Immigration bill at center of new fight
The fight over an immigration reform bill heightened Thursday after the governor blasted the compromise the Senate thought he would support.
The fight over an immigration reform bill heightened Thursday after the governor blasted the compromise the Senate thought he would support.
The fight over an immigration reform bill heightened Thursday after the governor blasted the compromise the Senate thought he would support.
A former Republican Party official seeking to oust U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham in the June 10 party primary on Thursday announced his opposition to any merger between Canada, Mexico and the United States - though no such merger has been proposed.
A resolution to the House-Senate standoff on the immigration reform bill will have to wait until next week. Lawmakers adjourned Thursday after more accusations against each other but no movement toward agreement.
Agreement on an immigration bill disintegrated Wednesday as House and Senate members of a committee assigned to work out differing versions raised their voices at each other and blamed each other for the failure.
Under a new proposal, three regional prisons would hold all of South Carolina's illegal immigrants as they await deportation, officials said, easing the burden on local jails but raising the concerns of some advocates for the poor.
There's pride in every word as Joe Defeo recounts his family's history, how his grandparents migrated from Italy the right way. "My grandparents came through Ellis Island from Italy," he said.
In the summer of 2005, a young man from Mexico was shot to death after an alcohol-fueled argument in a Green Sea house full of migrant workers.
Some people say they are responsible for additional crime, while others say they commit fewer crimes than citizens. Others say immigrants are more likely to be victimized, and thus need extra protection. High-profile instances, such as several in the Grand Strand in recent years, also help shape perspectives:
In the deputy coroner's office, serene photos on shelf after shelf depict headstones from the world's most lavish cemeteries - stone angels and crosses marking the graves of the wealthy or celebrated dead.
How much crime are immigrants, illegal or otherwise, responsible for? Those who advocate for lower levels of immigration are often quick to find crime threats from immigrants, while other studies find evidence of lower crime rates.