The UAW, civil rights groups and other unions have begun targeting Honda Motor Co., Hyundai Motor Co. and Daimler AG to help overturn a controversial new immigration law in Alabama, where the automakers operate assembly plants.
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In 2008, Barack Obama promised Hispanics that, if elected, he would make immigration reform a top priority. He broke that promise and went to the other extreme by deporting more than 1.2 million illegal immigrants and breaking up hundreds of thousands of families.
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In "Batman Begins" — the 2005 movie about the origins of the caped crusader — there is a group of villains who believe the city of Gotham is beyond saving and that the only way to fix it is to first destroy it.
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In a time enforcement programs like Secure Communities are splitting apart families, and anti-immigrant legislation -- like HB 56 and SB 1070 -- are assisting in the GOP strategy of "self-deportation", Baltimore City's Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is heeding fair warnings and going down a different path.
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According to a new poll from FOX News, "Latino voters favor President Barack Obama by six-to-one over any of the Republican presidential hopefuls." None of the GOP hopefuls garner more than 14% of the Latino vote against Obama.
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In 2008, our Executive Director, Frank Sharry, had an idea. 'There will be a new president in November,' he thought. 'With change will come another opportunity to pursue something this country desperately needs—comprehensive immigration reform.'
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The battle for the crucial Latino vote is escalating. Three of the largest Hispanic groups in the nation have launched countrywide voter registration and education drives, but they're facing a new set of powerful obstacles.
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At the Feb. 22 Republican presidential debate in downtown Mesa, Mitt Romney said an Arizona law offered "a model" for national illegal-immigration policy. But which state statute was the former Massachusetts governor talking about?
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Alabama's laws cracking down on illegal immigration have become a new focus for a nearly two-decade-old civil rights march. Organizers expect thousands to participate in the crossing of the Selma bridge for the 47th anniversary of the 1965 incident when peaceful demonstrators were attacked by police in what...
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Over the weekend, 18-year-old Daniela Pelaez continued her effort to fight a deportation order to her native Colombia from an immigration judge. On Sunday, Pelaez, the valedictorian of her North Miami Senior High class and her attorney Nera Shefer, appeared on Michael Putney's This Week in South Florida. Pelaez,...
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