Apr 19, 2011
To mark the tax-filing deadline, the Immigration Policy Center released a report on Monday estimating that unauthorized immigrants paid $11.2 billion in state and local taxes last year, including $807 million in Florida. The Florida total includes $69 million in property tax and $737 million in sales tax.
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Metro Detroit was front and center Monday in the immigration debate as an Illinois lawmaker brought his national tour to town to highlight deportations and the need for reform. "The system just isn't working, and we need to change it now," Rep. Luis Gutierrez said to cheers at...
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Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer on Monday vetoed a bill that would have required President Barack Obama and other presidential candidates to prove their U.S. citizenship before their names could appear on the state's ballot. The bill would have made Arizona the first state to pass such a requirement.
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The state's agricultural commissioner said Monday that he will soon begin a thorough study of whether Georgia can legally create its own guest-worker program. Agricultural Commissioner Gary Black said his department will consult officials in Utah, where the state Legislature passed a bill this year that would allow...
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Georgia has been arresting student activists, ignoring the state's civil rights history, and snubbing protests from business, immigration, and faith groups in order to pass its own state immigration bill, an SB 1070 copycat. The problem? Georgia will soon gain a new seat in Congress, largely due...
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Despite opposition from the business, faith and education communities, the Georgia legislature just passed an Arizona-like anti-immigration bill, and Governor Nathan Deal said that he plans to sign it. According to Jerry Gonzalez, Executive Director of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials, the bill will "create an...
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After stops in Boston, Providence, and Chicago, Congressman Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) is taking his 20-city "Change Takes Courage" tour to Detroit, home to our recent coverage of outrageous ICE abuses involving agents stalking elementary schools and strip-searching mothers.
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U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez told a group of Immigration reform supporters on Saturday he's not sure he could back President Barack Obama in 2012 if he doesn't step up efforts to change deportation policy and education opportunities for illegal students.
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Four young undocumented immigrants spoke on a telephone press conference today to urge President Obama to grant relief from deportation to young people who would have been eligible for the DREAM Act, which was passed in the U.S. House of Representatives in December, but failed to pass in the...
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Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal said on Friday he would sign into law an Arizona-style immigration bill, a move that would thrust his state into the center of the national debate over securing the country's borders.
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