Alberto Yanez's deportation has been delayed for another year. This is undoubtedly a small victory in his much larger battle to stay in the only country he’s ever known since he first arrived in California as a toddler, but his fight is long from over.
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There is something fundamentally wrong with our political system when politicians attack the very existence of a class of people. I am talking about real people being beaten down by right wing extremists because they or their ancestors came from somewhere else.
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Over the last six months, Congressman Lamar Smith (R-TX), along with other members of the House Judiciary Committee, have engaged in an all-out effort to turn back the clock on our immigration laws through a series of bills that may tackle one issue at a time, but equal a...
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Professor Ian Goldin and Geoffrey Cameron argue in their recent book, "Exceptional People: How Immigration Shaped Our World and Will Define Our Future", that in a more interconnected world than ever before, the number of people with the means and motivation to migrate will only increase.
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Rep. Elton Gallegly, whose ultimate goal is the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants, and his former colleague, JD Watts, continue their misleading cheerleading for E-Verify. They've got similar talking points, but both failed to mention the rotting fields in Georgia, thanks to a state E-Verify law.
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Americans who wonder why so many illegal immigrants sneak across the border rather than filing the paperwork necessary to immigrate the legal way probably don't understand how difficult and lengthy a process legal immigration can be, said Oklahoma City immigration attorneys T. Douglas Stump and Michael Brooks-Jimenez.
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Most parts of Alabama's immigration law won't take effect until Sept. 1 at the earliest, yet many people already are reacting to it.Some unauthorized immigrants have moved from Alabama. Alabama's new immigration law targets unauthorized immigrants, those who don't have federal alien registration or other proof of legal...
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Secure Communities, the federal program created to target and deport immigrants identified as dangerous felons, ended up leaving many individuals and communities feeling far from secure. Since its inception in 2008, thousands of illegal immigrants who had no criminal record, or had misdemeanor convictions, were deported.
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Following a major USA Today story analyzing crime in U.S. cities along the border with Mexico, Governor Jan Brewer (R-AZ) and Senators John Cornyn (R-TX), Jon Kyl (R-AZ), and John McCain (R-AZ) would do well to heed the famous advice of Daniel Patrick Moynihan:
"Everyone is entitled to his...
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Jul 17, 2011
We won! Activists from America’s Voice sent over 20,000 faxes to DHS and helped stop Mandeep and her mother’s deportation. Thanks to everyone who took action for Mandeep and her family. Without your support, Mandeep would not be here today.
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