Dec 9, 2009
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will go before the Senate Judiciary Committee today to talk about progress made in border protection and what remains to be done: immigration law reform.
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Napolitano, who in a major speech last month outlined the aggressive steps her agency had taken to enforce current immigration laws and secure the U.S./Mexico border – including increasing the ranks of the border patrol to more than 20,000 officers, building more than 600 miles of fencing along...
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There are those in Washington who doubt the possibility of passing comprehensive immigration reform, and while they say it's too hard, Cokie Roberts, news analyst for NPR, claims immigration reform - though challenging - is "reform that's right stuff." In an Op-Ed piece to the Trentonian today, Cokie explains...
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) may not have a chance of passing an immigration reform bill next year, but that's not going to stop him from keeping the contentious issue on the chamber's front burner as he tries to rally Hispanic voters behind what's likely to be a...
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There is no doubt that some native-born workers compete with some unauthorized immigrants for the same jobs. But the vast majority do not. And many businesses, both large and small, depend on the purchasing power that unauthorized workers wield. Immigrants didn't cause the current economic recession, and scapegoating them...
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The current immigration system is an abomination on every level.
Twelve million people live here illegally; they are not going home, but they have no hope of normalizing their status.
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What began earlier this year as one young man's quest to stay in the U.S. has grown into a movement, with nearly 200 demonstrators rallying on behalf of Rigo Padilla in Chicago last week and faxes and text messages being sent to Washington with pleas to spare him from...
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First they were arrested and faced deportation under what has proven to be the Obama administration's only workplace raid. Then they were given work permits, and told they could stay in the United States while their employer was being prosecuted.
Now, the more than two dozen undocumented workers arrested during...
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Dec 3, 2009
Growing numbers of noncitizens, including legal immigrants, are held unnecessarily and transferred heedlessly in an expensive immigration detention system that denies many of them basic fairness, a bipartisan study group and a human rights organization concluded in reports released jointly on Wednesday.
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In a letter to Obama, CEOs of some 70 high-tech companies, including Intel, Microsoft Corp. and Dell Inc., urged the president to speed up stimulus spending and focus on policies that they feel can help spur long-term growth, such as promoting free trade and overhauling immigration rules to make...
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