Last week, New York State DREAMers went to Albany to lobbying members of the New York State Legislature for a state DREAM Act. Albor Ruiz from the New York Daily News profiled César Vargas and his work on DREAM.
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The news out of Arizona is that its Republican-dominated state Senate rejected the latest series of harsh immigration measures. For once, the Arizona GOP said no to their leader, State Sen. Russell Pearce, who wanted to enact a package that has been called SB 1070 on steroids...
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Since Christmas, Mario Aregullin has been sitting in a Georgia detention center. Though he's been in the United States since he was a baby, he was forced to spend Christmas, New Year's, and Valentine's Day away from his family, friends, and his bride-to-be, Brandi.
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Today, Politico reports on new polling of Latinos in California that confirms those fears. There's not a lot of love for Republicans.
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This week, we reported how Kansas State Representative Virgil Peck suggested shooting immigrants from helicopters as a way to control the border.
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In the weeks and months after Arizona's infamous Senate Bill 1070 became law last year, no shortage of commentators predicted that "Arizona fever" would sweep the nation, spawning copycat immigration bills in every corner of the US. In some states, this happened; stringent anti-immigration bills are winding their...
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We need a coherent, responsible policy, and we're collecting signatures asking the White House to stop deporting DREAMers. We'll hand-deliver the petition to the White House, so please sign your name to tell our leaders in Washington, DC, that we'll continue to fight for the Dream Act.
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Via Adam Serwer at the American Prospect, we learn that Mark Krikorian's organization has jumped on the "Terror Baby" bandwagon – with a "laughably debunkable" report.
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The claim by Rep. Elton Gallegly (R-CA), the chair of the House Immigration Subcommittee, that he is focused on "illegal" immigration was disabused at his latest hearing. Instead, the Chairman pitted native-born workers against foreign-born workers (plenty of whom are citizens). We also learned something about the GOP's...
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New Census data on the growth of the Hispanic population continues to underscore the importance of this group in our national fabric -- and to the electoral map.
Take Arizona for example: the Hispanic population grew 46% in the last decade and we now constitute 30% of the population of...
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