Opponents of illegal immigrants are so busy portraying the Obama administration's new relaxed deportation policy as a back-door amnesty program that Rep. Luis Gutierrez is worried some people are going to get the wrong idea, namely the immigrants themselves.
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With a call to "be patient and be careful," U.S. Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez and pro-immigrant groups announced Tuesday a national information campaign about the significance of the Department of Homeland Security's new deportations policy.
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Minorities accounted for 98 percent of the population growth in the nation's largest metropolitan areas over the past decade, according to a new report, as the country's white population continued to stagnate, and in many places, decline.
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A Catholic activist group criticized Alabama's immigration law Tuesday, saying it would punish clergy for carrying out their ministerial duties. Similar arguments made by attorneys for Alabama religious leaders last week received a skeptical response from a federal judge presiding over a suit seeking to block implementation of the...
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What does it mean when every key player in a controversial, complicated legal case agrees with a judge's decision? That the judge got it right, of course. What the judge got right this week in the much-watched court challenge to Alabama's new immigration law was that she needed more...
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Immigration authorities on Tuesday agreed to suspend the deportation of the guardians of a 17-year-old California leukemia patient and release them from detention, an official said. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will suspend for a year the deportation to Peru of Jose Humberto and Hilda Jauregui (HOW'-ray-gee), whose granddaughter Joseline...
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Aug 30, 2011
Alabama's tough new immigration law was temporarily put on hold by a federal judge on Monday. Alabama's toughest-in-the-nation crackdown had originally been set to take effect Sept. 1 but had come under fire from several groups that filed lawsuits against the measure.
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Edging up on the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, the nation will get its fill of recounting the harrowing events of that day. We will get to relive the horrors of so many innocent lives lost to those cowardly attacks, and we will remember the grim realization that...
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The Republican race for President is wide open. But the party has already settled on its vice presidential nominee: freshman Sen. Marco Rubio.If you asked a computer to design the perfect Republican candidate for vice president, it would come up with Rubio. He's got three big things going for...
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Rick Perry may have jumped to the front of the GOP pack in national polls, but here in first-in-the-nation NH Mitt Romney still holds an 18-point lead. When I asked Romney about Perry during a recent campaign swing through the Granite State, he replied, "I don't know what all...
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