her back. One of her brothers tries to console her. "You're going to come back," he says.</description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:05:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Self-Deportation Program Scrapped</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1834954,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1834954,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>A pilot program allowing illegal immigrants to surrender to authorities and have more control over their deportation has been dubbed a failure</description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. to urge 'fugitive aliens' to surrender</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/07/30/ice.fugitive.alien/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/07/30/ice.fugitive.alien/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>U.S. immigration officials, taking a new tack to solve an old, intractable problem, say they will give "fugitive aliens" in certain cities incentives to surrender during a three-week period in August.</description><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:47:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>McCain reassures Latinos on immigration reform</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/14/latino.vote/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/14/latino.vote/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Sen. John McCain on Monday sought to reassure Hispanic voters of his commitment to them after Sen. Barack Obama accused him of backing down on immigration reform for political reasons.</description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:52:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Candidates target crucial voting blocs</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/13/campaign.wrap/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/13/campaign.wrap/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain are starting the week reaching out to two crucial voting blocs -- Hispanic and African-American voters.</description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:11:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Obama, McCain battle for Latino voters</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/08/campaign.wrap/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/08/campaign.wrap/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The fight for Hispanic voters took center stage Tuesday as Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama took their campaigns to Washington to address the League of United Latin American Citizens.</description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:39:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>McCain, Obama court Latino voters</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/28/mccain.obama.latino/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/28/mccain.obama.latino/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama took their campaigns back to Washington on Saturday in an effort to reach out to Latinos.</description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:41:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: How to fix our broken immigration system</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/23/navarrette/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/23/navarrette/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>In a recent commentary, I spelled out what bothers many Hispanics about the immigration debate.  In response, many readers demanded to know -- for all my criticisms -- how I would go about fixing our broken immigration system. I thought they'd never ask.</description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:10:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Analysis: McCain's uphill battle on illegal immigration</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/21/mccain.hispanics/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/21/mccain.hispanics/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>In recent days, Sen. Barack Obama has backed off his harshest criticisms of the North American Free Trade Agreement, and he's changed his stance on campaign financing, electing to decline the federal funds for the general election -- prompting charges of flip-flopping.</description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:24:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>McCain courts Hispanic voters</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/05/mccain/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/05/mccain/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Sen. John McCain said Monday the tenor of the immigration debate has hurt the way Hispanic voters view the Republican Party.</description><pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 01:10:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Protesters across America call for immigration reform</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/05/01/immigration.protests/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/05/01/immigration.protests/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Thousands of demonstrators gathered in U.S. cities Thursday to protest federal immigration raids and deportations and to call for comprehensive immigration reform.</description><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 02:16:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Filmmakers take immigration debate to YouTube</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/05/01/immigration.lens/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/05/01/immigration.lens/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Equipped with a small video camera, a laptop and a point of view, filmmakers Eric Byler and Annabel Park are trying to influence the heated immigration debate in a suburban Virginia county outside Washington.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 19:11:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Immigrant Rights Activists Protest</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1736680,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1736680,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Thousands of immigrants and activists gathered in cities across the country Thursday to demand comprehensive immigration reform</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 19:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: 10 ugly things about the immigration debate</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/28/navarrette/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/28/navarrette/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>In a recent commentary, I wrote that, as a Mexican-American, the ugliness of the immigration debate offends me -- not as a Mexican, but as an American.</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:55:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>How illegal immigration is dividing a town's business owners</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/04/17/smbusiness/illegal_immigration_dividing.fsb/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/04/17/smbusiness/illegal_immigration_dividing.fsb/index.htm</guid><description>A barbershop quartet sings "The Girl From Ipanema" in Portuguese on a television dialed to a Brazilian satellite channel inside Pavilion Barbecue, where the air is piquant with the aroma of the house specialty, frango de churrasco - slow-roasted chicken braised in red chili sauce.</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:13:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Immigration's yin and yang</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/03/31/navarrette.opinion/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/03/31/navarrette.opinion/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Not long ago, I got an illuminating e-mail from a woman who went off about how the federal government had to stop the "invasion" of illegal immigrants from Mexico and how the Mexican government had to stop its people from crossing into the United States without proper documents. </description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:13:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Has the GOP lost Latino voters?</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/15/latinos.gop/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/15/latinos.gop/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>There's a dilemma brewing among Latino voters: If they support Sen. John McCain, long seen as a moderate Republican on immigration reform, they also must deal with his party's tough approach toward the hot button issue.</description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:08:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Mexico Tries to Help Deportees 
 
</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1710851,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1710851,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Many immigrants sent by the U.S. back to Mexico have little real connection with the country. Now Mexico is trying to help with "humane repatriation" 
</description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Opponent of illegal immigration ends White House bid</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/20/trancredo/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/20/trancredo/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Rep. Tom Tancredo abandoned his long-shot bid for the Republican presidential nomination Thursday and endorsed Mitt Romney's candidacy, saying the Massachusetts Republican "can go the distance."</description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:03:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Romney paints Huckabee as soft on illegal immigration</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/11/romney.huckabee.immigration/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/11/romney.huckabee.immigration/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney is attacking Mike Huckabee on his record of illegal immigration in a new TV ad, a move the latter labeled as "desperate."</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:10:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Immigration: The Hottest Issue</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1688794,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1688794,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>No, it's not Iraq. Candidates in both parties are surprised by the public's anger over illegal immigrants</description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Local police shouldn't enforce immigration law</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/10/22/navarrette/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/10/22/navarrette/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The wacky world of immigration reform is full of half-baked ideas, but none has the taste of having spent less time in the oven than letting local cops enforce federal immigration law.</description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:52:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>McCain says his White House campaign 'going to be just fine' </title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/08/29/mccain.interview/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/08/29/mccain.interview/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Sen. John McCain insisted Wednesday he is happy with his presidential campaign despite staff shake-ups, fundraising woes and stagnant poll numbers.</description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 01:19:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Fallout from a Deportation</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1654871,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1654871,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Elvira Arellano is back in Mexico, and opponents of illegal immigration hope her deportion will mark the start of a crackdown. But that isn't likely</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>States Fill Immigration Policy Void</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1650068,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1650068,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>State lawmakers are increasingly stepping into the void created by the failure of Congress to approve sweeping changes to immigration policy</description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Can Two Kids Alter Immigration Law?</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1649483,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1649483,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>A sadly routine deportation case -- and an obscure immigration bill -- has got the attention of Congress, thanks to some high school students intent on saving their friends</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 02:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Plenty of hurdles ahead for immigration bill</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/06/26/immigration.next/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/06/26/immigration.next/index.html</guid><description>Though the Senate voted Tuesday to bring President Bush's immigration reform bill back to the Senate floor, objections to any of two dozen amendments to be debated starting Wednesday could kill the bill for the year.</description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:16:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>GOP Seeks More Immigration Enforcement</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1636516,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1636516,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>New requirements to track down, deport and permanently bar people who overstay their visas would be added to a broad immigration bill under a GOP bid to attract more Republican support</description><pubDate>Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:50:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Reluctant Dems on Immigration Reform</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1635122,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1635122,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>To win over the holdouts in her own party, Nancy Pelosi may break the immigration bill into pieces</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:35:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>New Life for Immigration Reform</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1633262,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1633262,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>The President's emphasis on border security has given his bill a second chance, but he's still a long way from victory</description><pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Deal gives immigration bill new life</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/06/15/congress.immigration.bill/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/06/15/congress.immigration.bill/index.html</guid><description>The morning after Senate leaders had revived his immigration reform bill, which a week ago appeared stalled, President Bush spoke to the Latino group Esperanza -- "hope" in Spanish.</description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:23:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush Tries to Save Immigration Bill</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1631758,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1631758,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>The President goes to Capitol Hill in an effort save the troubled bill </description><pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:20:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Dobbs: Give it a rest, Mr. President</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/06/12/Dobbs.June13/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/06/12/Dobbs.June13/index.html</guid><description>President Bush is building his legacy, adding another unfortunate line of hollow bravado to his rhetorical repertoire. To "Mission accomplished," "Bring it on," "Wanted: Dead or alive," and of course, "I earned ... political capital, and now I intend to spend it," he has added "I'll see you at the bill signing," referring to his own ill-considered push for so-called comprehensive immigration reform legislation.</description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:03:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush: Immigration bill will enforce borders, workplaces</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/06/12/immigration/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/06/12/immigration/index.html</guid><description>President Bush broke bread with resistant Senate Republicans on Tuesday, but the fate of a White House-supported immigration bill remained uncertain.</description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:35:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Immigration bill collapse could hurt, or help, McCain</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/06/08/schneider.immigration.fallout/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/06/08/schneider.immigration.fallout/index.html</guid><description>Is there likely to be political fallout from the immigration vote?</description><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007 21:57:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Your e-mails: Thoughts on overhauling immigration </title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/06/08/immigration.reform.feedback/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/06/08/immigration.reform.feedback/index.html</guid><description>A "grand compromise" immigration bill suffered a major setback in the U.S. Senate this week.</description><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007 16:19:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>McCain stands alone on immigration bill</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/06/05/debate.immigration/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/06/05/debate.immigration/index.html</guid><description>Sen. John McCain defended his support of a controversial immigration reform bill from criticism by other Republican presidential hopefuls Tuesday night as the GOP contenders held their first debate in New Hampshire.</description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 03:57:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Dobbs: New immigration plan ignores history's lessons</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/05/22/Dobbs.May23/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/05/22/Dobbs.May23/index.html</guid><description>There are times when reason carries the mind no further, when the mind is carried from the rational across the penumbra of the absurd. That is where the leadership of the U.S. Senate now resides.</description><pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2007 21:43:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Is immigration reform Bush's last hurrah?</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/05/18/schneider.bush.immigration/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/05/18/schneider.bush.immigration/index.html</guid><description>What's the political significance of immigration reform for President Bush?</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2007 21:26:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>'Bargain' aims to deal with border, then guest workers</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/05/09/immigration.debate/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/05/09/immigration.debate/index.html</guid><description>Senators may have mended fences on contentious immigration legislation that sputtered in Congress last year, and they will head into next week's debate with what one GOP senator called a "grand bargain."</description><pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2007 14:37:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Immigration compromise continues to elude lawmakers</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/05/01/immigration.bill/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/05/01/immigration.bill/index.html</guid><description>As advocates for immigration reform marched at sites across the country Tuesday, their protests were aimed squarely at Capitol Hill, where lawmakers have been struggling, without success, to come up with a compromise on the contentious issue.</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 21:21:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush promises push for immigration reform</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/03/13/bush.mexico/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/03/13/bush.mexico/index.html</guid><description>President Bush vowed Tuesday to do all he can to push for changes in U.S. immigration laws, and stressed that he and his Mexican counterpart, Felipe Calderon, were working together on immigration issues.</description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:49:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Dobbs: Border fence will leave Texas-size hole   </title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/10/24/Dobbs.Oct25/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/10/24/Dobbs.Oct25/index.html</guid><description>President Bush will sign the Secure Fence Act into law Thursday at a public ceremony in the White House Roosevelt Room, reversing his earlier decision to withhold the pomp and circumstance.</description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2006 22:35:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Immigration: Key dates</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/09/27/elec.keydates.immigration/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/09/27/elec.keydates.immigration/index.html</guid><description>Some key dates surrounding the immigration issue:</description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:38:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Navarrette: Politicians fan language war</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/07/20/navarrette/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/07/20/navarrette/index.html</guid><description>Exactly what does promoting the English language have to do with protecting borders and reforming immigration policy?</description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:38:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>House hearings threaten Senate immigration bill</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/06/21/immigration.hearings/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/06/21/immigration.hearings/index.html</guid><description>In a move that could prevent immigration legislation from passing Congress this year, the House will begin a fresh series of hearings on immigration next month, Republican leaders announced Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2006 12:41:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>First Guard troops set to work at Mexican border</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/06/05/guard.border/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/06/05/guard.border/index.html</guid><description>The first of about 6,000 National Guard troops ordered to bolster patrols along the U.S.-Mexico border started work Monday as a 55-member detachment from Utah began working on projects in southern Arizona, a Guard spokesman said.</description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2006 07:31:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush calls for House, Senate compromise on immigration</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/06/01/immigration/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/06/01/immigration/index.html</guid><description>President Bush Thursday urged the House and Senate to work out compromise legislation on immigration reform, and said opponents of one of his key proposals are taking an approach that's "wrong and unrealistic."</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2006 11:03:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush: U.S. 'a lawful society and a welcoming society'</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/15/bush.immigration.text/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/15/bush.immigration.text/index.html</guid><description>In an address to the nation Monday evening, President Bush called for Congress to pass comprehensive immigration that strengthens border security, enforces immigration laws and includes a guest-worker program.</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2006 23:42:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush calls for 6,000 troops along border</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/15/immigration/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/15/immigration/index.html</guid><description>President Bush outlined Monday night what he termed a "comprehensive" approach to immigration that combines tougher border enforcement with a guest-worker program.</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2006 11:16:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Dobbs to president: Do you take us for fools? </title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/05/10/dobbs.enforcement/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/05/10/dobbs.enforcement/index.html</guid><description>Reports this week that the Border Patrol is notifying the Mexican government of the locations of Minutemen volunteers are being denied by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. True or not, the Bush administration continues to follow absurd policies on both issues of border security and illegal immigration.</description><pubDate>Wed, 10 May 2006 16:12:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush renews push for 'comprehensive' immigration bill</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/04/bush.immigration/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/04/bush.immigration/index.html</guid><description>President Bush reiterated his support for a guest worker program Thursday during a Cinco de Mayo event in the White House's East Room.</description><pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2006 18:50:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Immigration </title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/04/25/extra.immigration.terms/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/04/25/extra.immigration.terms/index.html</guid><description>The subject of immigration has been hotly debated since the founding of the United States. Questions about who should be allowed to enter and how they should be treated when they do have generated centuries of immigration legislation. Since Congress took up the issue of immigration reform, demonstrations have erupted around the United States. Use the information in this Extra! to help students examine the issue of immigration.</description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 14:46:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Debate over the jobs Americans 'just won't do'</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/04/24/smbusiness/immigration_reform/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/04/24/smbusiness/immigration_reform/index.htm</guid><description>Are there really jobs that Americans just won't do?</description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2006 14:47:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hundreds seized in immigration raids</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/LAW/04/19/immigration.raids/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/LAW/04/19/immigration.raids/index.html</guid><description>Federal immigration authorities rounded up more than 1,000 illegal immigrants at dozens of sites and charged nine individuals of the firm that employed them, federal law enforcement officials announced Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Apr 2006 01:28:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Let's get real on the immigration problem</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/29/news/economy/pluggedin_fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/29/news/economy/pluggedin_fortune/index.htm</guid><description>For somebody who isn't sure what to think about the immigration battle being waged these days in Congress, Jagdish Bhagwati's column in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal was strangely reassuring.</description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Apr 2006 12:58:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>First, secure our borders</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/04/10/schwarzenegger/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/04/10/schwarzenegger/index.html</guid><description>(CNN) -- California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today called our current immigration system "bad policy" in a Wall Street Journal editorial.</description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Apr 2006 21:42:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rallies across U.S. call for illegal immigrant rights</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/10/immigration/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/10/immigration/index.html</guid><description>Hundreds of thousands of protesters turned out Monday in small towns and big cities across the United States, demanding that undocumented immigrants get a chance to live the American dream.</description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Apr 2006 11:29:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Lawmakers: Immigration bill not dead</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/09/immigration/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/09/immigration/index.html</guid><description>Lawmakers traded blame Sunday over the impasse that left immigration legislation stalled last week in the Senate, expressing hope that the push for an election-year overhaul was not dead.</description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Apr 2006 21:58:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The immigration divide</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/04/02/coverstory.tm/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/04/02/coverstory.tm/index.html</guid><description>The numbers tell the story -- one of conflicted values and little resolution.</description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 16:09:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Seven held in UK dawn raids</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/09/15/uk.arrests/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/09/15/uk.arrests/index.html</guid><description>Authorities in Britain have detained seven foreign nationals who are seen as a threat to national security, the UK Home Office said.</description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2005 07:40:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>A looming battle over immigration policy?</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/12/08/intel.bill/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/12/08/intel.bill/index.html</guid><description>Congress may have put off immigration issues for now, in the hopes of passing the intelligence reform bill, but a battle over immigration policy may be looming right around the corner.</description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2004 17:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Blair in immigration crisis summit</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/04/06/uk.immigration/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/04/06/uk.immigration/index.html</guid><description>UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has held an emergency summit with top Cabinet officials in an effort to stop abuse of the country's immigration system.</description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2004 08:51:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush announces changes to immigration policy</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/01/09/ip.pol.opinion.immigration/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/01/09/ip.pol.opinion.immigration/index.html</guid><description>Advice to politicians: Do something unpredictable. You will surprise your supporters. You will disconcert your critics.</description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2004 20:15:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush calls for changes on illegal workers</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/01/07/bush.immigration/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/01/07/bush.immigration/index.html</guid><description>Saying the United States needs an immigration system "that serves the American economy and reflects the American dream," President Bush Wednesday outlined an plan to revamp the nation's immigration laws and allow some eight million illegal immigrants to obtain legal status as temporary workers.</description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2004 13:30:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>IS IMMIGRATION HURTING THE U.S.? No. Low-skilled Americans have the most to lose. But on balance, the newcomers create far more </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/08/09/78176/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/08/09/78176/index.htm</guid><description>A RECORD nine million people immigrated to the U.S. in the 1980s, roughly equal to the number of tempest-tossed citizens now out of work and yearning to rejoin the labor market. This coincidence ha...</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 1993 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>THE NEW BATTLE OVER IMMIGRATION America needs skills. So should it admit people from abroad because they have these skills -- or</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/05/09/70514/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/05/09/70514/index.htm</guid><description>CONSIDER HOW AMERICA might look in the year 2000 unless it admits more immigrants: The labor force is aging and shrinking -- a legacy of the baby- boom generation, whose panda-like reproductive pat...</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 May 1988 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>