Sep 8, 2010
So te immigration debate has you confused and frustrated? Arnold Torres has it all figured out. "Those of us who have done this before can see every move two steps before it's made," he told me.
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In April 2010 I packed my clothes in two bags and left my family and friends in California to work full time for the DREAM Act, a bill that you know well, and for which I have waited for many years. At that time I had nowhere to live...
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Sep 7, 2010
FOR a man facing the possibility of up to 30 years in prison, almost $4 million in fines and the government seizure of his small French restaurant here, Michel Malecot has an unusually jovial and serene air
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In the Spanish-language press this morning, the president of El Salvador suggests that after extending Temporary Protected Status for Salvadorans in the U.S. for the seventh time, the federal government might consider giving them a path to permanent status. Meanwhile, La Opinión (Los Angeles) calls out Sheriff Joe Arpaio...
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The Justice Department has brought yet another legal challenge against Arizona, accusing the Maricopa County Community College District in Phoenix of illegally asking foreign nationals to show their Permanent Resident Cards, or "green cards," before being offered jobs in the 10-college system.
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Welcome back from the Labor Day weekend! Here's what you may have missed while tending to the grill: Straight from the Wild Wild Southwest, Arizona's Gov. finally fesses up to her "headless bodies" fib. See Jan Brewer Admits She Was Wrong About Beheadings (via Think Progress): "Months after...
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Sep 6, 2010
A handwritten sign on the door of the Naperville church announces the event where Matthew Soerens, fluent in Spanish, the Bible and the nation's immigration laws, will try to win converts.
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A concession by the nation's immigration authorities is a win, no doubt. But the battle over what should have been a no-brainer demonstrates we still have a ways to go before we have an effective policy for dealing with immigration.
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For some Border Patrol agents, boredom has replaced illegal immigration as Public Enemy No. 1. That is a good thing, said Chris Van Wagenen, a supervisory agent, as he steered his SUV past cotton fields near the Colorado River in late August.
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A claim by Arizona's governor that rising violence along the U.S.-Mexico border has led to headless bodies turning up in the desert came back to haunt her during a stammering debate performance in which she failed to back it up.
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