Oct 5, 2009
The Obama administration is unveiling on Tuesday an ambitious plan to repair the immigration detention system, a scandal-plagued mix of federal, state and local lockups that grew vastly and rotted under the enforcement crusade led by former President George W. Bush.
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Oct 3, 2009
In parts of Los Angeles, joblessness has reached levels unmatched since the Depression. In many predominantly African American and Latino neighborhoods, nearly one in four people is out of work.
Yet the Obama administration has chosen this moment to deprive more than 1,800 Angelenos, nearly all Latino immigrants, of jobs...
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The sheriff said he signed a new agreement Friday that will allow deputies and detention officers to continue screening every inmate booked into Maricopa County jails to determine their immigration status.
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With a prolonged health care debate sucking up all of the energy in Congress at the moment, there's still some very good news for common-sense immigration reform, from the New York Times today.
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The Framingham Police Department pulled out this week because the federal government had urged the force to detain and deport immigrants more aggressively, and the chief feared that would erode trust in the community.
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The Framingham Police Department pulled out this week because the federal government had urged the force to detain and deport immigrants more aggressively, and the chief feared that would erode trust in the community.
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Since we are in the middle of Hispanic Heritage Month, it is the perfect time for we who call ourselves Republicans to take a long-overdue moral stand. Even though I've been a member of the GOP ever since I had the chance to vote, I often disagree with those...
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"What part of illegal don't you understand?" is a popular refrain among those who wish to make the immigration issue into a moral crusade, a battle between good and evil.
Well, it turns out there's a lot about this issue they don't understand.
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Anti-immigrant groups like FAIR, aided and abetted by pundits like CNN's on-air immigrant-basher Lou Dobbs, and validated by rabble-rousing Congressmen like Joe Wilson, were trying to kill health care reform with their typical line that new benefits were going to be provided to undocumented immigrants. It wasn't true—but, as...
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Is the U.S. losing some of its juice as a destination for foreign tourists? Syed Shahid Ali, a member of the International Olympic Committee from Pakistan, raised that issue ahead of the IOC picking Rio to host the 2016 Summer Games over Madrid, Tokyo and last-place finisher Chicago.
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