Jan 25, 2010
More than six out of 10 Americans believe U.S. troops and relief workers should remain in Haiti until life is more or less back to normal, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll released Monday found.
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Jan 24, 2010
A day after being released from federal custody in Pennsylvania, a Haitian immigrant whose detention in December touched off protests told supporters at a Manhattan church on Sunday that he was so close to being deported this month that friends were waiting for him at the airport in Port-au-Prince.
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Jan 23, 2010
Sometimes conventional wisdom is wrong.
That's how it is with the assumption that Republican Scott Brown's victory over Democrat Martha Coakley in the Massachusetts Senate race means that there will be no immigration reform this year.
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The Maryland Hispanic population has increased by at least 65 percent since the 2000 Census, contributing to increasing ethnic diversity nationally, according to a new U.S. Census Bureau report.
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Congressional Democrats are anxiously anticipating President Barack Obama's State of the Union address on Wednesday as they look to him to reverse a precipitous political slide that has endangered their majorities and helped revive the GOP.
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Even before Senator-elect Scott P. Brown is sworn in, Massachusetts political groups are starting to call on him to back specific policies in Washington.
The Springfield-based Alliance to Develop Power, a community organization that advocates social and economic justice, will hold a press conference Friday to call on Brown to...
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Jan 21, 2010
The first time I saw her, I was ordering a pizza. Mariam Sarkisian was a teenager helping her father, who owned the place, a typical pizzeria in a mall in the suburbs of Henderson five or six years ago.
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The immigrant station's past underscores America's contradictory approach to immigration: The U.S. welcomes the 'huddled masses yearning to be free' even as it unfairly detains and deports newcomers.
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New census figures that provide a snapshot of America's foreign-born population are challenging conventional views of immigration, race and ethnicity.
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Haitians living in the United States started applying Thursday for a government program offering qualified immigrants the chance to legally remain in the country and get work permits.
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