Republicans may be calling for hearings into revising the 14th amendment, which guarantees citizenship to children of illegal immigrants, but it looks like they're not going to get 'em.
Russ Feingold, who chairs the Constitution Subcommittee, which would conduct the hearings, has "no plans" to allow them to go forward,...
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My name is Marlen Moreno and I am undocumented. I am also a possible beneficiary of the DREAM Act. On Sunday, August 8, I will be deported.
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The message was that Arizona cannot have its own immigration or foreign policy. It cannot tell the federal government how to enforce its laws.
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Leading Republicans are joining a push to reconsider the constitutional amendment that grants automatic citizenship to people born in the United States.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said Tuesday he supports holding hearings on the 14th Amendment right, although he emphasized that Washington's immigration focus should remain on...
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America is fighting a border war. With itself.
U.S. President Barack Obama and his attorneys last week won a major battle. A judge overturned portions of a controversial new law in the southern state of Arizona aimed at fighting illegal immigration.
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Tomasa Bulux speaks Spanish to her children, maintains an altar at home representing her Mayan culture's view of the world and meets once a week with Mayan immigrants who speak her indigenous Quiche tongue.
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According to their Boycott Intolerance website, the major Latino advocacy group NCLR has raised the funds needed to inform "millions of people who pass through Times Square each day about the dangers of Arizona's new immigration law," SB 1070.
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While the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office and the FBI investigate whether a Mexican drug cartel has placed a $1 million price on Sheriff Joe Arpaio's head, Phoenix's Hispanic community continues to live in fear day in and day out, while in Staten Island police are making arrests in the...
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Scheduled to take effect only last week, enforcement of Arizona's new anti-immigration law was largely enjoined by a federal judge in Phoenix. The court order will have a number of effects, both expected and unexpected.
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From Phoenix to Philadelphia, Republican candidates are pandering to their base, proposing to round up and kick out illegal immigrants. Meantime, even as it deports far more undocumented workers than its predecessor, the Obama administration and its allies seek to frighten Hispanics into voting Democratic.
For the voters and politicians,...
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