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Cannes: 'The Immigrant' stirs emotional response
James Gray's sincere melodrama "The Immigrant" has divided the Cannes Film Festival not for its politics or its audaciousness, but for its sentimentality. Gray's 1920s Ellis Island tale, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Marion Cotillard, has been called the most divisive film at this year's Cannes, where it premiered in competition ...
Steely Cotillard shines in 'The Immigrant'
Academy award-winner Marion Cotillard gave her all and even learned another language to play a Polish woman struggling with the realities of 1920s New York in James Gray's terse offering, "The Immigrant." The gritty drama, which premieres Friday at the Cannes Film Festival and is competing for the Palme d'Or, ...
AP Sources: Obama ok punting gay immigration idea
Two people familiar with the Senate immigration deliberations say the White House has suggested to Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy that it would be best to put off a controversy over gay marriage until a bill goes before the full Senate. President Barack Obama backs the proposal to give equal treatment ...
Senators require fingerprinting at 30 airports
Senate supporters of far-reaching immigration legislation accepted minor changes in public while negotiating over more sweeping alterations in private Monday as they drove toward expected Judiciary Committee approval by mid-week. In a long day of drafting, the panel voted to begin phasing in a requirement for foreigners to undergo fingerprinting ...
Coalition on immigration bill clears first tests
The bipartisan coalition behind a contentious overhaul of immigration laws stuck together on a critical early series of test votes Thursday, turning back challenges from conservative critics as the Senate Judiciary Committee refined legislation to secure the borders and grant eventual citizenship to millions living in the United States illegally. ...
UK gov't agenda focuses on immigration, economy
The message was one of thrift and austerity, but the messenger was opulence incarnate. Britain's Conservative-led government on Wednesday announced a modest program of legislation to tighten immigration rules, curb welfare expenses, encourage business and invest in infrastructure — in a speech read by a monarch on a gilded throne ...
Biden asks clergy to make moral argument on guns
Vice President Joe Biden wants pastors, rabbis and nuns to tell their flocks that enacting gun control is the moral thing to do. But another vote may have to wait until Congress wraps up work on an immigration overhaul. Biden met for two-and-a-half hours Monday with more than a dozen ...
Study sets off immigration bill squabble
A bipartisan Senate immigration bill would cost the government a net $6.3 trillion over the next 50 years to provide benefits for millions of people now living in the U.S. illegally, the Heritage Foundation said in a report Monday, setting off a fierce dispute with fellow conservatives who attacked the ...
Obama: US, Latin America must strengthen economies
President Barack Obama came to Latin America eager to move the region's relationship with the U.S. beyond fighting drugs and organized crime, yet the pervasive problems still trailed him throughout his three-day trip to Mexico and Costa Rica. In the Costa Rican capital Friday, Obama defended his administration's efforts to ...
Obama supports including gays in immigration bill
President Barack Obama says he supports recognizing gay unions in a broad immigration bill pending in Congress but won't say whether he would sign legislation that fails to do so. Obama says that recognizing same-sex relationships in the bill is "the right thing to do." But he says it would ...
US orders new visa checks for arriving students
The U.S. Homeland Security Department ordered border agents to verify that every international student who arrives in the country has a valid student visa, according to an internal memorandum obtained Friday by The Associated Press. The new procedure is the government's first security change directly related to the Boston Marathon ...
Migrants to Obama: Don't deport Mama
Beneath the slogan "Obama, don't deport my Mama," dozens of migrant families deported from the U.S. despite having children born there rallied outside the U.S. Embassy before President Barack Obama's arrival Thursday, demanding passage of a U.S. immigration law they say is vital to keeping families together. Vladimir Mejia Franco, ...
Rubio seeks to boost border language in new bill
Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio says a new immigration bill he helped write needs stronger border security provisions or it will fail in the House and may even have trouble getting through the Senate. Rubio, who is the chief emissary to conservatives on the contentious legislation, said in a radio ...
Obama, Mexican president talk economy, security
Acknowledging uncertainty ahead, President Barack Obama said Thursday the U.S. will cooperate with Mexico in fighting drug-trafficking and organized crime in any way Mexico's government deems appropriate. Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto emphasized that the security relationship must be expanded to focus on trade and commerce. Appearing alongside Pena Nieto ...
Violence mars May Day rally in Seattle
Supporters of immigration reform rallied across the nation on May Day in lively gatherings that were marred by a burst of violence in Seattle, where police fired pepper spray at rock-throwing protesters in clashes that left 17 people arrested. Thousands joined May Day rallies in dozens of cities from Concord, ...
May Day rally turns violent in Seattle
Police used "flash bangs" and pepper spray against some protesters who pelted them with rocks and bottles late Wednesday, as violence erupted during May Day in Seattle. Several dozen protesters, many using bandanas to cover their faces, began clashing with police in downtown Seattle hours after a peaceful immigrant-rights march ...
Immigration debate gives life to annual rallies
Demonstrators demanded an overhaul of immigration laws Wednesday in an annual, nationwide ritual that carried a special sense of urgency as Congress considers sweeping legislation that would bring many of the estimated 11 million people living in the U.S. illegally out of the shadows. Thousands joined May Day rallies in ...
Immigration debate gives life to US rallies
Demonstrators demanded an overhaul of American immigration laws Wednesday in an annual ritual that carried a special sense of urgency as Congress considers sweeping legislation that would bring many of the estimated 11 million people living in the U.S. illegally out of the shadows. Thousands joined May Day rallies in ...
Friends of bombing suspect in immigration court
Lawyers for two men friendly with the Boston Marathon bombing suspect say their clients have been extensively interviewed by federal investigators. Azamat Tazhayakov (AHZ'-maht tuh-ZAYE'-uh-kov) and Dias Kadyrbayev (DYE'-us kad-uhr-BYE-ev), both originally from Kazakhstan, appeared via video for a visa violation hearing in immigration court in Boston on Wednesday. They ...
Immigration reform pushed back in Congress
With a small group of Senators still working on an immigration reform plan, the chairman of a key Senate committee said Wednesday he does not see his panel doing anything on the controversial subject until at least May. "Without legislative language, there is nothing for the Judiciary Committee to consider ...
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