Mar 27, 2012
Hispanics are the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population and a critical swing vote in national elections. There are now more Hispanic U.S. residents than African-Americans, and this group's projected growth rate greatly exceeds native-born blacks and non-Hispanic whites.
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Florida's now-infamous Stand Your Ground law, which lets you shoot someone you consider threatening without facing arrest, let alone prosecution, sounds crazy — and it is. And it's tempting to dismiss this law as the work of ignorant yahoos. But similar laws have been pushed across the nation, not...
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Just when it seemed that Georgia was coming to grips with the damage caused by HB 87, the state's Arizona-inspired anti-immigrant law, some lawmakers are again attempting to rush through new measures that would further marginalize and exclude immigrants from our community.
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Rep. Lamar Smith and his anti-immigrant colleagues are opening another front in the war on women. With the help of Tony Perkins from the Family Research Council, they're targeting women in detention – including undocumented immigrants, mothers, lawful permanent residents, survivors of torture, asylum seekers, and pregnant women.
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Rep. Lamar Smith and his anti-immigrant colleagues are opening another front in the war on women. With the help of Tony Perkins from the Family Research Council, they're targeting women in detention – including undocumented immigrants, mothers, lawful permanent residents, survivors of torture, asylum seekers, and pregnant women.
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Rep. Lamar Smith and his anti-immigrant colleagues are opening another front in the war on women. With the help of Tony Perkins from the Family Research Council, they're targeting women in detention – including undocumented immigrants, mothers, lawful permanent residents, survivors of torture, asylum seekers, and pregnant women.
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Last June, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton outlined criteria for prosecutorial discretion in a memo, which called on ICE officials to consider a range of factors in determining whether an individual should be deported or not.
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In the aftermath of the Trayvon Martin shooting and Florida's newly infamous Stand Your Ground law, many are beginning to look into the source of the law—the secretive, low-profile, highly influential American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).
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In the aftermath of the Trayvon Martin shooting and Florida's newly infamous Stand Your Ground law, many are beginning to look into the source of the law—the secretive, low-profile, highly influential American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).
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The illegal reentry of a previously deported immigrant is one the principal rationales for deportations conducted under the Obama administration. Many of these cases could fall under the new policy of prosecutorial discretion but, for some reason, they are not considered in this category.
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