Oct 24, 2010
Gubernatorial candidates looking for an edge in the down-to-the-wire campaign are pulling out all the stops to lure Bay State Latino voters — a growing voting bloc that could cast the key ballot in a neck-and-neck election.
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When Rohan Coombs joined the U.S. Marine Corps, he never thought one day he would be locked up in an immigration detention center and facing deportation from the country he had vowed to defend.
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Oct 21, 2010
In May, as the federal government increased deportations and some states sought to tighten immigration enforcement, Gov. David A. Paterson caused a national stir by announcing a state effort to speed the granting of pardons to immigrants facing deportation for old or minor criminal convictions.
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This year, Latino voters like many voters, are angry and anxious. But they aren't stupid...Latinos know that staying home doesn't shift power; it concedes power.
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Leslie, a history major at the University of California at Los Angeles and an aspiring marathon runner with three part-time jobs and plans for grad school, keeps a neatly folded dark blue T-shirt in her closet among her jeans and her U.C.L.A. Bruins sweatshirt.
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Turn on the television in any state near the border with Mexico, and before long you'll see a Republican campaign ad that looks something like this one: "I'm standing in New Mexico," the candidate says, "and on the other side of that fence is the murder capital of the...
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Perhaps more than any other campaign in the country, Republicans and Democrats are betting that race could be the trump card in Nevada.
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Latinos are being targeted with a lie: that the best strategy to achieve their goal is to stop participating in the democratic process. But that approach cannot and will not work. No group in the United States has ever forwarded its political agenda by auto-disenfranchisement.
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New York - few would dispute - is a city of immigrants. That's what makes it so difficult to understand the city's collaboration with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement to deport thousands of innocent people and cruelly divide families.
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Oct 20, 2010
Sharron Angle did not show up at the huge Tea Party Express rally in Las Vegas on Tuesday night. But the event was almost entirely in support of her and the divisive, anti-immigrant platform she has promoted in her accelerating drive to replace Senator Harry Reid.
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