The recent death of an immigrant who was detained at the Suffolk County House of Correction is a tragic display of the human rights crisis in the Massachusetts detention system for immigrants facing deportation.
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The House is steaming toward a historic vote on President Barack Obama's remake of the U.S. health care system, with Democratic leaders increasingly confident and the powerful seniors' lobby AARP about to get on board.
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Nov 4, 2009
Sam Mejia-Reyes and Elida Perez offer a case study on why this nation needs immigration reform. They have lived and worked in the United States since they fled Guatemala with an infant son in 1992. They saved up enough money to buy a house in Novato several years ago....
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The debate over health care for illegal immigrants continues to percolate in Congress despite the Obama administration's efforts to put it to rest, with lawmakers in both houses also wrangling over how much coverage to provide for immigrants who have settled in the country legally.
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Liberals and a collection of minority Democrats pressed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday to allow undocumented immigrants to purchase insurance through the exchanges created in the party's health care bill.
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On this week's Reliable Sources, Howard Kurtz struck back at CNN cohort Lou Dobbs. Dobbs had claimed earlier in the week that he and his wife had been shot at in their New Jersey home, in part due to the "national liberal media" and its coverage in the...
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Immigrant children in Utah are growing in number, but fewer than some people think are here with undocumented parents. And many are suffering financially and have less opportunity because of continuing ill will toward Mexican immigrants, legal or not.
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Police officers giving drivers $204 tickets for not speaking English? It sounds like a rejected Monty Python sketch. Except the grim reality is that it has happened at least 39 times in Dallas since January 2007, according to The Dallas Morning News. At least six officers in several different...
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Organizacion Maya K'iche is preparing a petition that the women and their friends and family members can put their names to, if they decide that's what they want to do.
The petition asks President Barack Obama and the Bay State congressmen to enact a new immigration law that will provide...
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Nov 2, 2009
Ben Reed was once a conservative shock jock in his native Idaho. But meeting and falling in love with a Mexican national brought about a change in philosophy. They now live in Mexico.
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