There is more transparency in legislation than ever before, Miller said. But he disagrees with putting bills up for all to rewrite.
Mike Huckabee and John McCain did a fine job achieving their objectives in Wednesday's Republican presidential debate: Each thoroughly discredited the other. They also disgraced themselves as they pandered relentlessly to the growing anti-immigrant feeling in their party.
As Congress has failed to revamp the nation's infuriating, unjust and unworkable immigration policies, states and communities across the USA have taken matters into their own hands.
Congress has headed back home until fall. This summer's efforts to solve the immigration dilemma are now clearly over. 12 million undocumented workers now reside within US borders, and hundreds of thousands more will cross that line to the South every year.
The US comptroller general David Walker issued a report last week in Chicago in which he likened the present situation in the United States to the Roman Republic or an organization that fails to adapt and "may not survive."
Take away the angry rhetoric, xenophobia, unsubstantiated claims and statistics and we see an problem that is global in scope and range.
With the tax deadline approaching, illegal immigrants are sending in federal returns in what appear to be record numbers despite fears heightened by recent immigration raids around the country.
Obviously Mr M E Guerant had no idea his visa had run out. He's just carried on living illegally in the UK for the last umpteen years because he forgot his visa had expired and no-one thought to remind him.
"I want to be free. I want to go outside, and I want to go to school," pleaded a 9-year-old boy, on the phone from prison. This prison wasn't in some far-off country, some dictatorship where one would expect children to be locked up. He is imprisoned in the United States.
This letter was written by Kevin, a nine year old Canadian citizen, who is currently being detained at the T. Don Hutto Family Detention Center.
Immigration has become a complex and controversial issue for the EU, with economic benefits being weighed up against resistance from voters.
The Federal Government has welcomed a High Court decision which it says confirms that a refugee given temporary protection in Australia will have to return home if conditions in their former country improve.
Immigration control is a global challenge, and yet not one developed country has developed a good workable and acceptable legal immigration plan that eliminates illegal immigration. There are political solutions, and then there are real solutions.
The new immigration bill of the United States has the same deadly flaws already experienced in the EU.
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I still have to wonder how a country founded by immigrants can be so intolerant to what has made it unique and special. This is a sad and painful look at how the value of human life has been devalued in this nation.