Immigration Roundup

Yay:

• Homeland Security Secretary Jane Napolitano announced that it was the agency’s intention to withdraw the Social Security No-Match Regulation
• Council on Foreign Relations Endorses Immigration Reform and Dream Act
• A new fact sheet from America's Voice shows that, despite inside-the-Beltway conventional wisdom and the extremist rhetoric of some Republicans in Congress, self-identified Republican voters strongly support comprehensive immigration reform. Polling conducted by Benenson Strategy Group demonstrates that, like all Americans, Republican voters believe immigration reform to be a serious and important problem for Washington to address now, not later. Despite conventional wisdom to the contrary, Republican voters also overwhelmingly support comprehensive immigration reform, reject enforcement-only approaches and believe that comprehensive reform will help the economy.
• Jeb Bush stated that immigration reform efforts can no longer be delayed.
• Senator Schumer says an immigration bill will be ready by Labor Day
• One bright spot in a largely flawed DHS appropriations bill that passed in the Senate this week was a provision introduced by Senator Hatch (R-UT) to eliminate the widow penalty. This came on the heels of a recent decision by DHS to suspend enforcement of the widow penalty and grant surviving spouses deferred status for two years.

Boo:

• Senate Votes for Expansion of Border Fence
• Senate Votes for requiring e-verify for go contracts- businesses that win federal contracts to use a government electronic database system to verify that their employees have legal status to work in the U.S.
• Obama Administration expands 287(g) program