Citing nearly 20 years of data that show "significant racial disparities" in the way Rhode Island State Police officers enforce traffic laws, eight civil-rights and community organizations are urging federal officials not to deputize some state police officers as federal immigration enforcers.
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President Obama recently held a White House meeting on immigration and Sen. Charles M. Schumer, D-N.Y., is talking about the principles for comprehensive immigration reform, a signal that they are serious about starting the congressional debate on reforming the nation's laws. For those who expect this debate to be...
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Some of the nation's top cops on Wednesday called upon Congress to promptly adopt an immigration reform measure, saying local law enforcement agencies across America are struggling to deal with crime and confusion caused by a broken system.
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Over one hundred leading law enforcement officials gathered in Phoenix this week to discuss how the current federal immigration policy impacts community policing at the local level. At the National Summit on Local Immigration Policies, hosted by the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), these chiefs concluded that the...
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It's official, Heath Shuler is back trying to insert himself into the immigration debate. The only problem? He didn't get it in 2008 and he still doesn't get it today.
It's almost as if he has a cheat sheet of ineffective policies that are becoming a revolving door for his...
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Mario Solis-Marich writes: "The Most Trusted Name in News" has looked the other way as Dobbs made them cash by selling outright lies about the immigration debate. Will CNN officials continue to hide in their accounting suites as Dobbs makes believe that the President of the United States is...
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24/07/09 a 9:29am por Maribel Hastings El presidente Barack Obama dijo algo muy cierto en su rueda de prensa del miércoles: “en este pueblo (o sea, Washington), si uno no fija fechas para las cosas, no pasa nada”. Se refería a la reforma de salud que parece haberse pospuesto...
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Jul 23, 2009
All sides agree on one thing in the strange case of a South Florida hospital that secretly repatriated a seriously brain injured patient back to Guatemala.
During the early hours of a steamy July 2003 morning, Martin Memorial Medical Center chartered a private plane and sent 37-year-old Luis Jimenez back...
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Katherine Figueroa was at an aunt's house on that Saturday morning, playing a game with her cousin, when she heard the man on TV say there had been a raid at the car wash where her parents worked.
"Something came to me in my mind that they got my parents,...
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The flow of immigrants from Mexico to the U.S. declined to the lowest level in a decade during the past year, a sign that the recession is deterring economic migrants from heading north in search of jobs.
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