Sep 19, 2011
More than 100,000 people across the United States have joined an immigration drive began by Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, a Filipino who admitted to being an illegal immigrant in the US. "I am overwhelmed by the response."
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The Dream Sabbath campaign started Sunday nationally by faith leaders will push for legalization for thousands of undocumented immigrants brought illegally to the United States as children.
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A growing chorus of conservatives is hammering a Republican proposal requiring businesses to verify the legal status of the workers they hire. The conservative critics – including Republican lawmakers, Tea Party groups and border-state governors – are airing a long string of complaints.
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As technology grows more sophisticated and the American government and its corporate allies further refine their methods of keeping tabs on citizens, those of us who treasure privacy increasingly find ourselves engaged in a struggle to maintain our freedoms in the midst of the modern surveillance state.
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A bill to make the electronic employment verification system E-Verify mandatory for all employers is poised to be used for purposes well beyond immigration, warn experts, conservative, liberal and libertarian alike. The concern is based on not just what is in the bill but what is left out.
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The United States is home to 11 million illegal immigrants. The undocumented hold jobs, have children, pay taxes, use government services — and too often live in fear. What is to be done about them? It's a difficult question, and one the Republican presidential candidates in the last two...
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Since the demise of the DREAM Act, immigration as a hot-button issue has simmered quietly in the Beltway background. Not anymore. Today, the House Judiciary Committee is holding a markup hearing on the Legal Workforce Act, a bill designed to make the use of E-Verify mandatory for all employers...
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A House Republican bill that would require businesses to screen for undocumented immigrants is facing a growing bloc of opposition -- even from within the GOP. At a Thursday markup of the bill, which would mandate the use of an electronic screening system called E-Verify, one member worried aloud...
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A task force advising an Obama administration deportation program has sharply criticized immigration officials for creating confusion about its purposes and has found that the program had an "unintended negative impact" on public safety in local communities.
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GOP presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman said today he's with his rival Rick Perry when it comes to providing in-state tuition to some children of illegal immigrants. "I don't want to punish young kids for the sins of their parents," said Huntsman, during an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer.
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