What began earlier this year as one young man's quest to stay in the U.S. has grown into a movement, with nearly 200 demonstrators rallying on behalf of Rigo Padilla in Chicago last week and faxes and text messages being sent to Washington with pleas to spare him from...
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First they were arrested and faced deportation under what has proven to be the Obama administration's only workplace raid. Then they were given work permits, and told they could stay in the United States while their employer was being prosecuted.
Now, the more than two dozen undocumented workers arrested during...
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Dec 4, 2009
Intensified pursuit and detention of undocumented immigrants has led Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to create a system of detention centers and a network of prison transfers. All of this is virtually without supervision or control and detrimental to detainees.
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Dec 3, 2009
Growing numbers of noncitizens, including legal immigrants, are held unnecessarily and transferred heedlessly in an expensive immigration detention system that denies many of them basic fairness, a bipartisan study group and a human rights organization concluded in reports released jointly on Wednesday.
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To many, it seems strange that I, an African-American minister from the Fifth Ward, would focus much of my energy and resources to work along with other leaders in our city for immigration reform. Yet I am a Christian and a disciple with the call to see Christ in...
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Americans for Legal Immigration PAC yanked its support for Lou Dobbs today, shutting down Web sites that promoted a presidential bid by the former CNN anchor.
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In a letter to Obama, CEOs of some 70 high-tech companies, including Intel, Microsoft Corp. and Dell Inc., urged the president to speed up stimulus spending and focus on policies that they feel can help spur long-term growth, such as promoting free trade and overhauling immigration rules to make...
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The Salvation Army says it will no longer ask for a parent's social security number before giving Christmas toys to children at some local branches.
Juan Alanis, a spokesman for the Salvation Army's Houston branch, says the charity changed its policy Wednesday following a protest by Hispanic immigrants in Los...
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A national immigrants rights group expressed concern Wednesday over a toy-distribution policy by the Salvation Army which it said could discourage some needy immigrant families from seeking free holiday presents.
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Nov 30, 2009
It's another expensive case of treating the symptoms and not the disease. U.S. officials Monday touted the completion of the first segment of a "virtual fence" along the U.S.-Mexican border and detailed their plans to continue building the expensive perimeter.
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