Three recent polls of Latino voters show how the current immigration debate—including the national attention to Arizona's anti-immigrant law—has dramatically influenced Latino voters' view of political candidates, as well as their propensity to vote in November.
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Eva Longoria, Rosario Dawson, and Wilmer Valderrama are using their star-power to speak out against Arizona's controversial immigration law and are encouraging young voters to storm the polls on election day in November.
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The Catholic tradition often speaks of the "dignity of the human person," and we hear it so often that it's easy to lose sight of the pressing urgency and implications of this mandate.
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Records show that about 47,000 people have been removed or deported from the U.S. after the Homeland Security Department sifted through 3 million sets of fingerprints taken from bookings at local jails
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La Opinión, the largest Spanish-language daily paper in the US, joins the chorus of those calling on Congress to pass the DREAM Act, as the Obama Administration affirms its commitment to the bill. Pro-immigrant groups continue to criticize Congress for passing another border bill instead of a real...
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If dealing with the thousands of youths in the U.S. illegally were a midterm exam, there's hardly an answer the Obama administration could give that would be seen universally as the right one.
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As Matt Bai recalled in his New York Times column this weekend, President George W. Bush wanted a part of his political legacy to be expanding Republicans' appeal to nonwhites, in particular among Latinos.
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Aug 9, 2010
Following the nationwide outpouring of activism that led to one Arizona "DREAMer," Marlen Moreno, being permitted to stay in the US with her family for another year, the front page of the New York Times today tells the story of DREAMers being spared deportation time and time again when...
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The push by congressional Republicans to deny automatic citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants has opened up a split in the GOP, with several former Bush administration officials warning that the party could lose its claim to one of its proudest legacies: the 14th Amendment.
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Various outlets in the Spanish-language press write follow-up stories on the bill that passed the Senate last week allocating $600 million for 1,500 more border troops and unmanned surveillance drones, among other things. Not to be outdone, Republicans continue to discuss abolishing birthright citizenship, drawing continued criticism from advocates...
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