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Flipping Through DNC Playbook on Romney

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

FactCheck - By Eugene Kiely, Lori Robertson, Robert Farley, Brooks Jackson, D’Angelo Gore, Scott Blackburn, Lalita Clozel - Dec. 01 (Fact Check) - The Democratic National Committee casts Mitt Romney as an untrustworthy flip-flopper in a lengthy Web video, but pads a long list of examples with some falsehoods and distortions. It's true that Romney has changed or modified his position on some major issues -- including abortion, a federal assault weapons ban and Reaganomics, as the DNC says. But the video strains the truth ... More >>

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Report: Thousands of U.S.-Born Kids Languish in Foster Care As Immigrant Parents Detained, Deported

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez - Nov. 10 (Special Report) - A new report looks at how thousands of U.S.-born children are being sent to foster care when their non-U.S. citizen parents are detained or deported. The Applied Research Center investigation, "Shattered Families: The Perilous Intersection of Immigration Enforcement and the Child Welfare System,” finds there are at least 5,100 children currently living in foster care — who are prevented from uniting with their detained or deported parents. If nothing changes, researchers found some 15,000 more children may end up in foster care in the next five years. We speak with Seth Freed Wessler, the principal investigator of the report. [Transcript to come. Check back soon.]

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What Do Marco Rubio, Immigrants For Sale, And A Sh_t-Ton Of Cash Have In Common?

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

MoveOn - By MoveOn productions - Oct. 22 (News Report) - You’re about to find out. Watch:

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H-1B Workers’ Use of Social Security Numbers

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

SSA - Oct. 18 (Special Report) - Based on the results of our review, we estimate about 7,131 (18 percent) of the 38,546 H-1B workers to whom the Social Security Administration (SSA) assigned an SSN in 2007 may have used their SSNs for purposes other than to work for their approved employer. This estimate includes about 4,433 (11 percent) H-1B workers who had posted wages during our audit period from an employer other than their DHS-approved employer. This estimate also includes about 2,698 (7 percent) H-1B workers who had no posted wages from 2007 through 2009.

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Fanciful ‘Facts’ At Fox News Debate

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

FactCheck - By Brooks Jackson - Sep. 24 (Fact Check) - Nine Republican presidential candidates debated for two hours in Orlando, Fla., and they served up more exaggerations and falsehoods — about Obama, each other, and even Thomas Jefferson. Perry claimed Romney supports Obama’s Race to the Top education initiative. In fact, while Romney has praised some of the program’s … More >>

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Fox News Allows Hate Group to Participate in GOP Debate

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - Sep. 23 (News Report) - Almost 20,000 questions were submitted for Thursday night’s Republican presidential debate, but Fox News picked the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), a designated hate group, to ask the first question on immigration.

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Border Patrol Agent Staffing By Fiscal Year

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

United States Border Patrol - Sep. 22 (Research) - Statistics show a steady increase in border patrol staffing in the past 20 years.

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FactChecking the Reagan Debate

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

FactCheck - By Robert Farley, Brooks Jackson, Lori Robertson, D'Angelo Gore, Eugene Kiely - Sep. 08 (Fact Check) - The GOP candidates took some liberties when discussing jobs, Social Security, immigration, health care and other issues during the presidential debate at the Ronald Reagan Library: Perry exaggerated when he called Social Security a "Ponzi scheme" that won't be there for "kids that are 25 or 30 years old today." Social Security's finances — while troubled — are an open book, not an investment scam, and the program could still support 74 percent of promised benefits in 2085.

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Invisible millions pay price of statelessness

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

MSN.com - Aug. 24 (Investigative Report) - Rejected by the countries they call home and denied the most basic of rights, stateless people live in a shadowy limbo — in the words of one, like being "between the earth and the sky." ...

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Undocumented Student Fanny Martinez Arrested Protesting Controversial Secure Communities Program

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman; Juan Gonzalez - Aug. 18 (News Report) - Last night in Chicago, the controversy over the immigration enforcement program called Secure Communities reached a dramatic standoff when six undocumented students were arrested protesting a meeting to discuss the program. Wearing T-shirts that said "Undocumented and Unafraid," the students joined about 300 people in walking out of the meeting. Once outside, they blocked an expressway on-ramp in an act of civil disobedience. Protests against Secure Communities were also held earlier this week in Houston, Boston, Miami, Atlanta and Charlotte. We go to Chicago to speak with Fanny Martinez, a 23-year-old graduate student in Chicago, one of those arrested at the meeting. She was released from jail shortly before we went to broadcast. [includes rush transcript]

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Should U.S. End Secure Communities? Sheriff Adrian Garcia Debates Immigrant Advocate Chris Newman

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Juan Gonzalez, Amy Goodman - Aug. 18 (News Analysis) - Many are criticizing the Obama administration for unilaterally pushing ahead with a controversial federal immigration enforcement policy called Secure Communities that requires local police to forward fingerprints of every person they arrest to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. In recent months, the governors of Illinois, Massachusetts and New York announced they are pulling out of the program, but now officials from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) say it is mandatory. ICE has also created a task force to study possible reforms. We host a debate on Secure Communities program with Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia, who helped ICE begin Secure Communities as a pilot program in Texas and is a member of the Secure Communities Task Force, and Chris Newman, legal director for the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, one of the immigrant rights groups spearheading national organizing efforts against Secure Communities. [includes rush transcript]

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The disturbing copy-and-paste habits of Russell Pearce

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Jeff Biggers - Aug. 03 (News) - The self-proclaimed architect of Arizona's "papers please" immigration law has regularly borrowed significant portions of text from the writings of hard-line white nationalists, fringe anti-immigrant activists, and others whose views far fall outside the mainstream.

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No Thanks for Everything

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

hd.net - By Dan Rather - Jun. 14 (Investigative Report) - With the unemployment rate over nine percent, why are lawmakers, lobbyists and pundits across the political spectrum clamoring to increase the flow of high-skilled guest workers from overseas? Business advocates say U.S. companies need the world’s “best and the brightest” in order to out-innovate global competitors and to create new jobs. Critics claim the federal guest worker visa programs are rife with abusive practices and that there’s no shortage of the best and brightest talent right here – especially now with more than 20 million Americans jobless or underemployed.

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Rep. Luis Gutierrez: Obama Has Discretionary Authority to Advance DREAM Act, Humane Immigration Reform

Thu, 12 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Juan Gonzalez - May. 12 (News Analysis) - Senate Democrats have reintroduced the DREAM Act for the first time since Republicans blocked its passage late last year. Under the measure, immigrant youth would obtain permanent residency with a chance for citizenship, provided they attend college for at least two years or enlist in the U.S. military. The move comes one day after President Obama delivered a major address on immigration reform. We speak to Democratic Rep. Luis Gutierrez of Illinois, chair of the Immigration Taskforce of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.

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Obama Calls for Immigration Reform Amidst Record Levels of Deportations

Wed, 11 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - May. 11 (News Analysis) - On Tuesday, President Obama visited the U.S.-Mexico border for the first time since his election in 2008 to deliver a major policy speech on comprehensive immigration reform. Meanwhile, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn and 38 New York state lawmakers have asked to withdraw from Obama’s flagship immigration enforcement program, Secure Communities, which has led to a record number of deportations. We get reaction from Ali Noorani, executive director of the National Immigration Forum, and Sunita Patel, staff attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights.

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Obama says border patrol has doubled the number of agents since 2004

Tue, 10 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

PolitiFact - May. 10 (Fact Check) - In a speech on immigration reform in El Paso, Texas, President Barack Obama boasted about an unprecedented number of border security agents along the U.S. border with Mexico, but he said critics probably still won't be satisfied. "Under Secretary Napolitano’s leadership, we have strengthened border security beyond what many believed was possible," Obama said in his May 10, 2011, speech. "They wanted more agents on the border. Well, we now have more boots on the ground on the southwest border than at any time in our history. The Border Patrol has 20,000 agents –- more than twice as many as there were in 2004, a buildup that began under President Bush and that we have continued." Obama said that commitment is beyond what was requested by some Republicans "who said they supported broader reform as long as we got serious about enforcement." "I suspect there will be those who will try to move the goal posts one more time," Obama said. "They’ll say we need to triple the border patrol. Or quadruple the border patrol."

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Legislator's comment on illegal immigration criticized

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

LJWorld - By Scott Rothschild - Mar. 15 (News) - A legislator said Monday it might be a good idea to control illegal immigration the way the feral hog population has been controlled: with gunmen shooting from helicopters.

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Homeland Security Law Called Hazardous for Victims

Sat, 26 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Women's eNews - By Amy Lieberman - Feb. 26 (News) - "The man says, 'Look she scratched me, I didn't do anything.' So the woman gets arrested and if undocumented, she gets reported to ICE," Neugebaeur said. "How can I as a lawyer say now in good conscience, free and clear, 'Don't worry about anything, call the police,' because if you call the police, you can be reported to immigration services."

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U.S. Hate Groups Top 1,000

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Southern Poverty Law Center - Feb. 23 (Investigative Report) - The number of active hate groups in the United States topped 1,000 for the first time and the antigovernment “Patriot” movement expanded dramatically for the second straight year as the radical right showed continued explosive growth in 2010.

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Security Breach

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Florida Center for Investigative Reporting - By Thomas Francis - Jan. 31 (Investigative Report) - Secure Communities, a federal immigration-enforcement program designed to identify and deport violent illegal immigrants, has increasingly targeted and deported undocumented immigrants with no criminal backgrounds.

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Bogus Hackspeak Alert: Yes, 'One Size Fits All'

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Kausfiles - By Mickey Kaus - Jan. 25 (News Analysis) - You know that expensive "virtual" border fence the Obama administration recently cancelled? It actually worked, acording to Janice Kephart of the Center for Immigration Studies. There were big problems with the prototype, but they fixed them. No wonder it got cancelled!

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SPLC Report: Nativist Laws Cost Communities Millions, Inflame Racial Tension

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Southern Poverty Law Center - Jan. 24 (Investigative Report) - Harsh anti-immigrant laws enacted in communities across the country – promoted by national nativist organizations that want to severely limit immigration – have burdened taxpayers with millions in legal expenses, inflamed racial tensions and devastated businesses, according to a report issued today by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).

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College Admissions and Affirmative Action: In Texas it's Still Legal

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

good.is - By Liz Dwyer - Jan. 21 (News) - The affirmative action debate is back in the hot seat after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans upheld the use of race as an admissions factor at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Legislators Work with Anti-Immigrant Hate Group to Gut 14th Amendment | Hatewatch

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Southern Poverty Law Center - Jan. 04 (News Analysis) - SLLI is often described as the legislative arm of FAIR, which is apt given the group says on its website that it has a “working partnership” with FAIR. SLLI’s legislators are the main instigators behind favored FAIR initiatives, ...Prominent FAIR staffers have held membership or written for other hate groups, in particular the Council of Conservative Citizens, which has described African Americans as a “retrograde species of humanity.” The group has received funding from the neo-Nazi Pioneer Fund.

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DREAM Act Closer To Becoming A Reality

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Amanda Terkel - Nov. 30 (News) - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced on Tuesday that he is moving on a major piece of immigration legislation in the coming days, bringing the DREAM Act one step closer to becoming a reality. His comments followed a meeting with the Democratic caucus, in which several senators vocally urged their colleagues to make the legislation a priority.

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