Immigration Reform 2014: President Obama Reportedly Considering Green Card Change

*Even though media attention has been on the Middle East and Ferguson, the immigration issue hasn’t gone away. It seems President Obama may take a step on immigration, to help industry fill it’s need for skilled workers. VL

By CHSmith, Latino Post

A change in how green cards are handled in the United States for immigrants could come as soon as September, as public pressure is mounting for President Barack Obama to take executive action on the stalled immigration overhaul that’s stuck in Congress. The Obama administration has been part of listening sessions with business groups and relatives of immigrants in the past few months, and those talks have led to some tentative ideas about how to handle immigration going forward.

The recent move to adjust how legal immigrants are allowed to stay in the U.S. — however, it is led by the tech industry which is interested in hiring brain power from outside the Unite States.

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