Yesterday's announcement of the Obama Administration's important step towards bringing deportation practices in line with its enforcement priorities already is generating predictable responses from many Republicans and their mass-deportation allies.
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As you can imagine, there have been lots of reactions to yesterday's announcement from the Obama administration about the new deportation policy. We've complied some of the comments and statements from a range of our allies and colleagues. For the most part, this is viewed as a good first...
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Earlier this month, there were news stories circulating on the interwebs about a mysterious announcement Senator Durbin had made in a meeting with the Chicago Tribune's editorial board.
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A scathing editorial today in the Washington Post blasts the Republican Party's "scare tactics" on border security and calls out Senator John Cornyn for trying "to have it both ways." The conclusion notes that by promoting "myths" about border security, "politicians perpetuate both a lie and the national disgrace...
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Criticism of the Obama Administration's Secure Communities deportation program has reached a new apex, as elected officials and law enforcement leaders offer serious rebukes of the program and immigrant communities and newspaper editorial boards call for it to be scrapped altogether. It's also become a major political problem...
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Bradford Wells and Anthony John Makk met nineteen years ago in Australia, and were married seven years ago in Massachusetts.
But despite the fact that have been together for so long -- and the fact that Bradford is a U.S. citizen who is terminally ill -- immigration officials have...
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Last week, Immigration, Customs and Enforcement (ICE) created a firestorm when the agency unilaterally ended all of its Memorandum of Agreements (MOA) related to the Secure Communities (S-Comm) program. ICE announced that the program will be mandatory, and it has caused an intense backlash among immigration advocates.
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Over the weekend, the Washington Post ran a feature on Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) and the work the agency does at Dulles Airport.
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Bradford Wells and Anthony John Makk are legally married. Wells is a US citizen. Makk isn't. And, despite the stated view of the President that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is unconstitutional, the Department of Homeland Security is using that law to deport Makk. He must leave the...
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