The Republican presidential debates have certainly generated a conversation about immigration reform. However, within Republican circles, that conversation has gotten ugly and divisive. But, as an editorial in USA Today makes clear, that is the wrong approach.
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Front page on the Washington Post today is a heart-breaking story of an undocumented mother of three, and her struggle to stay in the country in the wake of a deportation order that would force her on a plane to Guatemala within 24 hours.
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In a Saturday editorial, the Wall Street Journal asked why aren't politicians happy – or noticing – illegal entry into the Untied States appears to be much lower than at any time in recent memory?
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The Republican Party has dug itself an awfully deep hole with Latino voters. And every time a Republican talks about immigration, the hole gets a little deeper. That includes nearly all the 2012 Republican presidential candidates. They can't avoid talking about the subject because it keeps coming up in...
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Between talk-radio blather and election-season bravado, it's easy to have an opinion about immigration, and easier to forget that people—actual people—pick our food. Now and then we might glimpse them out the car window, but few of us realize that what we eat depends on them, and fewer still...
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She had spent her final week praying for one outcome while preparing for another. With five days left before she was supposed to leave the United States, Paula Godoy explained to her three children what it meant to be deported. With three days left, she packed her clothes and...
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Lost in the Congressional debates between opponents and proponents of the Dream Act are two mutually reinforcing truths. First, America's failed immigration system is the flip side of a failed foreign policy.
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The crimes were neither violent nor unique, but the Montgomery County investigators who looked into reports of car vandalism were troubled nonetheless by what they found. One Hispanic man reported in July 2010 that his tires had been slashed 20 times over four years.
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It's an issue that has farmers fired up, and many wondering what will happen to Alabama's produce industry. "If we can't get the food out of the ground and to the store then it goes to waste," says one farmer. "I guess they'll have to arrest me here in...
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Sep 23, 2011
During last night's Republican presidential debate, Governor Rick Perry (R-TX) came under fire from other candidates about his support for in-state tuition for undocumented young people in Texas, and perhaps because of this many commentators continue to characterize Perry as a moderate on the issue.
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