by Yunita Ong | Mar 19, 2015 | Politics, Topics
By Yunita Ong WASHINGTON — If former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush wants to be the United States’s next president, experts say he will have to work hard to win over the growing voter bloc of millennials. “Millennials are the future of this country – there are 93 million...
by Yunita Ong | Mar 19, 2015 | Immigration
By Yunita Ong WASHINGTON – When Laura Drain moved from Mexico City to Atlanta to be a Hewlett-Packard engineer 15 years ago, she was single and her maiden name, Ramirez, created tensions with her co-workers. “People called me different and the pronunciation of...
by Yunita Ong | Mar 11, 2015 | Immigration, Living
WASHINGTON – The White House on Wednesday hosted its annual celebration of Norwuz, the first day of the New Year on the Persian calendar and the start of spring. With President Barack Obama on the road, first lady Michelle Obama addressed the guests, who...
by Yunita Ong | Mar 4, 2015 | Immigration
WASHINGTON — In the cacophony of debate about immigration, farmers across the nation often shun a completely legal guest-worker visa program. Charging that it’s bureaucratic and insensitive to the industry’s needs, farmers and their advocates for years have been...
by Yunita Ong | Mar 3, 2015 | Politics, Topics
By Yunita Ong and Paige Leskin WASHINGTON – Democratic leaders criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress on Tuesday as “political theater” and an “affront” to President Barack Obama, the State Department and the Democratic Party...
by Yunita Ong | Mar 2, 2015 | Politics
WASHINGTON – When Binh T. Nguyen was younger, her father was killed in a re-education camp in communist-era Vietnam. Now as director of Human Rights for Vietnam PAC, Nguyen feels a strong obligation to advance the rights of fellow Southeast Asians. Nguyen is part of a...
by Yunita Ong | Feb 25, 2015 | Immigration, Politics
WASHINGTON – It could be up to the U.S. House to save the Department of Homeland Security from a partial shutdown, after the Senate on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed a motion to proceed to a funding bill, breaking a two-month political stalemate. The Senate...
by Yunita Ong | Feb 24, 2015 | Immigration, National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, working to avoid an impasse with Democrats, announced Tuesday that a vote on a “clean” Department of Homeland Security funding bill could happen on Friday. McConnell’s move could break a two-month-old political...
by Yunita Ong | Feb 4, 2015 | Immigration
WASHINGTON – House Republicans and Democrats butted heads on Wednesday over a GOP attempt to make electronic verification of the immigration status of new hires mandatory under federal law. Currently, five states require all businesses to use E-Verify, but the...
by Yunita Ong | Feb 3, 2015 | Immigration, Topics
WASHINGTON – Senate Democrats blocked a bill Tuesday that would have overturned President Barack Obama’s order loosening immigration restrictions, a move that leave the Department of Homeland Security funding in question. Three GOP senators, including Majority Leader...
by Yunita Ong | Jan 20, 2015 | National Security, State of the Union
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is likely to sidestep the thorny topic of immigration reform during his State of The Union address Tuesday night in favor of issues such as inequality, experts predict. After the House voted to overturn the president’s...
by Yunita Ong | Jan 14, 2015 | Immigration
WASHINGTON – Although House Republicans on Wednesday blocked President Barack Obama’s recent executive action on immigration, the White House quickly fired back with another veto threat. The GOP-controlled House adopted an amendment, 237-190, to overturn the...
