The crisis of unaccompanied minors fleeing violence from Central America continues to be front page news across the country. As Congress mulls how to respond – if at all – the most important pieces members should read are 1) a powerful piece in the New York Times’ “Sunday Review”...
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Latino Leaders React to Republican Candidate’s Call to Import Arizona-Style Immigration Law in Colorado While the Colorado GOP may have breathed a sigh of relief last month when anti-immigrant firebrand Tom Tancredo lost the gubernatorial primary, now the supposedly-mainstream candidate, Bob Beauprez, is taking up Tancredo’s mantle by aligning...
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In contrast to many Republicans — and some Democrats — insisting that children fleeing violence should be sent back immediately, despite the many dangers they fled from in the first place and despite a Bush-era law that gives them due process, Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D-MD) has encouraged compassion for...
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WASHINGTON, DC – Enmendar o no enmendar. Esa es la pregunta. La Ley de 2008 de Protección a Víctimas de Tráfico de Personas está al centro del debate político para encarar la crisis de los niños migrantes. Dicha ley concede protecciones legales y humanitarias a menores migrantes de países...
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Son niños migrantes que escapan de la violencia y nadie lo duda en Washington, pero la asignación de fondos para resolver la crisis que están creando en la frontera sur empieza a ser condicionada al futuro de una ley federal que prohíbe la deportación expedita de menores indocumentados procedentes...
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El gobernador de Texas (EE.UU.), el republicano Rick Perry, ha aprovechado su papel en la crisis de inmigración infantil que principalmente azota su estado para regresar a la esfera política nacional, un movimiento que muchos interpretan como un paso previo a una nueva carrera presidencial.
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At Politico Magazine today is a piece from Jose Antonio Vargas, highlighting the realities and restrictions of life when you’re an undocumented American. Vargas, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and one of America’s most famous and recognized immigrants ever since he came out in this 2011 New York Times piece, traveled...
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Washington Post (Plum Line): Border crisis could pose major test for John Boehner Bloomberg Businessweek: New York Is Offering Undocumented Immigrants IDs Wall Street Journal: Immigrant Children Face a Long Journey Upon Arrival NPR: An Update On Young Immigrants: From D.C., The Border And Beyond Wall Street Journal: Flood...
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At Telemundo this week is a three-part series about immigrant families facing deportation in Northeast Ohio, and HOLA, the advocacy group fighting to keep them together. Part 1 of the series is here, and part 2 is here (the third part airs tonight). Northeast Ohio is part of the ICE district...
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