Kenyans in Boston praise President Obama for Immigration Executive Order
The Kenyan community in Boston appreciates the new immigration reform measure by US president, Barack Obama.
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Senator Ted Cruz talks with reporters after the Senate voted on the budget. Photograph: Lauren Victoria Burke/AP
The $1.1tn US budget finally cleared Congress on Saturday night after hours of last-minute legislative bargaining that secured a number of unexpected wins for Democrats but failed to stop a controversial plan to help Wall Street banks.
The so-called cromnibus a 1,600-page omnibus spending bill that funds most of government until next September passed in the Senate by 56 to 40 votes. It also postpones a battle over Barack Obamas immigration reform until March with a separate three-month continuing resolution to fund the Department for Homeland Security.
But a last-ditch effort by conservative senator Ted Cruz to take more immediate action on immigration served to delay the final vote and created a surprise window for Democrats to rush through a series of previously-stalled personnel confirmations.
Cruz scuppered the original plan agreed with his partys leadership to hold the cromnibus vote on Friday night by insisting there be an opportunity to vote on whether the presidents executive action on immigration was unconstitutional.
This failed, voted down by 22 votes to 74, but the resulting delay allowed outgoing Senate majority leader Harry Reid to use the unexpected Saturday session to hold a 10-hour voting marathon and confirm 24 nominations for vacant judicial posts and government jobs.
In his final few hours in charge of the Senate, a visibly-delighted Reid also filed procedural motions on a number of even more controversial Obama nominations, including Dr Vivek Murthy, who the Republicans have long opposed as surgeon general due to his views in favour of gun control. These are now likely to be voted through in short final session on Monday.
Cruzs token protest against immigration reform irritated a number of moderate Republicans, such as Senator Lindsey Graham who said he had given Democrats an unnecessary victory on the nominations.
Nevertheless, the protest by rightwing Republicans against the elements of the cromnibus they oppose was more visible than similar concern among Democrats about other clauses, such as the support for Wall Street.
In stark contrast to Democrats in the House of Representatives, who nearly derailed the budget entirely on Thursday by voting unanimously against proceeding to a budget vote and had to be cajoled by the White House into passing it eventually, Senate Democrats were in more muted mood.
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Jose Antonio Vargas' Documented will be released in select New York and Los Angeles theaters prior to its television broadcast on CNN, The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively. The move will qualify the film for Oscar consideration.
The documentary -- which was written, produced and directed by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist -- centers on Vargas' experience as an undocumented immigrant and a crusader for immigration reform. It will be released theatrically and digitally by his nonprofit Define American media and culture campaign, along with BOND/360, in New York at the Village East Cinema on May 2 and in Los Angeles at the Landmark Regent on May 9. It will then air on CNN in the summer.
THR is also exclusively debuting the film's official trailer. (See above.)
Much of Documented -- the executive producers of which include Napster co-founder Sean Parker, The Hangover's Scott Budnick and The Joy Luck Club's Janet Yang -- covers Vargas' roller coaster of a journey after he publicly revealed his immigration status in a New York Times Magazine piece in June 2011, including his efforts to reunite with his mother, whom he had not seen in over 20 years.
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CNN Films acquired the North American rights to Documented back in November. CNN has invested heavily in its CNN Films division of late. Last fall, it enjoyed a huge ratings success with Blackfish, another Oscar-contending doc that it broadcast. It has also aired the docs Our Nixon and Sole Survivor and handled both the theatrical and television release of Pandora's Promise. A planned CNN Films doc about Hillary Clinton was canceled in September following an outcry from both Democrats and Republicans.
Vargas told THR, "As a newcomer to America who learned to 'speak American' by watching movies, I firmly believe that to change the politics of immigration and citizenship, we must change culture -- the way we portray undocumented people like me and our role in society. I am thrilled to be working with CNN, Tugg and BOND/360 to share my story on screens around the country and remind people that when we talk about immigration, we are talking about real people and their families."
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Nevada DREAMer Astrid Silva Testifies On Immigration Reform
Astrid Silva testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the need to pass comprehensive immigration reform. Read more: http://www.reid.senate.gov/press_releases/2014-10-12-reid-meets-with-.
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Libs Say Tax Gas More - Majority Oppose Immigration Reform
Today Brian Lovig Talks about Libs Say Tax Gas More - Majority Oppose Immigration Reform Cheap Oil Arrives So Democrat Rep Wants to Boost Fuel Taxes Gasoline prices are in free fall. And...
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