Maricopa County Board of Supervisors withheld an item from its Wednesday agenda to accept $1.6 million in immigration funding from the state that would help pay for Sheriff Joe Arpaio's immigration enforcement efforts.
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The Spanish-language press covers a pair of stories of stubbornness in Arizona today, as Sheriff Joe Arpaio refuses to cooperate with a Department of Justice civil-rights investigation and the state legislature decides not to change SB 1070 in light of last month's federal ruling keeping parts of the lawfrom...
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Three Virginia congressmen, including U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly (D), are urging Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano to grant Gov. Robert McDonnell's request to allow state troopers to act as immigration and customs agents.
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Aug 17, 2010
Implementing proposed immigration legislation modeled after Arizona's controversial law could cost Utah millions of dollars, according to a state senator, who is working on an alternate plan.
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Nope. That was not a typo. A new poll from Fox News finds that 68 percent of voters, including majorities of Republicans, Democrats, and Independents, say efforts to secure the border should be combined with reform of federal immigration laws by Congress. What do voters mean by...
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A new poll from Fox News finds that 68 percent of voters, including majorities of Republicans, Democrats, and Independents, say efforts to secure the border should be combined with reform of federal immigration laws by Congress. What do voters mean by reform of federal immigration laws? ...
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Daily life for Marlen Lopez sounds anything but easy: The undocumented worker cleans offices to pay her bills and hasn't seen her 8-year-old son since she left El Salvador three years ago.
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Aug 16, 2010
Dear President Obama: My name is Yves Gomes. I am 17 years old and I just graduated from Paint Branch High School in Burtonsville, MD this June.
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16/08/10 a 11:07am por Maribel Hastings Por Maribel Hastings WASHINGTON – Tremendo revuelo armó el líder de la mayoría demócrata del Senado, Harry Reid, al decir que no sabe cómo “alguien de herencia hispana” puede ser republicano. Su declaración generó críticas de republicanos y llevó a la Asociación Nacional...
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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano was out in front over the weekend as the Administration defended a newly-passed $600 million bill for border security, while Tea Party activists promised not to "stop yelling" about the need for even more money. Elsewhere in the Spanish-language press, Arizona's harsh new anti-immigration...
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