Jul 20, 2011
The White House hosted yet another inconsequential Latino summit last week, with dozens of community leaders from across the country. The purpose of this Hispanic Policy Conference, according to White House Director of Intergovernmental Affairs Cecilia Muñoz, was "more for us to listen and not for us to talk."
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The federal program "Secure Communities," a subtle but potentially far-ranging change in immigration policy, has been implemented in Pacific County. As noted by Pacific County Sheriff Scott Johnson, "I got an e-mail from ICE notifying me that the Secure Communities implementation for Pacific County would occur on July 19.
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When you know a bill was cynically crafted: If it limits the current president's "discretion" but lifts the restriction for the next president. This describes Rep. Lamar Smith's Hinder the Administration's Legalization Temptation (HALT) Act.
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Jul 19, 2011
Michigan has seen the results of what immigrants can do to help the economy through companies such as Meijer Inc., Masco Corp. and Dow Chemical Co., and should be attracting more immigrants who can repeat those successes, Gov. Rick Snyder said Monday.
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America's economic future depends on the strength and innovative capacity of our people. We must make the American workforce the strongest in the world. That means educating and training our people. It also means ensuring we continue to bring to our shores those individuals with the skills, innovative capacity...
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California Republicans are pushing a bill that would require employers to electronically verify the immigration status of potential hires, despite warnings from farmers that it will devastate their work force.The Legal Workforce Act is aimed at using a system known as E-Verify to prevent undocumented immigrants from taking jobs...
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Joaquin Bonilla, an undocumented Salvadoran immigrant, was arrested by police in the Miami area recently for driving with an expired license. Bonilla's wife, Irene Martínez, paid a bail agent $150 toward his bond. But Bonilla was not released because immigration authorities had placed a detainer on him so...
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Although the debate over U.S. immigration policy is often cast as a conflict between U.S. citizens and undocumented immigrants, the reality is much more complicated. Undocumented immigrants often have U.S. citizen spouses, children, and parents.
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Sen. Chuck Schumer is attempting to revive moribund efforts to pass a comprehensive immigration bill, telling POLITICO Monday that he will hold a hearing next week focused on the economic argument for an immigration overhaul. It's a subtle shift in emphasis for immigration reform advocates, who met recently with...
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There is something fundamentally wrong with our political system when politicians attack the very existence of a class of people. I am talking about real people being beaten down by right wing extremists because they or their ancestors came from somewhere else.
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