Last week, Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy (D) wrote to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) requesting deferred action on behalf of DREAM-eligible student Mariano Cardoso. Cardoso, who has been living in the U.S. since he was a year old, is currently facing deportation and is merely months away...
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A California congresswoman Friday called for an investigation into the actions of federal immigration officials, saying they lied about whether counties and states had the right to opt out of a controversial nationwide enforcement program that screens for illegal immigrants in local jails.
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Protesting outside the Arizona legislature this week, Hispanic activist Carlos Galindo was clear about the impact of the desert state's controversial immigration crackdown made into law one year ago. "It has polarized Arizona," said Galindo, 51, a talk-radio host sitting with protesters.
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Reflecting growing liberal frustration with President Barack Obama's lack of progress on immigration reform, a Democratic congressman from his home state of Illinois is barnstorming through the Bay Area this week to demand the administration slow down its record-high number of deportations.
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Newt Gingrich has come a long way since criticizing Latinos a few years ago for continuing to speak "the language of living in a ghetto." He's taking Spanish lessons, reaching out to Hispanic community leaders, and supports "finding a way for residency" for some illegal immigrants.
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An immigration bill recently introduced in the Florida Legislature is doing something to the Republican Party's Cuban exile base in South Florida that Democrats have had trouble accomplishing over the years.
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Apr 22, 2011
Mariano Cardoso tiene dos razones para estar contento esta semana. Primero, acaba de celebrar su cumpleaños este pasado 16 de abril, y segundo, el gobernador de Connecticut, Dannel P. Malloy, acaba de enviarle una carta al gobierno federal abogando contra su deportación. Según la agencia noticiosa AP, el gobernador...
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Earlier this week, Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy (D) wrote to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) requesting deferred action on behalf of DREAM-eligible student Mariano Cardoso, who is facing deportation despite living in the U.S. since he was a year old and being mere months away from graduating...
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Earlier this week, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) threw a hissy fit about the Utah law, writing a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to make a tortured case for why the work permit component of the legislation (the part he dislikes) should be challenged in court by the...
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A coalition of community and faith-based pro-immigration groups who helped elect President Obama in 2008 will begin a series of town-hall meetings and news conferences Tuesday in California to tell the president that the nations immigration system is "broken" and to remind him of campaign pledges he made to...
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