The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced last week that it had broken its own record for deportations, affirming the Obama administration's zeal for heavy-handed immigration enforcement. According to the announcement, deportations have increased by 70 percent since the Bush administration, totaling 392,000 in fiscal year 2010.
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The issue of immigration reform is likely to be discussed in tonight's debate between Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) and Republican Senate nominee Sharron Angle. In a close race like this, Latino voters are poised to play a pivotal role in deciding the eventual outcome.
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Today America's Voice hosted a press call to highlight various "Get Out the Vote" efforts, totalling more than $5.4 million, to engage and mobilize over one million Latino, Asian, and immigrant voters in a number of battleground states-- just in time for the mid-term elections.
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Check out America's Voice new weekly resource, "Immigration Insider," which takes an in-depth look at immigration politics, leading up to the November election.
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As of 2008, New Americans were one in ten of all registered voters in the country. That's 15 million registered voters.
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The three men vying to become Colorado's next governor spent much of an hour-long debate Wednesday on illegal immigration.
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Education officials in Georgia voted Wednesday to bar illegal immigrants from attending the state's five most selective public colleges, a decision that immigrant rights groups threatened to challenge in court.
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Too many people fought too hard to make sure all citizens of all colors, races, ethnicities, genders, and abilities can vote to think that not voting somehow sends a message.
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It should be no surprise that illegal immigration is one of the primary means by which the U.S. economy gains access to low-skilled, low-cost labor.
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In one of the uglier developments of the 2010 mid-terms, Idaho Democratic Congressman Walt Minnick is lashing out at his Latino Republican opponent, Raul Labrador, for being "soft" on immigration.
Labrador, an immigration attorney and Republican state legislator who has been endorsed by Sheriff Joe Arpaio, can hardly be called...
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