Today Peter Nicholas of the Los Angeles Times reports that, "Despite steep odds, the White House has discussed prospects for reviving a major overhaul of the nation's immigration laws, a commitment that President Obama has postponed once already." News that the White House is pushing Congress to move forward...
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Mar 4, 2010
We must work to pass real immigration reform that creates an ordered, legal process for undocumented immigrants to come out of the shadows, register, and obtain the same rights and responsibilities as all Americans. Right now, there are millions of workers and families for whom that process does not...
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Fed up with Congress and frustrated with President Barack Obama's brief mention of immigration reform in the State of the Union address, immigrant rights supporters are now organizing around the clock to push legislators to move on reform in 2010. It will not be an easy feat.
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EFE issues a dispatch from Atlanta, where the Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights (GLAHR) is heading a boycott of Wal-Mart, due to start on March 20th, to ask the company to take a stand in support of immigration reform. "The point of this initiative is to call attention...
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Today the National Council of la Raza launched a new action center that Maegan la Mamita Mala of Vivir Latino describes this way:
…and at the heart of it is reminding President Obama about all those promises he made in order to earn the Latino vote, especially his promises on...
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The Spanish-language press continues to highlight the importance of the March 21st march for immigration reform. The EFE reports that "Once, President George W. Bush was accused of failing to spend sufficient political capital on passing immigration reform. Now Obama confronts similar complaints, and the drama threatens to repeat...
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Mar 2, 2010
02/03/10 a 1:11pm La receta milagrosa para solucionar en gran parte el actual problema de desempleo que experimenta el país pretende haberla encontrado el representante a la Cámara Baja del Distrito 42 de California, Gary Miller, quien se encuentra promocionando su proyecto de ley LEAVE entre sus colegas del...
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A La Opinión article covers the inefficiency of using high-tech tools to patrol the border. The article cites an analysis by the TransBorder Project at the Washington, D.C.-based Center for International Policy which says that the cost of, for example, remotely-piloted unmanned planes (or "drones") is too high for...
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Research Library
2010
Background Briefing: J.D. Hayworth: Leading the GOP Into a Political Wilderness on Immigration, February 2010
Report: The Power of the Latino Vote in the 2010 Elections: They Tipped Elections in 2008; Where Will They Be in 2010?, February 2010
Detention Watch Network's current campaign, "Dignity Not Detention: Preserving Human Rights and Restoring Justice," aims to protect human rights by putting an end to the expansion of the US immigration detention system, with these four goals in mind: 1. Reduce detention spending by the Obama Administration 2. Demand...
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