NumbersUSA, an advocacy group dedicated solely to reducing all immigration in the United States, has a soul-searching question for the Republican presidential hopefuls: Where's the love? At a conservative conference last week organized by immigration hardliner Rep. Steve King (R), NumbersUSA was shocked to discover that the all...
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Change Takes Courage. That is the name of a national campaign launched Thursday to urge President Obama to act decisively to deliver relief to immigrant communities around the country. "Change takes courage" is also a not-too-subtle message to the President to exercise his leadership and fulfill the promises...
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A coalition of immigration-reform groups says a program that's supposed to catch illegal immigrants with criminal records is causing people who aren't criminals to be deported. About 1 in 4 people deported by the federal Secure Communities program had no criminal conviction, according to records obtained by the...
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Yesterday, the Obama Administration's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Labor Department finally agreed to work together to make sure the government's zeal to enforce immigration laws doesn't hurt labor enforcement efforts.
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GOP Congressman Lamar Smith has once again asserted himself as his party's leading strategist on the Latino vote. He's taking issue with Chris Cillizza's recent analysis of census numbers,"The Republican's Hispanic Problem." Smith, who supports mass deportation, is desperately trying to get his fellow Republicans deny the facts and...
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Hispanic families and immigrant advocates criticized President Barack Obama Thursday for failing to keep campaign promises to change the U.S. immigration system. The critics questioned Obama's recent comment that he could not use his executive order powers to suspend deportations because doing so "would not conform with my appropriate...
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Groups of immigrants along with Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) on Thursday presented the Change Takes Courage Campaign, in accord with which they will tour the United States to ask President Barack Obama for "justice" for the undocumented.
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The ACLU is suing Denver police, saying officers falsely accused a man of being an illegal immigrant, rejected his legal residency card as "fake" and jailed him for five days. Police also are accused of illegally searching the home of the man's Hispanic girlfriend, who is a U.S. citizen,...
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The next America is arriving ahead of schedule. And it could rattle assumptions about the coming presidential election. Last week's release of national totals from the 2010 census showed that the minority share of the population increased over the past decade in every state, reaching levels higher than demographers...
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A Capitol Hill press conference early this morning, hosted by Democratic Reps. Luis Gutierrez (IL), Mike Honda (CA), Raul Grijalva (AZ), Jan Schakowsky (IL), Keith Ellison (MN), and Judy Chu (CA) launched the "Campaign for American Children and Families," an immigration reform advocacy tour that will begin this weekend...
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