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On Tuesday 18th September 2012, a US district judge, Judge Susan Bolton, lifted an injunction blocking Arizona police from enforcing a controversial law aimed at illegal immigrants.
The Law, part of Senate Bill 1070, introduced in 2010, provides that police officers who stop anyone in Arizona must ask the person stopped to show proof of his or her right to reside in the US, if the officer believes that the person stopped may be an illegal immigrant.
Republicans and Democrats are unable to reach agreement in the United States Congress over legislation that would allow more foreign-born graduates from US universities to get visas allowing them to work in the US. There are currently two bills before Congress which would grant more visas to science and technology graduates. One was sponsored by the Republicans and the other by the Democrats. Because they will not support each other's laws, it seems that neither bill will be passed.
The Republican candidate for the US presidential election on November 6th, Mitt Romney, is to make a speech to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in Los Angeles today 17th September 2012. He will tell them that if he is elected, he will work with Republicans and Democrats to 'fix' the US immigration system. Mr Romney will say 'Americans may disagree about how to fix our immigration system but I think we can all agree that it is broken'.
President Obama told a Spanish television interviewer on Thursday 13th September 2012 that he had not broken a campaign promise by his failure to reform the United States law on illegal immigration during his first term. He later said that he will try to reintroduce the bill in his second term if re-elected.
