Jun 3, 2011
Several civil rights groups filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to halt Georgia's stringent new immigration law that would allow law enforcement to check the legal status of criminal suspects and force many businesses to do the same with potential employees.
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Los Angeles Sheriff Lee Baca is a complicated guy. One minute, he's preaching to 9/11-mongering bigots in Washington, D.C. on the importance of creating open, trustful relationships between a city's law-enforcement officers and its many diverse racial sectors (namely, the Muslim-American community, which could prove useful in providing terrorist...
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Yesterday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) suspended his state's participation in the ineffective Secure Communities deportation program, due to concerns over its impact on community policing and public safety. In his letter to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Gov. Cuomo said that "The heart of concern...
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America's favorite distraction Sarah Palin continued her will-she-or-won't-she-run-for-President bus tour yesterday with a visit to New York's Ellis Island and the "Statute" of Liberty and took time to ruminate about immigration.
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There he goes again. This time, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX)--the GOP's top political strategist for Latino outreach--is taking on asylum-seekers fleeing persecution and seeking freedom in America. Today, Smith's House Judiciary Committee is marking up the "Keep Our Communities Safe Act," H.R. 1932. This made-for-TV show...
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Elier Lara is concentrating on final exams this week and not worrying about his immigration status. The University of Cincinnati honor student has learned that his attorney and the chief deputy counsel for the Department of Homeland Security filed a joint motion requesting dismissal of Lara's deportation case.
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Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said on Wednesday that he was suspending New York's participation in a federal immigration enforcement plan that has drawn fire from immigrant advocates, civil liberties lawyers and elected officials in the state and around the country.
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In his state of the state speech in February, Gov. Rick Perry declared, "We must establish criminal penalties for employers who knowingly hire workers who are here in violation of immigration law." Tough words, but said with a wink and a nod.
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State lawmakers Wednesday advanced measures that would allow undocumented university students to apply for financial aid, would help police monitor use of social networking websites by sex offenders and would end the fingerprinting of food stamp recipients.
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The American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia and other rights groups are preparing to file a lawsuit challenging Georgia's immigration law, which seeks to go after undocumented immigrants. The state chapter of the ACLU said in a statement Wednesday that the groups plan to hold a news conference Thursday...
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