Senate Judiciary chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) on Tuesday reluctantly withheld an amendment to the comprehensive immigration bill that would protect binational same-sex couples. “And I say this with a heavy heart,” Leahy said after withholding the amendment. “You know, I look at what my state went through on this issue,…
House vote to boost sci-tech visas lays bare political rifts on immigration House passage of an immigration bill that swaps a lottery designed to diversity America’s immigrant population for visas targeted to students advanced in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) lays bare a yawning divide between Democrats and Republicans…