With a call to "be patient and be careful," U.S. Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez and pro-immigrant groups announced Tuesday a national information campaign about the significance of the Department of Homeland Security's new deportations policy.
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Minorities accounted for 98 percent of the population growth in the nation's largest metropolitan areas over the past decade, according to a new report, as the country's white population continued to stagnate, and in many places, decline.
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A Catholic activist group criticized Alabama's immigration law Tuesday, saying it would punish clergy for carrying out their ministerial duties. Similar arguments made by attorneys for Alabama religious leaders last week received a skeptical response from a federal judge presiding over a suit seeking to block implementation of the...
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What does it mean when every key player in a controversial, complicated legal case agrees with a judge's decision? That the judge got it right, of course. What the judge got right this week in the much-watched court challenge to Alabama's new immigration law was that she needed more...
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Immigration authorities on Tuesday agreed to suspend the deportation of the guardians of a 17-year-old California leukemia patient and release them from detention, an official said. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will suspend for a year the deportation to Peru of Jose Humberto and Hilda Jauregui (HOW'-ray-gee), whose granddaughter Joseline...
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After a long, hot summer of protests and lawsuits, Alabama's tough new immigration law is scheduled to begin taking effect this week.
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As the Republican presidential primary battle starts to heat up, two recent articles analyze the Party's positioning on immigration reform and standing with Latino voters. Border Security First – the "Usual Republican Crutch" on Immigration: A new Washington Post editorial notes that Governor Rick Perry (R-TX) is just the...
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A task force set up by the Obama administration to ease political tensions over a deportation program has held the last of four public hearings, which instead served largely to galvanize vocal protests against the policy.
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Legislative Republicans today announced plans to file legislation forcing the Patrick administration to join Secure Communities, a federal program aimed at cracking down on criminal illegal immigrant that has sparked allegations by immigrant advocates and officials in some states that the program leads to profiling and nets petty criminals,...
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Proposed immigration detention facilities in Florida and New Jersey will be ringed with barbed wire and house people against their will -- but don't call them jails or prisons. "ICE has instituted reforms to address the vast majority of complaints about its immigration detention system," Barbara Gonzalez, an Immigration...
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