Sep 17, 2009
Several Hispanic groups are calling on CNN to drop talk-show host and frequent illegal immigrant critic Lou Dobbs, who is broadcasting his radio show from a conference put on by what some activists refer to as a "hate group."
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During an event today with the National Korean American Service & Education Consortium (NAKASEC) and the Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM), U.S. Representative Luis V. Gutierrez (D-IL) was asked by advocates for immigrant communities to introduce comprehensive immigration reform legislation and begin the legislative phase of the reform debate....
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Washington, DC - After a huge push to drive up turnout, and after organizers promised to storm Congress with anti-immigrant citizen lobbyists, just fifty people showed up for the Federation for American Immigration Reform's (FAIR) annual "Hold their Feet to the Fire" event in Washington, DC yesterday.
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Today, Congressman Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) joined health care and immigration reform advocates to question the policy and politics behind new immigrant restrictions in the Senate Finance Committee's draft legislation, released today.
Last week, Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) stunned the country when he shouted "You lie!" during the President's speech to...
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Outside the Capitol Sept. 15 bishops of three denominations led a brief prayer service for an end to hate, particularly hatred toward immigrants.
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The alarm among immigrant advocates over measures excluding legal immigrants from a health care exchange established under the Senate Finance Committee's bill is growing. The new measure includes a clause I hadn't seen before blocking even legal immigrants whose status is set to expire within one year from receiving...
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Jorge-Alonso Chehade came to the US from Peru eight years ago and is now being deported after Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested him when he and a friend accidentally crossed the Canadian border – an incident that happened because the two of them were trying not to violate traffic...
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He suggests that those here illegally be kept from taking part in an insurance exchange set up by the government. Some on the left say that's bad policy that panders to the likes of Joe Wilson.
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There are increasing signs that two of the hottest hot-button issues in town — health care reform and immigration — are becoming inextricably linked. And that's bad news for President Barack Obama as he tries to fashion a compromise.
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The raw emotions of American politics found full-throated voice Tuesday in and around the Capitol. At any given moment, someone was expressing outrage -- or counter-outrage.
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