New York - few would dispute - is a city of immigrants. That's what makes it so difficult to understand the city's collaboration with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement to deport thousands of innocent people and cruelly divide families.
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Oct 20, 2010
Sharron Angle did not show up at the huge Tea Party Express rally in Las Vegas on Tuesday night. But the event was almost entirely in support of her and the divisive, anti-immigrant platform she has promoted in her accelerating drive to replace Senator Harry Reid.
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Immigration has been the subject of many attack ads in the final stretch of campaigning for mid-term elections. Host Michel Martin talks with Matt Barreto, a political science professor at University of Washington, and media consultant Lionel Sosa.
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New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand addressed the state's ethnic media Wednesday, Oct. 20, and reiterated her commitment to pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill that treats immigrants fairly and gives them a path to earned citizenship.
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Spanish-language networks and publications are taking on a more prominent role this election season, nabbing debates with major candidates and increasingly seeing their political coverage spin out into mainstream English-language media.
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Javier is a clean-cut high school senior. He had just celebrated completing his application to Georgia State University when he learned the University System of Georgia passed a policy that prohibits five public universities from taking undocumented students.
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For nearly a year, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has been desperately trying to devise a way to energize Hispanic voters in his quest to secure a fifth term, and his GOP opponent and a GOP-linked group may have just handed him two.
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The candidates voiced sharply different perspectives about what the government should do about the estimated 2.6 million undocumented immigrants living in California. But most of their disagreement concerned policies under the purview of the federal government.
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The state senator in Arizona who wrote the nation's toughest law against illegal immigrants said Tuesday he's collecting support across the country from legislators to challenge automatic U.S. citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants.
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President Barack Obama on Tuesday signed an executive order to improve Hispanic children's educational opportunities.
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