US Immigration News

The Indian outsourcing firm Infosys is being sued for discrimination in a US court. The case revolves around Infosys' use of H-1B 'specialty occupation' non-immigrant (temporary residence) visas. Infosys denies any wrongdoing.

President Barack Obama is preparing to use his executive powers as President to reform the US immigration system, because of the inability of Congress to pass immigration reform legislation. This is despite the fact that both main political parties the Democrats and Republicans agree that change is necessary.

It seems increasingly likely that Republican members of Congress will attempt to impeach President Obama in a battle over immigration reform.

The President is set to use his executive powers to reform the US immigration system. This will, almost inevitably, lead to impeachment proceedings being launched by Republicans who say that the President is using his powers unconstitutionally.

Two of the most famous businessmen in the world, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, have called on the US Congress to pass an immigration reform bill.

The two men were joined by a third US businessman, Sheldon Adelson, as signatories of an opinion piece in the New York Times in which they called on all parties, but particularly Republican members of the House of Representatives, to 'break the immigration impasse'.

By Alex Owen

On Monday 30th June 2014, after waiting for more than a year for Congress to pass an immigration reform bill, President Obama finally admitted that reform legislation is unlikely to be passed by both Houses of Congress. In a speech from the Rose Garden in the White House, he said that his administration will now take steps to reform the US's immigration system without the support of Congress.

President Obama made immigration reform one of his top priorities for his second term. This may, ironically, be why he has not managed to achieve it. Some Republicans in the House of Representatives seem to have taken it as a personal challenge to prevent it from happening.

Now, it seems that the consensus viewof both parties and of both sides of the immigration argument is thatthe Republicans in the House (as it is known) have won. There will be no immigrationreform while President Obama is president.