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A Democrat Senator in the New York State Legislature has proposed a radical plan to grant 'state citizenship to up to 2.5m illegal residents in the state.

Senator Gustavo Rivera who represents the Bronx, New York City, in the state Senate, proposed the new state law on 16th June. State citizenship (assuming such a thing is permitted under US law) would allow anyone who could prove that they had lived in the state for over three years to receive a range of civic benefits.

Right wing columnist Ann Coulter has written an article complaining about the World Cup. Ms Coulter does not approve of the World Cup for a host of ill-thought-through and prejudiced reasons, chief among which is her concern that 'No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer'.

It is, therefore, an immigrant's game. Ms Coulter says 'One can only hope that, in addition to learning English, these new Americans [who like soccer] will drop their soccer fetish with time.

The United States Department of State (DOS) has released its July 2014 Visa Bulletin.

The bulletin reveals that the DOS has made considerable progress in bringing cut-off dates forward but there are still considerable delays, particularly in the EB-3 visa category where there is a minimum waiting time of three years plus.

EB-3 applicants from China and India are currently waiting for eight to ten years for a permanent residence visa (or 'green card' as they are popularly known).

The full figures are laid out in a table below.

FWD.us, the immigration reform pressure group founded by senior IT industry figures is holding a egrowthathonf to apply pressure to members of the House of Representatives to make them pass an immigration reform bill before August 1st.

The egrowthathonf involves many tech industry figures coming together to try to come up with ideas that will increase pressure on anti-reform Representatives to pass the Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act which was passed by the Senate in June 2013.

Comment by Alex Owen

To many who have followed our posts on US immigration over the last couple of years, the US political system may resemble a game – a game played by two 'teams' – the Republicans and the Democrats.

A game a bit like football, or, as the Americans call it, soccer. Both are games with rules which the uninitiated cannot understand. They are games which stir mighty passions and games which can move their supporters to violence.

The US World Cup football team (or soccer team as the Americans call it) has been dragged into the seemingly endless debate on US immigration reform.

On Tuesday June 17th, Nancy Pelosi, the leader of the Democrats in the US House of Representatives, and several other pro-immigration reform campaigners, posted a photograph of members of the US team on Twitter.