The nation's immigration system is broken and taking a toll on police and sheriff's departments trying to build trust between law enforcement and immigrant communities, some police leaders said Thursday.
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For the most part, it's been a good week for immigration reform. The Senate approved a measure that will end the "Widow Penalty," which rescinded applications for U.S. residency if one's spouse of two years or less years dies, and on Tuesday, as RaceWire reports, the San Francisco Board...
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Some of us first heard of Hota Ferschke, a Japanese widow of American soldier, Sergeant Michael Ferschke, at the immigration reform rally held here in Washington DC, last Tuesday, October 13.
Her story was one of many heart-wrenching examples of our nation's broken immigration system – something she and her...
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A 49-year-old immigration detainee who died at a Boston hospital Monday was apparently working as a Providence taxi driver when Rhode Island State Police stopped him for speeding last year, and turned him over to immigration authorities o.n an outstanding deportation warrant, according to Capt. David Neill.
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Pointing to a steep drop in the number of immigrants applying for U.S. citizenship since federal processing fees were raised two years ago, immigrant advocates in Chicago called on U.S. officials Wednesday not to raise them again in the face of a looming budget shortfall.
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Crystal Dillman says she will never understand why a group of teenage boys beat her fiancé to death.
She says she will spend the rest of her life seeking answers -- and justice -- for the man she has lost as she struggles alone to raise her three young...
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CNN will broadcast a series about the Hispanic presence in the United States which, despite the complaints of Latino groups around the country, omits the anti-immigrant drive of one of the network's own stars, commentator Lou Dobbs.
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Ronda Racha Penrice sums up much of the controversy we posted on earlier this evening in "Will movement to remove Lou Dobbs overshadow Soledad O'Brien's Latino in America at CNN?" "For many Latinos, CNN's Latino in America is not their primary concern; Lou Dobbs is... Many within the Latino...
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The mounting efforts (including our "Drop Dobbs" TV ad) underway to hold CNN accountable for Lou Dobbs are clearly having an impact. In their coverage of CNN's "Latino in America" series, the Associated Press reports: "CNN is airing a four-hour special on Latinos in America this week that ignores...
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Yesterday, on a vote of 79-19 on the conference report on the Department of Homeland Security Fiscal Year 2010 Appropriations bill , the Senate repealed the "widow penalty" – a measure that was enacted 71 years ago, prohibiting a widowed, foreign spouse to file for citizenship (for themselves and...
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