Aug 11, 2009
A contract with the federal government that pays Monmouth County $105 a day to incarcerate immigrants awaiting hearings and deportation is one of the highest rates among local jails and private prisons that hold thousands of such detainees, according to a survey of the contracts by the Associated Press.
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Under fire from immigration reform supporters who say he's not moving fast enough, President Barack Obama said Monday he expects to have a draft immigration bill in Congress by year's end — but that lawmakers wouldn't begin to seriously debate the issue until next year.
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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is attending a conference in Texas on border security. She sat down with a Times reporter Monday to discuss a number of issues, including the Mexican drug war, immigration detention in the U.S. and legislative reforms.
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Locked in a healthcare debate that is claiming much of his energy, President Obama acknowledged that a push to overhaul the nation's immigration system will have to wait until 2010 and even then will prove a major political test.
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Aug 10, 2009
As federal officials begin an overhaul of the widely criticized system used to incarcerate immigrants awaiting hearings and deportation, their challenge includes a deep inconsistency in the amount paid to a hastily assembled network of private prisons and local jails that hold thousands of such detainees.
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Perched at the edge of an exam table, Delmira Maravilla is anxious for a check-up — and for a timeline on the president's promise of health care for all Americans.
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Aug 8, 2009
Under section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, the Federal Government can authorize certain local law enforcement agencies to enforce Federal immigration laws. The 287(g) program makes it easier for local police officials to scapegoat the poor under the shadow of legality. The most extreme abuses are in...
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President Barack Obama said on Friday he expects Congress to overhaul the country's immigration system, an issue that fires up emotions on both sides of the political divide, by "early next year."
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At a "vote watch" party held by Latino activists at a hotel bar a few blocks from the Capitol, news of the final Senate tally clinching Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation to the Supreme Court set off whoops and cheers, followed by sustained chants of "Sí, se puede! Sí, se puede!"...
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Hispanics are more than 15 percent of the population, but they have less than four percent of the lawyers, and only three percent of the judges.
Thursday, Sonia Sotomayor took the nation's Latinos across a new threshold.
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