Sep 13, 2009
Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) may have said that Barack Obama was lying when he said the health care bill won't cover illegal immigrants, but the secretary of Health and Human Services said Sunday that opponents are drumming up a false debate over the issue.
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A class act he is not, but South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson's boorish behavior during President Obama's speech on health reform more than earned him his 15 minutes of infamy.
It is understandable that he chose - or as some suggested, was told - to bellow "You lie!" when the...
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An immigrant advocacy group plans to hold candlelight vigils in Freehold, Keyport and eight other towns in New Jersey Tuesday to support the rights of children who may be at risk of being separated from their families because of deportations or detentions.
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When Republican congressman Joe Wilson of South Carolina heckled President Obama during his address to a joint session of Congress this week, it was no surprise that the subject was immigration.
It's also no surprise that while the House Republican leadership demanded that Wilson apologize for his intemperance and breach...
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Sep 11, 2009
Republican Rep. Joe Wilson's shout of "You lie!" during President Obama's speech Wednesday night brought renewed attention to swirling questions about whether Democratic health-care legislation would extend coverage to illegal immigrants.
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I just got off the phone with Frank Sharry, Executive Director of the immigrant rights group America's Voice, who's not exactly pleased that Sens. Kent Conrad (D-ND) and Max Baucus (D-MT) are responding to the Joe Wilson scream incident by writing immigrant restrictions into health care legislation.
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Sep 10, 2009
For a year and a half Ms. Jiang, a waitress with no criminal record and a history of attempted suicide, was locked away in an immigration jail in Florida. Often in solitary confinement, she sank ever deeper into mental illness, relatives say, not eating for days, or vomiting after...
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In their tireless efforts to kill health-care reform, right-wingers have fanned fears that it would attract illegal aliens. This sideshow is rather twisted because, actually, the reforms would do the opposite. They would help curb illegal immigration.
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Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) says he's done apologizing for his outburst during President Barack Obama's prime-time speech Wednesday, but two House Democratic leaders are calling for a formal reprimand if Wilson continues to refuse to make a public statement of contrition on the House floor.
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At her department's sprawling campus, Napolitano cautiously shared her thinking on a number of hot-button issues.
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