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Mitt Romney's Immigration Dodge

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Reason Magazine - By Jacob Sullum - Nov. 30 (Opinion) - The former Massachusetts governor's immigration stance precludes the possibility of reconciling policy with reality.

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China: Photo Captures Plight of 58 Million ‘Left Behind Children'

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Global Voices - By Oiwan Lam - Nov. 16 (Opinion) - A photo showing a little girl caring for her baby brother in a classroom in rural China has caused an online stir. It reflects the country's long-standing social problem of children who are left behind by their parents going to work in the cities.

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Alabama Immigration Law Backfires, Colbert Says 'I Told You So' (VIDEO)

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Colbert - Oct. 27 (Comedy News) - Stephen Colbert was roundly criticized by politicos last year for his tongue-in-cheek congressional testimony on the plight of illegal farm workers, but now he's getting to revel in his own prescience. After spending a day working on an upstate New York farm as part of the Take Our Jobs project, Colbert testified about his experiences before congress, sarcastically lamenting the backbreaking nature of the work due to most soil being at ground level.

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Homeland Security Texas Homeland Security Strategic Plan - 2010-2015

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

State of Texas - By Rick Perry - Sep. 28 (Statement) - Local and state reinforcement of federal forces has proven to be an extremely effective means of helping fill the capability shortfalls created by severe manpower shortages in key federal agencies like the U.S. Border Patrol. Since 2005, Texas has dedicated over $200 million in federal grants and state funding to help fill the critical gaps, and is committed to providing further support to ensure adequate forces are available to patrol and secure the Texas-Mexico border.

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Kansas GOPer: Let's Shoot Illegal Immigrants Like Pigs

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Talking Points Memo - By Jillian Rayfield - Mar. 16 (Opinion) - Kansas State Rep. Virgil Peck (R) suggested Monday that the best way to deal with the illegal immigration problem may be the same way the state might deal with the problem of "feral hogs" -- by shooting them from a helicopter.

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Guest Worker Visas: The H-1B and L-1

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Department for Professional Employees - Feb. 24 (Advocacy) - The United States guest worker visa programs for specialty occupations are a flashpoint in the immigration debate. Chief among the controversial visa programs are the H-1B and L-1 visas. Critics of the visas point out that the lack of worker protections, lower wages, body shops, and absence of a labor market test result in foreign workers being used to replace qualified U.S. workers. Despite these concerns, supporters of H-1B and L-1 visas seek to increase the number of available visas.

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Keeping the Kettle of Divisiveness on the Boil

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

sensen-no-sen.blogspot.com - By Pbi - Jan. 08 (Opinion) - One day before the Constitution was read aloud in the House, Rep. Steve King sponsored an anti-birthright citizenship bill that flies directly in the face of the 14th Amendment. It has no hope of becoming law, and its true purpose is to keep Americans divided.

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My day in the courtroom of Judge John Roll, who lived and died in Arizona’s climate of hate

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Max Blumenthal - By Max Blumenthal - Jan. 08 (Opinion) - John Roll, the Chief Justice for the US District Court in Arizona, was among those killed this afternoon at a town hall with Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. In February 2009, I testified as a prosecution witness in Roll’s courtroom in Tucson in a politically charged civil trial known as Vicente v. Barnett. I did not know at the time that Roll was living under a 24/7 protective detail because of hundreds of threats against him and his family as well as inflammatory rhetoric directed against him by right-wing elements.

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After GOP Blocks DREAM Act, Where is Immigration Activism Headed?

Thu, 23 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Roberto Lovato,Juan Gonzalez - Dec. 23 (Interview) - After Senate Republicans blocked passage of the DREAM Act, a provision that would grant undocumented young people a chance at citizenship, many immigrant rights advocates are openly questioning the Obama administration’s immigration strategy. Over the past two years, the Obama administration has deported a record number of undocumented immigrants but failed to gain support from Republicans on any immigration reform legislation. We speak with writer Roberto Lovato.

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What Makes Somalis So Different?

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Michael Scott Moore - Dec. 22 () - You’d expect their children would be — on the whole — relieved to live in a stable Western country where even the president is black. But the Somalis who settled in Minneapolis and other selected corners of the U.S. were war refugees, with little money and not many job skills. A recent U.S. census study said Somali immigrants, statistically, were among the “youngest and poorest” newcomers to the U.S., with 82 percent of the community in Minneapolis living below the poverty line.

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2010: The Year In Crazy, Pt. 1

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

This Modern World - By Tom Tomorrow - Dec. 21 (Cartoon) - An incomplete and subjective look at the year in crazy.

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Student, Prisoner Advocate Tam Phan Faces Deportation Order to Vietnam

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Juan Gonzalez - Nov. 18 (Interview) - Tam Phan came to the United States from Vietnam when he was six years old. He later became involved with a gang and spent 17 years in prison. He turned his life around and is now pursuing a masters degree in urban policy and administration at Brooklyn College and is working at the Fortune Society, a nonprofit organization that helps ex-convicts re-enter society. But Tam Phan has been given a final deportation order and his only recourse is a pardon from New York Gov. David Paterson.

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Does Europe Need to Be More American?

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Michael Scott Moore - Nov. 17 () - Europe, the cradle of the nation-state, wasn’t “founded” as a place for poor, tired and huddled masses yearning to breathe free. So might it take lessons from Uncle Sam on welcoming immigrants?

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Welfare of pronghorn still trumps border enforcement

Mon, 08 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

washingtonexaminer.com - Nov. 08 (Opinion) - As I reported back in February, the Interior Department has been using a 1964 environmental law to block the Border Patrol from building communications towers along the southwestern border in Arizona. The towers are part of a virtual fence that would be used to intercept illegal immigrants, drug smugglers and human traffickers w

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House Races to Watch for Immigration Policy

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Independent - By Elise Foley - Nov. 03 (Opinion) - I mentioned earlier a few of the immigration hawks who are likely to win House seats today, but it’s worth running through some of the other congressional races that could impact how immigration policy plays out in the next two years.

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Latino Voters Act as Firewall, Save Democrats from Disaster

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Gabe Gonzalez - Nov. 03 (Opinion) - As Democrats wake up to a huge wave of Republican victories, especially in the U.S. House of Representatives, we can be certain of one thing: without the massive turnout of Latinos who broke heavily for Democrats in key races, the disaster would have been even more severe.

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Swastikas and toxic white powder: The attack on Grijalva's Tucson office

Fri, 22 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Crooks and Liars - By David Neiwert - Oct. 22 (Opinion) - Following up on yesterday's shutdown of Rep. Raul Grijalva's office after a letter containing a toxic substance was mailed to them, we called up Adam Saravana, Grijalva's communications director, and got the inside story. Here's what Adam told us: At about 12:30, as they do every day, the staff checked the mail for the congressional district office. Among the letters was this envelope with -- it just had a mailing label, with a name and address on it, and I can't confirm if it's real or not. Inside the envelope, there were two pieces of paper with swastikas drawn on them. And there was a little plastic baggie with this powder in there. And so they called the police. The police showed up, and then the fire department arrived. And the fire department did a test, and said, 'OK, this is actually toxic. This is for real.' So the congressional office was on lockdown for more than an hour.

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Just Coming Right Out & Saying It

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Talking Points Memo - By Josh Marshall - Oct. 18 (Opinion) - There are a lot of subterranean efforts afoot around the country right now to suppress the vote of various racial minorities. But a group styling itself Latinos for Reform is taking a more straightforward approach: they're running ads in Nevada asking Latino voters simply not to vote.

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Jail immigration checks to continue

Wed, 13 Oct 2010 02:57:18 -0700

DailyNews.com - Oct. 13 - with the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, said the vote will continue to create a rift between law enforcement officials and local communities. Despite complaints about deportations of illegal immigrants who have not been convicted of

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ICE Deports Non-Spanish Speaking American Citizen to Mexico

Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

American Civil Liberties Union - By Sam Ritchie - Oct. 13 (Opinion) - Mark's story is a wake-up call. We hope that ICE and DOJ will implement reforms designed to protect the rights of people with mental disabilities now, before they accidentally put another citizen through the ordeal they caused for Mark Lyttle.

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Which Side Will Get the Blame for the Failure of Immigration Reform? - The Washington Independent

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 17:01:00 -0700

Washington Independent - Oct. 12 - Which Side Will Get the Blame for the Failure of Immigration Reform?The Washington IndependentAdam Serwer has an interesting piece at The American Prospect breaking down the debate over how to reform immigration and ...Dream Act Still a Dream of ObamaYouth Todayall 2 news articles »

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Potential Immigrant Whistleblowers Face Hostile Environment

Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New America Media - By Sarah Damian - Oct. 08 (Opinion) - The role of a whistleblower already brings with it many intense challenges: possible job loss, drop in income, broken relationships, etc. But what if these brave souls were also seen as criminals in the eyes of many? To have a voice at all is a potential risk – let alone speaking out against the system that employs you. This is the conundrum confronting many immigrant workers in the country -- particularly in the agriculture and food industries.

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Lou Dobbs, Nation's Isabel Macdonald Clash Over Illegal Immigration Story On 'Last Word' (VIDEO)

Fri, 08 Oct 2010 11:30:12 -0700

Huffington Post - Oct. 08 - In a lively, lengthy sparring match, refereed by Lawrence O'Donnell, both Dobbs and Macdonald essentially stuck to two basic points. Macdonald said that she had concluded that Dobbs, who has become infamous for his hard-line stance on immigration, "ad

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Obama vs. the GOP on DREAM Act

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 07:24:22 -0700

Washington Independent - Sep. 27 - Obama chided Republicans Saturday for filibustering the defense authorization bill that could have included the DREAM Act and other reform-minded measures like a repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Obama said he hoped Republicans would “come to their senses” on the DREAM Act after the November elections. Which Republicans may come around? In 2007, 12 Republicans [...]

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Waking up to Dream Act realities

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

The Modesto Bee - By Ruben Navarrette Jr. - Sep. 26 (Opinion) - The GOP should have seen the DREAM Act as a softer alternative to what immigration restrictionists insist on calling "amnesty." They should have supported it and defused some of the criticism that they're anti-immigrant.

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