Twenty-one-year-old Angelica Hernandez stood proudly when Sen. Dick Durbin introduced her to his colleagues Tuesday as the 2011 valedictorian of the mechanical-engineering class at Arizona State University. But even as the Phoenix resident was being acknowledged for her accomplishment, she was being publicly identified as an illegal immigrant in...
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Senator Richard J. Durbin spoke to a crowd of capped and gowned young people, pumping then up with encouraging words as sustenance for their journey ahead. "When I look around this room, I see America's future," he said.
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Growing frustration with illegal immigration, rising public debt and an effective Internet campaign to gather voters' signatures have put Maryland conservatives on the cusp of a victory to delay and possibly repeal a new law that would give undocumented immigrants in-state college tuition breaks.
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Paul Bridges leans toward his desk, picks up the phone and punches in a number with the fast, laser focus of a man on a mission. The mayor of this tiny town in South Georgia is ready for battle -- and looking for a new weapon.
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Ultimately, New York enacted gay marriage because the issue became personal. Legislators previously opposed to gay marriage and key Republicans previously uninvolved both moved into the "yes" camp out of personal relationships with gay and lesbian family members.
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Controversy in South Carolina after Governor Nikki Haley signed an illegal immigration bill into law. Opponents say it opens doors for racial profiling, but others say it may be bad for business. Ron Edwards at Springs Farm in Fort Mill is two months behind pruning peaches.
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Ten years after it was first introduced, the DREAM Act got its first ever hearing in the Senate today, giving hundreds of DREAMers in the audience and around the country some measure of renewed hope as Senate Democrats took up the issue once again.
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The last time the Obama administration made a hard push to legalize some of the children of illegal immigrants, officials focused on some of the inspirational and sympathetic stories of honor students who could gain legal status through the DREAM Act.
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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel endorsed the DREAM Act on Monday, on the eve of the first-ever Senate hearing on the legislation. "The DREAM Act . . . totally reinforces the values of citizenship," said Emanuel in a phone conference alongside Education Secretary Arne Duncan.
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South Carolina Republican Governor Nikki Haley on Monday signed into law a bill that requires police to check the immigration status of anyone they stop or arrest for another reason and suspect may be in the country illegally.
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