{"id":563,"date":"2012-11-14T12:24:18","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T12:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-meets-bruce-morrison-to-discuss-undocumented-irish-and-immigration-reform\/"},"modified":"2012-11-14T12:24:18","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T12:24:18","slug":"crowe-meets-bruce-morrison-to-discuss-undocumented-irish-and-immigration-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-meets-bruce-morrison-to-discuss-undocumented-irish-and-immigration-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowe meets Bruce Morrison to discuss undocumented Irish and immigration reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Crowe meets Bruce Morrison to discuss\u00a0undocumented Irish and immigration reform<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sinn F\u00e9in spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Trade and Diaspora, Se\u00e1n  Crowe TD, met former American Congressman and long-time Irish-American  lobbyist Bruce Morrison on Tuesday evening to discuss the situation of  the illegal Irish in American and future immigration reform for Irish  people.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce Morrison was briefing an all-party joint Oireachtas  meeting in Leinster House. The former Congressman has lobbied on  immigration reform for decades, particularly focusing on Irish-American  issues. He also played a very active role in the Irish peace process.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the briefing Deputy Crowe said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to thank Bruce for visiting Leinster House today and briefing this all-party meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow that the American Presidential elections are over there are  renewed prospects that legislation can be passed which will hopefully  help legalise the status of immigrants in America who have overstayed  their visa. Any legislation that is passed on this issue will of course  benefit the many Irish people who are living in America illegally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is also the issue of legislation which will reform immigration  laws for Irish citizens who want to work and live in America in the  future. Bruce spoke at length about how legislation for the so-called  E-3 B Visa is progressing. The E-3 B Visa, if created, would make 10,500  two-year American work visas available to Irish citizens every year.  The E-3 B Visa can also be renewed when they run out for a further two  years and they can be renewed an unlimited amount of times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile at the briefing I suggested that we form an all-party joint  Oireachtas group on Irish immigration reform in America. This group  would work with Irish-American organisation to lobby the American  Government on legalising illegal immigrants and the E-3 B Visa. This  proposal was welcomed by other TDs and Senators at the meeting and we  will work together to form the group as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crowe meets Bruce Morrison to discuss\u00a0undocumented Irish and immigration reform Sinn F\u00e9in spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Trade and Diaspora, Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, met former American Congressman and long-time Irish-American lobbyist Bruce Morrison on Tuesday evening to discuss the situation of the illegal Irish in American and future immigration reform for Irish people. Bruce Morrison was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}