On Wednesday, a flight is leaving for India and President Obama's immigration officials want Mandeep -- a DREAM Act student -- on it, despite the fact that she was once voted as "Most Likely to Save the World" by her peers at Los Altos High School in Mountain View.
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Facing a barrage of criticism from some Democratic governors, members of Congress and local officials, the Obama administration is altering a controversial federal program in which law enforcement agencies share fingerprints of suspects held in local jails with U.S. immigration authorities.
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One early morning two weeks ago, Christopher Zambrano was biking home on the 79th Street Causeway near North Bay Village when one of several men in black clothes riding in an SUV ordered him to stop.
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With many local governments and states insisting they want out, the Obama administration says it is working to improve Secure Communities, its troubled data-sharing program that pushes local police to the front lines of immigration enforcement.
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Last week's Postdoc Conference and Career Fair for science and technology researchers had all the staples common at a recruiting event. Potential employers sat at folding tables, panelists discussed entrepreneurial endeavors and editors offered resume writing tips.
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By some estimates, nearly a million young people in this country are living in a kind of immigration limbo. The United States is the only home many of them have known, but because they were brought here illegally as children by their parents, they live in fear of deportation.
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Republicans in Congress have launched a major offensive to force several million undocumented immigrants to leave the United States with a bill that would make it mandatory for U.S. employers to electronically verify workers' legal status. It sounds like a reasonable idea, but the way they want to do...
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Jun 17, 2011
Today, Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced that it is establishing an advisory board to review the Secure Communities deportation program, and implementing new guidance throughout the field on prosecutorial discretion.
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Morning, folks. Liveblogging this morning from Netroots Nation where our panel, Immigration and the Power of the Latino Vote: Why Harry Reid Came Back and Alex Sink Sunk has just started. On stage is Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), Markos Moulitsas from Daily Kos, and Paco Fabian from Change to...
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Here's the livestream from our panel at Netroots Nation, Immigration and the Power of the Latino Vote: Why Harry Reid Came Back and Alex Sink Sunk with Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), Markos Moulitsas from Daily Kos, and Paco Fabian from Change to Win.
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