The Obama administration will insist on measures to give legal status to an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants as it pushes early next year for legislation to overhaul the immigration system, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Friday.
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Last week was huge for the immigration reform movement. First, CNN paid off Lou Dobbs to take his ranting and raving about immigrants and immigration reform off of television. Then, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano made it clear in a major address at the Center for American Progress...
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Via Huffington Post (This last line is priceless-- watch it): ""Saturday Night Live" went after Lou Dobbs this week, claiming he retired from CNN because he thinks the "C" stands for the Spanish word "si." Dobbs, played by Darrell Hammond, went on to refer to his replacement, John King,...
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Nov 14, 2009
The Obama administration expects Congress to begin moving to overhaul the nation's immigration laws early next year, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Friday, adding that improved border security and a drop in migration caused by the economic downturn make such changes "far more attainable" than in 2007.
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Today, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano stressed the need to fix our nation's badly broken immigration system. Napolitano argued for a comprehensive immigration reform plan that emphasizes both strong national security provisions and a pathway to earned citizenship for the undocumented.
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Early in the reform debate, immigration looked like it would be the most contentious issue. After all, it was President Obama's remark that reform wouldn't give insurance to illegal immigrants that prompted Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., to shout, "You lie!" It became a big issue in the House, especially...
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13/11/09 a 2:44pm por Maribel Hastings Janet Napolitano, Secretaria de Seguridad Nacional (DHS), delineó hoy en un discurso en el Center for American Progress (CAP), todos los argumentos que han allanado el terreno para avanzar una reforma migratoria en la primera mitad de 2010. Aunque Napolitano declaró que el...
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We have entered a new chapter and a new phase in the immigration debate. Secretary Napolitano today laid out the framework for fixing the broken immigration system, and the solution is comprehensive immigration reform. Drawing on her years of experience on the southwest border, and her new...
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13/11/09 a 12:45pm por Maribel Hastings This week various sources reported on another “silent” raid conducted by the Obama administration, this time at a Minnesota company where 1,200 janitors were fired last month after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) audit. The administration has abandoned traditional raids with agents...
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I was 21 and had just graduated from Vanderbilt University. I didn't agree with the war we were fighting in Vietnam then, and I was scared of dying there, but I marched into the recruitment office in Nashville to join the Army.
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