The Obama administration must be gearing up for a long fight in federal court after immigrant and civil rights groups filed a slew of lawsuits this month. The claims seek to gain class-action status and challenge a wide swath of policies.
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Some are in the country illegally. But many others are women of means who enter the country legally as tourists and pay cash to deliver babies at hospitals in Nogales, Yuma and Tucson.
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U.S. IMMIGRATION and Customs Enforcement deported people who had no criminal history and posed no threat to the public or national security, according to a report by the American Immigration Lawyers Association.
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A program that is central to President Obama's immigration enforcement strategy has drawn protests by Latino and immigrant organizations in six cities in the last two days, as those groups stepped up their confrontation with the administration over the fast pace of deportations.
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Because he has an immigrant-friendly past, you would think that Texas Gov. Rick Perry could easily challenge President Barack Obama for the Hispanic vote in the 2012 presidential election.
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Growing frustration with the nation's immigration policies drew about 70 protesters to President Barack Obama's Chicago campaign headquarters Tuesday to call for an end to Secure Communities.
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Spurred by public anger over illegal immigration and the example set by Arizona, states passed more than 100 immigration-related measures during the first half of this year.
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Hundreds gathered in Los Angeles on Monday night for a chance to address a federal task force that will propose changes to a controversial immigration enforcement program. Speaker after speaker at the lively meeting denounced the Secure Communities program.
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mmigrants who say they were hauled into jail for reporting being the victim of domestic violence had one message for a federal government task force assigned to review an information-sharing effort that gives immigration authorities access to the fingerprints of arrestees.
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A consortium of community advocates, political leaders and farmers launched a campaign this week called "Save America's Food and Economy," (SAFE) to protect farms and agriculture from the impact of H.R. 2164, otherwise known as the "Legal Workforce Act."
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