On Saturday, the Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice (ACIJ) hosted a community blood drive "to celebrate the contributions of immigrants to our communities with caring and dignity."
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GOP Presidential candidate Mitt Romney has taken harsh, anti-immigrant positions over the past few months. He even vowed to veto the DREAM Act. Last night, NBC's Rock Center on Romney's ties to Mexico. His father was born there. He's got lots of relatives still living there. And, they don't...
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On Friday, the Administration announced a welcome policy change known as the "Family Unity Visa Waiver", which enables undocumented spouses of US citizens to apply for a waiver before returning to their home countries to obtain their green cards.
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Why is it that Republican politicians in Nevada can't learn from recent history when it comes to Latino voters and the politics of immigration? In a key development for one of the 2012 cycle's most prominent Senate battleground races, Senator Dean Heller (R-NV) used the occasion of a...
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Former presidential candidate and archconservative culture warrior Pat Buchanan has finally done it. It wasn't his claim that President Obama's higher education was "probably affirmative action all the way." It wasn't his claim that "this has been a country built, basically by white folks."
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Gallegly is one of the worst of the worst when it comes to immigration in Congress, as we've documented repeatedly. He's currently the Chair of the House Subcommittee on Immigration. Over the weekend, we learned that Gallegly is retiring.
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On a press call today held by America's Voice Education Fund and the American Immigration Lawyers Association, legal experts, families and immigrant advocates applauded the initiation of a new family unity waiver process by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services that will keep families together, improve the bureaucracy, and facilitate...
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Major development on immigration today, as reported by Julia Preston at the New York Times: Obama administration officials announced on Friday that they will propose a fix to a notorious snag in immigration law that will spare hundreds of thousands of American citizens from prolonged separations from immigrant spouses...
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"A Republican probably can't win without about 40 percent, minimum, of the Hispanic and Latino vote." You've heard that many times from America's Voice. Now, it's coming from Larry Sabato, "a well-respected election prognosticator."
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Today on a press call, experts on Latino voters, the politics of immigration, and the DREAM Act highlighted how Mitt Romney's recent pledge to veto the DREAM Act will imperil his chances in the general election.
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