10 de octubre de 2009
10/11/09 a 11:50am por Maribel Hastings Part 2 in the series Immigration Reform: Know the Players WASHINGTON, D.C. – One group that has changed dramatically since past immigration battles — with help from the growing influence of social networking–are the so-called “DREAMers:” undocumented youth who would benefit from the...
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10 de octubre de 2009
The way this country detains illegal immigrants is about to change dramatically — at least if the Obama administration follows through on a proposed overhaul unveiled this week. The man responsible for making it happen: John Morton, the assistant secretary for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the Department of...
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9 de octubre de 2009
Last night, some of my colleagues at America's Voice went to the Washington premier of CNN's upcoming special, Latino in America. We've been waiting to see how this highly publicized series would handle one of the biggest menaces facing Latinos in America: CNN's Lou Dobbs.
But, last night we...
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9 de octubre de 2009
When it comes to repairing our nation's broken immigration system, the Obama Administration has made two commitments to the American people: 1) to re-orient our nation's immigration enforcement priorities to target the "worst of the worst" – in the words of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Undersecretary John Morton; and...
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9 de octubre de 2009
Immigrant advocacy groups have urged Morristown officials not to participate in a federal program that would allow local police to enforce immigration laws.
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9 de octubre de 2009
An American evangelical Christian group is urging Congress to approve reforms to immigration laws in a resolution approved Thursday.
The National Association of Evangelicals' resolution, passed unanimously by the group's board of directors, recommends that immigration laws provide a path for the undocumented to eventually gain legal status, place a...
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9 de octubre de 2009
The Obama administration has repealed a rule that would have threatened employers with prosecution unless they fired workers whose Social Security numbers did not match entries in a government database, ending a two-year battle in a San Francisco federal court.
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9 de octubre de 2009
CNN's Lou Dobbs to Black People: "I don't want your excuses … quit whining.”
I was at the Washington screening of the new CNN series, "Latino in America" last night and was, well, not too happy when I left the building. I'll get into the details about that in a minute, but what really set me over the edge was when Laura Esquivel,...
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8 de octubre de 2009
08/10/09 a 11:53am por Maribel Hastings Se anticipa que hoy el congresista demócrata de Illinois, Luis Gutiérrez, presente los “principios” de un proyecto de reforma migratoria integral que se daría a conocer próximamente. Aunque la reforma de salud le ha robado el oxígeno a la agenda legislativa, Gutiérrez e...
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8 de octubre de 2009
Vitter’s Vice: Addicted to the Anti-Immigrant Message, Seeks to Use Census as Wedge
Early in the summer, Republicans were tacking on a slew of lopsided immigration enforcement amendments to a DHS Appropriations bill. The charge was led mostly by Senator Sessions and his anti-immigrant cronies, one of which was Senator David Vitter (R-LA).
Now it looks as if Senator Vitter is back...
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