A Miami-based Hispanic group is mounting a national campaign against conservative CNN talk-show host Lou Dobbs, urging the network to restrain what they call ``his disparaging and inaccurate'' remarks about Hispanic immigrants.
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Sep 20, 2009
Immigration reform has become one of the most controversial topics in the political agenda here in the United States of America. However, very few people can agree on a reason why. The issue, in fact, is very basic.
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Local and state representatives joined religious leaders, union representatives, workers and residents to address immigration reform during a community forum on Sept. 19 at the Queen of Peace Church in Aurora.
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Last month the Obama administration announced that it was going to overhaul immigration detention, to impose accountability and safety on a system notoriously deficient in both. This month, the official chosen to lead the effort, Dora Schriro, announced that she was leaving Washington to become the commissioner of correction...
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Los Angeles religious leaders have launched a phone campaign to urge lawmakers to include undocumented immigrants in any healthcare reform plan.
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The last immigrant families have departed a disparaged former Texas prison that housed them while they awaited decisions in immigration cases, federal officials said Friday.
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Sep 18, 2009
Government auditors reported Thursday that the effort to secure the Mexican border with technology and fences has fallen years behind schedule, will cost billions of dollars extra in maintenance costs and has no clear means of gauging whether illegal crossings have been curtailed.
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They battled adversity and overcame oppression.
In traveling to America they sought opportunity and freedom. While so many lifelong Americans have grown tired of debating health reform and economic stability, these 504 new Americans can't wait to join the debate.
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An academic study of the Criminal Alien Program in Irving released Wednesday by a California law school said there is "strong evidence" that Irving police racially profiled Hispanics and probably referred lawful residents to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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United States citizenship is a privilege for foreign nationals able to access it, and a necessity for immigrants who want to make a home in this country. It is the instrument allowing active participation in the political process instead of passive observation of decisions made by others.
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