Number: RL32235
Title: U.S. Immigration Policy on Permanent Admissions
Authors: Ruth Ellen Wasem, Domestic Social Policy Division 
Abstract: Legal immigration reform has stalled in the 110th Congress. A bipartisan compromise proposal for comprehensive immigration reform negotiated with the Bush Administration was introduced in the Senate on May 21, 2007, as S.Amdt. 1150 to S. 1348. A modified version of that compromise (S. 1639) came to the Senate floor the week of June 26, 2007, but a key cloture vote did not pass. The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law held multiple hearings weekly in April, May, and June of 2007 on various aspects of comprehensive immigration reform. On September 6, 2007, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law held a hearing on H.R. 1645, the Security Through Regularized Immigration and a Vibrant Economy (STRIVE) Act of 2007.
Pages: 35
Date: February 29, 2008