Instead of working to pass comprehensive immigration reform, Republicans in Congress are pushing for the expulsion of all 11 million undocumented immigrants in this country. Their plan, called "attrition through enforcement," is to ramp up deportations and make life in the U.S. so degrading and unbearable that the...
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In the aftermath of the Trayvon Martin shooting and Florida's newly infamous Stand Your Ground law, many are beginning to look into the source of the law—the secretive, low-profile, highly influential American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).
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In the aftermath of the Trayvon Martin shooting and Florida's newly infamous Stand Your Ground law, many are beginning to look into the source of the law—the secretive, low-profile, highly influential American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).
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The illegal reentry of a previously deported immigrant is one the principal rationales for deportations conducted under the Obama administration. Many of these cases could fall under the new policy of prosecutorial discretion but, for some reason, they are not considered in this category.
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President Obama's reelection team wants to turn Arizona from red to blue in 2012 with the help of Latino voters, but it will have to reverse a decades-old problem to accomplish that goal.
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Jaime Martinez of Manitowoc, whose family and friends have been fighting his deportation, got on a bus in Chicago on Friday morning on the first leg of his journey back to Mexico.
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In the run-up to the 2012 presidential election, many Hispanics are talking about voting for the lesser of two evils. The hard part is figuring out the lesser evil. African-Americans aren't facing the same dilemma, and yet many of those on the far left are also disappointed in President...
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As America continues to look for more jobs Washington can't seem to come up with an answer. We've heard solutions from policy wonks, politicians, and academics, but rarely from people who have first-hand experience actually creating jobs.
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Any day now Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will announce a second round of "reforms" to the disgraced "Secure Communities" deportation program, S-Comm. And once again, it appears that ICE is more interested in spin than substance.
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Mar 23, 2012
I have a friend named Jaime Martinez Espinal. I met him several years ago at our local Y. Like others who know him, I respect his work ethic; his willingness to help others; and most of all, the love he has for his wife, Jennifer, and their four beautiful...
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