The ACLU of Virginia warned the state's police chiefs and sheriffs not to follow Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's legal opinion, issued this week, that says law enforcement can ask the immigration status of anyone stopped by police officers for any reason.
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The U.S. Senate approved $600 million in emergency funding to help secure the U.S.-Mexican border on Thursday, on the eve of the Senate's summer recess and ahead of an election season in which immigration and border security are shaping up as major issues.
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Aug 4, 2010
She beat Poizner by 38 points on June 8, but the damage was done.
"What Steve Poizner did was remind all the Latinos why they haven't voted Republican for the past 16 years," said Allan Hoffenblum, publisher of the California Target Book and a former political director for the state...
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While the most controversial elements of Arizona's immigration law have been placed on hold, some illegal immigrants in the state are deciding it's time to leave. In nearby Colorado, the American Friends Service Committee says more than a dozen families have arrived in just the past few weeks.
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First they were canceling in protest of the state's new immigration law. But now the reason organizations are avoiding Arizona for their conferences and conventions may be strictly business.
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Senator Lindsey Graham took some by surprise when he called for eliminating birthright citizenship and changing the 14th Amendment -- and Lou Dobbs took even more by surprise when he opposed Graham's idea.
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Republicans may be calling for hearings into revising the 14th amendment, which guarantees citizenship to children of illegal immigrants, but it looks like they're not going to get 'em.
Russ Feingold, who chairs the Constitution Subcommittee, which would conduct the hearings, has "no plans" to allow them to go forward,...
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The message was that Arizona cannot have its own immigration or foreign policy. It cannot tell the federal government how to enforce its laws.
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Leading Republicans are joining a push to reconsider the constitutional amendment that grants automatic citizenship to people born in the United States.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said Tuesday he supports holding hearings on the 14th Amendment right, although he emphasized that Washington's immigration focus should remain on...
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America is fighting a border war. With itself.
U.S. President Barack Obama and his attorneys last week won a major battle. A judge overturned portions of a controversial new law in the southern state of Arizona aimed at fighting illegal immigration.
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