WASHINGTON (Marke****ch) — New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg came to Washington Wednesday with a plan for comprehensive immigration reform, calling on Congress to adopt four ideas he believes will speed economic recovery and create jobs.
“As we approach the end of 2011, two things are clear: the American economy remains in serious trouble, and more of the same isn’t doing the trick to keep us out of that,” said Bloomberg, who spoke before the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Read more here
Jose Antonio Vargas, who started lobbying for immigration reform after revealing in The New York Times Magazine that he has been in the U.S. illegally since he was 12, is now writing about immigration issues and critiquing media coverage. His stories will be published on the website of his advocacy organization Define American.
“Immigration is an issue I never squarely faced; it’s an issue I never fully and deeply reported on,” Vargas writes in his first post, noting that perhaps 10 of his 600 or so stories dealt with the issue. “That changes now.” Read more here
“As we approach the end of 2011, two things are clear: the American economy remains in serious trouble, and more of the same isn’t doing the trick to keep us out of that,” said Bloomberg, who spoke before the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Read more here
Jose Antonio Vargas, who started lobbying for immigration reform after revealing in The New York Times Magazine that he has been in the U.S. illegally since he was 12, is now writing about immigration issues and critiquing media coverage. His stories will be published on the website of his advocacy organization Define American.
“Immigration is an issue I never squarely faced; it’s an issue I never fully and deeply reported on,” Vargas writes in his first post, noting that perhaps 10 of his 600 or so stories dealt with the issue. “That changes now.” Read more here
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