Immigration and Citizenship

Washington, D.C. – In an op-ed in The Packer, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) explains how the Agricultural Guestworker Act provides America’s farmers and ranchers access to a stable workforce by creating a new, workable guestworker program. The AG Act is also contained in the Securing America’s FutureAct (H.R.

Washington, D.C. – In a joint letter to the Secretary of Homeland Security, Senate and House Judiciary Committee chairmen Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and former Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) urged the swift implementation of regulations that would drastically curtail the amount of fraud and abuse that has become common in the EB-5 regional center program. “As we have noted several times since the publication of these proposed regulations, they would, if finalized, dramatically reform the EB-5 program and re-align t

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) recently sat down with AgDay TV host Clinton Griffiths to discuss his bill, the Agricultural Guestworker Act. This bill creates a new, workable agricultural guestworker program for America’s farmers and ranchers and is also contained in the Securing America’s FutureAct (H.R.

Washington, D.C. – Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the chairmen of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, today made the following statement on the failure of congress to reform the deeply flawed and fraud-ridden EB-5 Visa Regional Center program. “We, as chairmen of the Senate and House committees of jurisdiction, have been working in good faith with stakeholders for years on a compromise solution to fix the corrupt and fraud-ridden EB-5 regional center program.

Washington, D.C. - House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) was joined at a press conference by conservative Hispanic leaders, who announced their support for the Securing America’s Future Act (H.R.

Washington, D.C.  – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and conservative Hispanic leaders will hold a press conference on TUESDAY at 12:30PM ET on the Securing America’s Future Act (H.R. 4760).

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) today issued the statement below on the Department of Justice’s lawsuit against California’s sanctuary laws: “Attorney General Sessions has made the right decision to sue California for its sanctuary laws. Sanctuary laws are designed to hamper federal immigration enforcement and impede the longstanding cooperation that U.S.

The American Farm Bureau Federation released the following statement on the inclusion of the Agricultural Guestworker Act in the Securing America’s Future Act (H.R. 4760)