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Do You Want the Good News First?

Sat, 19 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Thomas L. Friedman - May. 19 (Opinion) - I’ve spent the last week traveling to two of America’s greatest innovation hubs — Silicon Valley and Seattle — and the trip left me feeling a combination of exhilaration and dread. The excitement comes from not only seeing the stunning amount of innovation emerging from the ground up, but from seeing the new tools coming on stream that are, as Amazon.com’s founder, Jeff Bezos, put it to me, “eliminating all the gatekeepers” — making it easier and cheaper than ever to publish your own book, start your own company and chase your own dream. Never have individuals been more empowered, and we’re still just at the start of this trend.

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With unemployment still high, H1-B visa requests rise again

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By Jon Talton - Apr. 10 (Opinion) - Nearly every week, I get an email from a skilled American worker who can't find work in the technology industries. Now comes a report, via the Wall Street Journal, that the government has received 25,600 petitions for H-1B skilled-worker visas since April 2. That's a rate twice as high as that for all of April last year.

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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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Administration names official advocate for illegal immigrants

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:16:00 -0800

Washington Times - Feb. 07 - The Obama administration on Tuesday announced a new "public advocate" charged with listening to immigrants' concerns about its law enforcement policies — but Republicans said the position amounts to an official mouthpiece for illegal immigrants being dep

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Paul: Immigration not solved by barbed wire, guns - The Associated Press

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:02:57 -0800

Associated Press - Feb. 02 - The Associated PressPaul: Immigration not solved by barbed wire, gunsThe Associated PressLAS VEGAS (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul outlined his views on immigration Wednesday, saying he favors a compassionate policy that doesn't rely on "barbed-wire fences and guns on our border." Paul spoke to several dozen people ...and more »

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Latinos unhappy with President Obama's deportation policy, poll finds

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By David Lauter, Washington Bureau - Dec. 29 (Opinion) - The Obama administration has presided over a record number of deportations of illegal immigrants, and 59% of Latinos disapprove. But Obama is still favored over potential GOP nominees.Latinos by a 2-1 margin disapprove of how President Obama is handling deportations of illegal residents, but by an even larger margin, Latino voters favor him over Mitt Romney, according to a new survey by the Pew Hispanic Center.

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Op-Ed Columnist: The Good Newt

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Bill Keller - Dec. 11 (Opinion) - At least on one issue — immigration — Newt Gingrich gets it.

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Expanded Visa Law Would Give U.S. World’s Tired, Poor Technologists: View

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:13:00 -0800

Bloomberg - Dec. 01 - Congress works. Or so it seemed for a day this week when the House of Representatives voted 389 to 15 to ease restrictions on the entry of highly skilled immigrants to the U.S. The Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2011 was sponsored by conser

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Latino evangelicals challenge Alabama brethren on immigration

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 21:28:00 -0800

CNN - Nov. 13 - By Gustavo Valdes , CNN Birmingham, Alabama (CNN) - When the Alabama legislature approved what is considered the nation's toughest anti-illegal immigration law, much of the state's religious community was quick to condemn it. The Roman Catholic, Episcopa

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France, Islam and the banlieues: a debate on the place of Islam and class in the suburbs

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Michèle Tribalat, Gérard Mauger - Nov. 01 (Opinion) - In an effort to allay concerns about Islam in France, policymakers and analysts have either tried to play down its importance or sought to blend it into the landscape. Islam is often portrayed as an integral part of French history: its presence simply follows on from ancient history. The basis for this argument is shaky, for it refers to an era when Christendom – not yet referred to as the west – was in retreat, driven back by the force of Islamic arms.

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Unitarians are far from wishy-washy

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Rose McDonagh - Sep. 30 (Opinion) - In Springfield Missouri, The First Unitarian Universalist Church flies a rainbow flag to represent equality. "Every few months our flag is stolen, we have had graffiti written on our sidewalk and steps, and outdoor lights broken," Linda, the church administrator, tells me in an email. Sometimes, those angry at the congregation's stance on social issues have taken the bizarre step of turning up at the church and placing fake money in the collection plate scrawled with racist or homophobic notes. "I have a wallet full of them."

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Companies Use Immigration Crackdown to Turn a Profit - New York Times

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 21:37:24 -0700

New York Times - Sep. 28 - New York TimesCompanies Use Immigration Crackdown to Turn a ProfitNew York TimesIt was just a small part of a pattern on three continents where a handful of multinational security companies have been turning crackdowns on immigration into a growing global industry. Especially in Britain, the United States and Australia, ...and more »

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Transcript – Fox News-Google GOP Presidential debate

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Fox News - By Bret Baier - Sep. 22 (Speech) - This is a rush transcript from the Fox News-Google GOP Presidential debate on September 22, 2011 at the Orlando Convention Center in Orlando, Fla. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.

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The Widening Dragnet

Sun, 14 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - Aug. 14 (Opinion) - The Obama administration has decided to stick with Secure Communities, the discredited but rapidly growing immigration-enforcement program that has helped it deport a million people in the last two and a half years. And not only stick with it, ...and more »

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Isolated, Vulnerable And Broke

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Douglas S. Massey - Aug. 05 (Opinion) - ACCORDING to a new study by the Pew Research Center, Hispanic families saw the largest decline in wealth of any racial or ethnic group in the country during the latter half of the last decade: from 2005 to 2009, their median wealth fell by an astounding 66 percent. The reason? The implosion of the housing market, where Hispanic families had invested much of their wealth. But that’s only the latest chapter in a much longer story. Over the past two decades Hispanics have moved from the middle of the socioeconomic hierarchy, between blacks and whites, to a position below both. On virtually every indicator of socioeconomic welfare, Hispanics fell relative to blacks.

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Civil rights groups sue challenging Alabama anti-illegal immigrant law - CNN International

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:36:04 -0700

CNN - Jul. 08 - Fox NewsCivil rights groups sue challenging Alabama anti-illegal immigrant lawCNN InternationalRobert Bentley signs Alabama's immigration legislation June 9. The law is set to take effect in September. (CNN) -- Several prominent civil rights groups filed a class action lawsuit Friday challenging Alabama's new anti-illegal immigration law, ...Lawsuit to block Ala immigration lawPoliticoCivil Rights Group Says It Sued to Block New Alabama Immigration StatuteBloombergAdvocacy Groups Sue to Block Alabama Immigration LawWall Street Journal (blog)WBXH -The Associated Press -WHNTall 382 news articles »

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Illegal Immigrant: 'I Represent How Broken the Immigration System Is'

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

ABC News - By EVAN HARRIS, Christiane Amanpour, Jose Vargas - Jul. 03 (Interview) - Despite being known as a nation of immigrants, American politicians are locked in a longstanding stalemate over how to best solve the country's immigration problems – a debate also taken up by a panel on ABC News' "This Week with Christiane Amanpour" which included among others, a self-admitted illegal immigrant. "In many ways, I represent … just how broken the immigration system is," former Washington Post reporter Jose Vargas said on "This Week" of his decision to publish an account of his illegal status. "In many ways the goal was to expose just how incredibly dysfunctional and irrational the whole system is and has been for quite some time."

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US Diversity Visa Lottery Programming Problem

Tue, 17 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

IEEE Spectrum - By Robert Charette - May. 17 (Opinion) - Last Friday, the US Department of State announced that the results of the 2012 Diversity Lottery were no longer valid. A computer programming error had skewed the results to those registering for the lottery early, instead of selecting applicants randomly from across the full thirty-day registration period, the State Department stated on its Diversity Lottery web site. The Diversity Lottery is part of the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program...

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Pope calls on Italians to welcome immigrants

Mon, 09 May 2011 01:08:06 -0700

Daily Telegraph - May. 09 - Pope Benedict XVI has urged Italy to welcome immigrants fleeing to its shores, invoking the historic role of Venice and the once influential church in nearby Aquileia as a cultural bridges during his two-day visit to northern Italy.

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A Certificate of Embarrassment

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - Apr. 28 (Editorial) - President Obama is finally forced to react to a preposterous political claim about his birth.

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

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

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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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Peter King's modern-day witch hunt

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Eugene Robinson - Mar. 11 (Opinion) - "There is nothing radical or un-American in holding these hearings," Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) claimed Thursday as he launched his McCarthyite probe of American Muslims. He could not have been more wrong. If King is looking for threats to our freedoms and values, a mirror would be the place to start.

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The 'Utah Way' toward immigration reform

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Lee Hockstader - Mar. 11 (Editorial) - Utah, where Republicans outnumber Democrats by better than three to one in the state legislature, has passed the nation's most liberal - and most reality-based - policy on illegal immigration. And the Republican governor is expected to sign it.

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Why the DREAM Act needs its next act

Thu, 30 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - By Daniel Altschuler - Dec. 30 (Opinion) - 2010 began with promise for advocates of immigration reform, but it ended with a stark reminder of the obstacles they face.

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