According to the ACLU, "millions of aspiring Americans apply to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) each year. But under a previously unknown national security program known as the “Controlled Application Review and Resolution Program” (CARRP), the government excludes many applicants from Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim and South Asian communities from these opportunities by delaying and denying their applications without legal authority."

To view the ACLU's report, use the following link: http://www.aclusocal.org/CARRP/

Foreign-born residents, who now account for one in eight Americans, are boosting job growth, raising home prices and more broadly helping to revive thousands of economically distressed communities, according to a new report by the Americas Society/Council of the Americas and the Partnership for a New American Economy.

Read more about this and other recent studies on the benefits of immigration here: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505143_162-57602552/can-immigration-speed-the-economic-recovery/

As expected, Comprehensive Immigration Reform has been moved to the back of the line on Congress's agenda.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/09/us/politics/immigration-reform-falls-to-the-back-of-the-line.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

How long it will be until there is movement again is anyone's gues...

With congress returning from summer recess, the upcoming debate and vote on the Syrian conflict is being viewed as a major distraction from meaningful debate on improving the US immigration system. 

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/04/us-usa-immigration-syria-idUSBRE98317720130904

Based on the GOP House of Representative's current stance it looks like any comprehensive changes in existing law are years away not months away. Whether smaller piecemeal laws, such as mandatory E-Verify, will be passed in the interim remains to be seen.