While the President is a master storyteller in his own right, NCLR did not wait for Obama's much-anticipated luncheon speech to focus on the power of narrative to illuminate fundamental, often complicated matters of immigration and citizenship.
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President Obama stepped up to the podium this week to address the largest and most powerful annual gathering of Chicano/Latinos and he was smiling. It was at the same NCLR annual conference that in 2008, then-candidate Barack Obama, made one of the most stirring rebukes of this nation's immigration...
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Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) told CNN's Kyra Phillips on Wednesday his arrest outside the White House on Tuesday was "well worth it." Gutierrez noted that last Thursday, Obama "spoke at the probably oldest and most memorable civil rights organization in the Latino community here in the United States, National...
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Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) told CNN's Kyra Phillips on Wednesday his arrest outside the White House on Tuesday was "well worth it." Gutierrez noted that last Thursday, Obama "spoke at the probably oldest and most memorable civil rights organization in the Latino community here in the United States, National...
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On July 7, National Public Radio (NPR) welcomed on Mark Krikorian, head of anti-immigrant group Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), to discuss Jose Antonio Vargas, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who recently went public with his undocumented status.
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President Barack Obama courted the vote-rich Latino community Monday and urged activists to build a national movement to pressure Republicans to overhaul the nation's broken immigration laws.
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President Obama spoke briefly on Monday with a woman who is becoming a symbol of the effort to stop deportations of young illegal immigrants. Mercedes Gonzalez said in an interview that the president told her: "Everything is going to be fine. You're going to be OK."
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Representative Luis V. Gutierrez, a Democrat from Illinois who has become a perennial thorn on immigration for President Obama, was arrested Tuesday afternoon along with about a dozen activists in a protest outside the White House.
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Jul 26, 2011
Following through on a campaign promise, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law Monday easing access to privately funded financial aid for undocumented college students. He also signaled that he was likely to back a more controversial measure allowing those students to seek state-funded tuition aid in the future.
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With an estimated 4 million American citizen children having at least one undocumented immigrant parent, American children are in urgent need of immigration reform. We need public policy that ensures these children will be financially and physically cared for in their land of origin.
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