Oct 5, 2010
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is opposing a court ruling that lets other countries file a friend-of-the-court brief in her appeal of a decision that put parts of the state's new immigration law on hold.
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By 2013, according to an Obama administration plan, everyone in the United States who is arrested and fingerprinted will undergo an immigration check.
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More illegal immigrants with criminal convictions are being deported in recent years, driving up the number of people being removed from the United States, according to data from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) recently introduced the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2010. It includes the Uniting American Families Act, which allows citizens to sponsor their same-sex partners, and the DREAM Act.
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Immigrant rights advocates claim recent events have reignited Latino voters' support for Obama and other Democrats who they think will be more likely to deliver comprehensive immigration reform in the future.
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The dust-up over Republican Meg Whitman's undocumented housekeeper may be driving defections among the small group of Latino voters who were inclined to support the former eBay chief's gubernatorial campaign.
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Whitman made herself into a very large target at UC Davis when she declared: "We do have to hold employers accountable for hiring only documented workers, and we do have to enforce that law."
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Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) defended his introduction of an immigration bill as an opportunity for lawmakers to take up the legislation either in the lame-duck session or in the next Congress.
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Rep. Brian Bilbray, R-Solana Beach, gave immigrant rights groups more verbal fodder recently when he said that politicians who endorse bills legalizing illegal immigrants were complicit in the bloody massacre of 72 migrants killed by smugglers.
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Oct 2, 2010
Congress, or at least one subcommittee, finally heard a thoughtful discussion about immigration.
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