Mar 23, 2011
For years, Rep. Jeff Flake was one of the most reliable Republican champions for comprehensive immigration reform. Not anymore. As his campaign for Arizona's 2012 GOP Senate nomination revs up, Flake is explicitly rejecting his past advocacy for far-reaching legislation that would secure the border, enact a temporary-worker program...
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Leonel Ruiz, a landscaper in Brentwood, N.Y., was waiting at Kennedy International Airport on the early morning of March 11 for his 4-year-old daughter, Emily, to arrive home from a trip to Guatemala. The plane arrived hours late, but Emily was not on it, and neither was her grandfather,...
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Hundreds of thousands of children born to illegal immigrants every year would no longer be eligible to join the military if efforts to restrict birthright citizenship are successful. That has some immigration experts concerned that ending birthright citizenship could exacerbate chronic shortages of U.S. troops and hamper national security...
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The Indigo Girls plan to join activist groups at a rally at the Georgia state Capitol to protest proposed immigration laws. The folk rock duo plans to speak and perform at the rally Thursday that is organized by a coalition of civil liberties and immigrant rights groups. Organizers...
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With her two children at her side, Sandra Romero said that aggressive enforcement of immigration laws tore her family apart. Her husband immigrated alone as a young man trying to escape civil war in Guatemala, helped his parents, and built a family.
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Nobody has been fired from ROC Commercial Cleaning in Oakdale -- at least not yet. Since they got word that federal immigration officials are poring over the company's employment records, some janitors have simply quit.
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Hostility from a key voting demographic, weakened ties between law enforcement and communities, and boycotts that chill the local economy have all been consequences of Arizona's decision to pass the infamously stringent SB 1070 anti-immigration bill last year...Yet apparently the state of Georgia wants in on the action, with...
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As it turns out, it wasn't over. Last week, America's Voice collected almost 4,800 signatures to investigate Kansas Rep. Virgil Peck's comments about shooting undocumented immigrants from helicopters.
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The federal government is exploring the possibility of using a credit rating giant like Equifax to verify the identity of American workers, a move that could make it far more difficult for undocumented immigrants to get work using stolen Social Security numbers.
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Rhode Island businesses would stand on the front lines of efforts to crack down on illegal immigration under a legislative proposal to require employers to check the immigration status of every job applicant. The measure is one of several proposals dealing with illegal immigration scheduled to go to...
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