Two Maryland women facing deportation pleaded with a Homeland Security official Wednesday to end a program that gives federal immigration authorities access to fingerprints of people arrested. Speaking in Spanish, Maria Bolanos told Marc Rapp that she was arrested after calling police in Maryland during a fight with her...
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As a federal task force evaluating a key policy on immigration enforcement held its final public hearing in Arlington County on Wednesday night, critics of the controversial mandate were ramping up the pressure to end it.
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Activists say nine illegal immigrant students and their supporters were arrested in demonstrations at immigration offices in Los Angeles over a fingerprint sharing program. Youth activist Mohammad Abdollahi says five illegal immigrant students and graduates held a sit-in Wednesday at the building where federal officers ready immigrants for deportation.
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As he enters the Republican presidential race, Texas Gov. Rick Perry is striking some red-meat notes on the subject of immigration. Border security, he says, is a federal responsibility -- and immigration reform will have to wait until the border is secured.
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A federal judge said Alabama's immigration law requiring police officers to check immigrants' legal status might lead to lawsuits for unlawful detention. "There are a lot of problems with this statute," U.S. District Judge Sharon Blackburn in Birmingham, Alabama, said yesterday in a hearing on three lawsuits. "My job...
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Local and national immigration experts spoke on a call with reporters to relate stories and highlight concerns that Secure Communities and other police-immigration collaboration efforts are destroying the relationship between police and immigrants and making communities across the country less safe.
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This report uses examples from across the country to document the "chilling effect" that police-DHS collaboration has on immigrant crime victims and witnesses, and describes how programs like Secure Communities (S-Comm) actually make all of us less safe.
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Marking his first major speech outside of D.C. or Florida, Marco Rubio will speak tonight in California at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. Of course, some spectators can't help but make comparisons between Reagan and Rubio (high office aspirations and all).
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On a Sunday in June 2001, the first-year governor of Texas signed legislation allowing undocumented immigrants to attend Texas colleges and universities at in-state tuition rates instead of paying international fees. Supporters of the legislation called it the Texas Dream Act.
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I have been the most vocal and visible critic of President Obama in either party over his handling of the immigration issue. Since he took office, deportations have skyrocketed to more than 1,100 per day and over 1 million people have been deported.
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