The American Civil Liberties Union has released government documents containing 185 allegations of sexual abuse against female immigration detainees in federal detention centers since 2007. The documents, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, include detailed narratives by three women who describe sexual assaults by guards while the detainees...
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Last weekend in Tennessee, Herman Cain boasted that as President, he'd build a fence along the U.S.-Mexican border "20-feet high, with barbed wire, and electrified." The crowd applauded, and in an interview a day later, Cain shrugged the whole thing off as "a joke." He might come to regret...
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Rick Perry's most pointed attack against Mitt Romney in Tuesday night's debate concerned an immigration matter that came to light when Mr. Romney was campaigning for president four years ago.
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A leading House Democrat is taking GOP presidential contender Herman Cain to task for suggesting an electric border fence would be the country's best defense against illegal immigrants. Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-Texas) accused Cain on Tuesday of "spewing hate" and inciting violence without offering any real solution to the...
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In 2012, President Obama will run at the top of the Democratic ticket, so for the time being, the Republicans are alone in showing the nation their pathologies in a series of strange televised encounters that we agree to call debates. Tuesday night's installment had Anderson Cooper guest starring...
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With the occupations sweeping the country, the failure of the jobs bill and an alleged assassination plot against the Saudi ambassador, the shocking news out of Alabama in the last few weeks has passed – with notable exceptions including the Guardian's own coverage – without much comment.
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The Obama administration set a new record for deportations, removing nearly 400,000 undocumented immigrants in the last fiscal year, Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced on Tuesday.
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A Mexican consulate official in Washington who is monitoring the fallout from the state's tough new immigration law told me recently that, as school administrators were initially trying to determine the legal status of students, some principals were going into elementary-school classes and telling kids: "Raise your hand if...
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Oct 18, 2011
After first apologizing for suggesting an electric fence along the border, Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain told reporters here Monday that he still thinks it's a good idea for controlling illegal immigration. "I'm not walking away from that," he said.
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Presidential candidate Herman Cain is catching heat from Hispanic advocacy groups for suggesting the U.S. construct an "electrified" border fence to keep out illegal immigrants. Though Cain said afterward he was just kidding, the group America's Voice put out a statement Monday calling it "no laughing matter."
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