Passage of President Barack Obama's historic health care bill would "pretty much kill" chances for a sweeping immigration overhaul this year, a Republican senator warned Friday. "The first casualty of the Democratic health care bill will be immigration reform," said Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, co-author of a bipartisan framework for comprehensive changes to US immigration policy. "If the health ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, under pressure to keep a campaign promise to revamp U.S. immigration policy, embraced a "promising, bipartisan framework" on Thursday offered by two senior senators. Obama said the proposal by Democrat Charles Schumer and Republican Lindsey Graham, which features a new identification card for U.S. citizens and legal immigrants who want a job, "can ...

President Barack Obama, facing criticism from advocates of immigration reform, pledged Thursday "to do everything in my power" to get immigration legislation moving in Congress this year. Obama said work on an immigration bill should move forward based on an outline released Thursday by Sens. Chuck Schumer, D-N ...

Two senators Thursday outlined a bipartisan framework for comprehensive immigration reform legislation, drawing immediate praise from President Barack Obama. Democratic Senator Charles Schumer and Republican Senator Lindsey Graham's bill would lay the path to legalization for the country's estimated 11 million illegal immigrants, reinforce border controls and create a process to admit temporary workers and produce biometric Social ...