Three Republican presidential hopefuls will participate in a "Meet the Candidates" forum in Miami this Wednesday, sponsored by Univision and the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, in the lead up to Florida's hotly-contested GOP primary election.
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Last year the administration added a revolutionary new weapon to its immigration enforcement arsenal -- common sense. In June, John Morton, Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, announced that the agency would employ "prosecutorial discretion" in its enforcement of the immigration law.
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Supporters and opponents of Arizona's controversial immigration law are squaring off again after Democrats say they're working to repeal the measure. Dozens of protesters gathered at the state Capitol on Monday, carrying signs and shouting at each other as lawmakers on both sides discussed the 2010 law.
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Democratic state lawmakers say they will seek to repeal parts of Georgia's tough new immigration enforcement law, complaining it is harming the state's $68.8 billion farming industry. But the chances of such a repeal passing this year are likely slim.
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"This is a jobs bill," they said. "This is a jobs-creation bill for Americans," they said. Such were the arguments that Alabama Senator Scott Beason (R) and Rep. Micky Hammon (R) made last year before passing their notoriously anti-immigrant state law, HB 56.
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Mitt Romney's promise to veto a measure that would create a path to citizenship for some illegal immigrants threatens to turn off some Hispanic voters, whose support could be critical in a general election match-up against President Barack Obama.
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Newt Gingrich on Friday backed at least a portion of the Dream Act, saying that he would grant a path to citizenship to illegal immigrant youths who agree to sign up and serve in the U.S. military.
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It's unclear whether farmers in Georgia and Alabama will face a shortage of workers owing to tough new laws targeting illegal immigration, but some producers said they have begun changing their plans for planting and harvesting this year's crops.
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On a humid, rainy winter morning on the outskirts of Charleston, Shirley Juarez is setting tables, laying out doormats and getting ready for another weekday lunch rush at El Chapin, a Central American restaurant here. It's a taste of home for the Guatemala native who came to the United...
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Republicans think that Marco Rubio is a sort of magic elixir that can instantly cure what ails them. And what is this ailment? It's the fact that many Latinos — especially Mexicans and Mexican-Americans who represent more than two-thirds of the Hispanic population — consider the GOP to be...
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