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As tide of illegal immigrants goes home, will US economy suffer?

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - Apr. 09 - The illegal immigrant boom has fizzled; and as Mexican migrants go home, the question is whether it will drain the labor pool and hurt the US economy. ...

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In GOP Race, Geography Has Been Destiny

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Nate Silver - Mar. 11 (Opinion) - Rick Santorum's win in Kansas reinforced a pattern: geography has been the most reliable way to predict results in the Republican primaries.

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Arizona Debate: Conservative Chickens Come Home to Roost

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Rolling Stone - By Matt Taibbi - Feb. 23 (Opinion) - Ron Paul, Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich at the Republican Presidential Debate in Mesa, Arizona. Throughout this entire process, the spectacle of these clowns thrashing each other and continually seizing and then fumbling frontrunner status

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Public high schools woo foreign students

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Apr. 05 - Faced with declining enrollments and shrinking revenues, public school districts from Maine to California are seeking out students from overseas, particularly China, to attend their high schools. ...

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Girl, 4, a U.S. Citizen, Is Deported to Guatemala

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:39:36 -0700

New York Times - Mar. 22 -

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Arizona Flinches on Immigration

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 20:40:12 -0700

New York Times - Mar. 21 (Opinion) - States weighing immigration crackdowns should take note of Arizona’s reversal.

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Moving past right-wing rhetoric

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Joe Scarborough - Jan. 18 (Opinion) - Now that the right has proved to the world that it was wronged, this would be a good time to prevent the next tragedy from destroying its political momentum. Despite what we eventually learned about the shooter in Tucson, should the right have really been so shocked that many feared a political connection between the heated rhetoric of 2010 and the shooting of Giffords?

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Nine days since Tucson

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

MSNBC - By Keith Olbermann - Jan. 17 (Opinion) - Finally tonight, as promised, a Special Comment on the nine days since Tucson. That awful night, I said this: We need to put the guns down. Just as importantly we need to put the gun metaphors away and permanently. Left, right, middle — politicians and citizens — sane and insane. This age in which this country would accept "targeting" of political opponents and putting bullseyes over their faces, and of the dangerous blurring between political rallies and gun shows, ended.

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Violence and threats have no place in democracy

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

MSNBC - By Keith Olbermann - Jan. 17 (Opinion) - In the aftermath of the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., Countdown’s Keith Olbermann reminds Americans that “violence, or the threat of violence, has no place in our democracy.”

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The Arizona shooting and the first amendment

Sun, 16 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Darin Miller - Jan. 16 (Opinion) - Amid the controversy about 'vitriolic rhetoric', let's remember that free speech is a foundational principle of American democracy

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Tears and Rain

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Atlantic Monthly - By Michael Chabon - Jan. 13 (Opinion) - Having struggled all the way through to make my own sense of sorrow and confusion congruent with what I saw happening in Tucson, having found that point of tangency at the rueful and admonitory heart, the father's heart, of the speech, I fell all the way out again, right at the end. "If there are rain puddles in heaven," the president said, evoking the words of an unnamed contributor to an album of photos of babies born on 9/11, "Christina is jumping in them today."

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Intern: 'I Ran Toward The Congresswoman'

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

NPR - By Daniel Hernandez - Jan. 10 (Comment) - I came in at about 9:15 and I was assigned to help staff this event as an intern. I helped set up. At about 10 a.m. the event started. A few minutes later we heard gunshots. I then ran toward the congresswoman and those who I assumed would likely be injured.

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Climate of Hate

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Jan. 10 (Opinion) - When you heard the terrible news from Arizona, were you completely surprised? Or were you, at some level, expecting something like this atrocity to happen?

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A Right to Bear Glocks?

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By By GAIL COLLINS - Jan. 10 (Opinion) - Let’s find a way to accommodate the desire for access to firearms with sane regulation of weapons that make it easiest for crazy people to create mass slaughter.

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Tombstone Politics

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By By TIMOTHY EGAN - Jan. 10 (Opinion) - one discussion goes to the first two amendments of the constitution--a clause that guarantees even crazy people the right to say horrible things, and another one that seems to give those same crazy people the right to won a lethal weapon.

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The awesome stupidity of the calls to tamp down political speech in the wake of the Giffords shooting.

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Slate - By Jack Shafer - Jan. 09 (Opinion) - The attempted assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and the killing of six innocents outside a Tucson Safeway has bolstered the ongoing argument that when speaking of things political, we should all avoid using inflammatory rhetoric and violence.

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Rep. Giffords Remains in Critical Condition

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 15:31:00 -0800

CBS News - Jan. 09 - (CBS/AP) TUCSON - U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was in critical condition Sunday after being shot in the head during a shooting rampage in Tucson. Doctors were optimistic about Giffords surviving as she was responding to commands from doctors, reports CBS

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Mercury News editorial: Motive behind Arizona immigration law? Profit

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

San Jose Mercury News - Nov. 02 (Opinion) - coming across the border and getting caught are going to have to be detained and "... there's going to be enhanced opportunities for what we do." Many voters today will be motivated by anger at politicians, whether it's over too much spending

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Appeals court to consider states' role in immigration enforcement in appeal by Ariz. governor

Sat, 30 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Oct. 30 - PHOENIX - Arizona's tough and controversial new immigration law will get its day before a San Francisco appeals court Monday, with the central issue being just what role state and local authorities can play in confronting those who cross the border

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Ninth Circuit will hear arguments on Arizona's immigration Law on Nov. 1

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

San Francisco Chronicle - By Laura Sanchez - Oct. 29 (Opinion) - As the San Francisco-based Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals prepares to hear oral arguments on Monday for United States vs. State of Arizona, Latinos in California will be watching closely.

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The income gap

Wed, 06 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - By Greg Torres, Andrew Sum - Oct. 06 (Opinion) - THE TERM “middle class’’ is more than an economic distinction. It’s also an appreciation for balance and equity and a national yearning for a strong, cohesive society. Yet a polarizing income gap in Massachusetts and elsewhere is threatening both the class and the concept.

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Officials wary as militia groups tout freelance desert patrols

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Arizona Republic - By Lindsey Collom - Sep. 26 - Officials wary as militia groups tout freelance desert patrolsAZ Central.comThese days, however, posted signs warn that visiting the area may come at a cost: "Travel caution - smuggling and illegal immigration may be encountered in ...and more??

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Push for Dream Act gets derailed

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 01:35:22 -0700

Arizona Republic - By Erin Kelly - Sep. 22 - Another attempt has failed to advance legislation that would let some children of illegal immigrants become legal residents.

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Immigration law in Arizona is no model for Texas

Sun, 19 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Houston Chronicle - By Charles C. Foster - Sep. 19 (Opinion) - Senate Bill 1070 enacted by the Arizona state Legislature has become a focal point of the national debate on immigration. Much of the attention has rightfully been focused on concerns about both border enforcement and racial profiling. Yet in spite of honest efforts to avoid racial profiling, Hispanics, including many Americans, are far more likely to be subject to questioning about their immigration status than others. In response, the U.S. Department of Justice has successfully intervened and convinced U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton to strike down some of the more controversial provisions. But a basic question remains. Should the Arizona law be a model for Texas and other states? After all, this has grown to be a major domestic issue in this year's congressional elections. As a result, there is a critical need for an honest debate about immigration policy.

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Shurtleff: Dump immigration proposal

Sat, 18 Sep 2010 05:08:01 -0700

Salt Lake Tribune - Sep. 18 - Attorney General Mark Shurtleff said Friday at a public forum that the proposed bill by Rep. Stephen Sandstrom targeting illegal immigration “can’t be fixed” entirely to comply with the U.S. Constitution and urged lawmakers to avoid Arizona’s legal

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