Aug 13, 2009
Latino leaders have long called for comprehensive immigration reform. During the presidential campaign, it finally seemed destined for reality as candidates sought the crucial Latino vote.
But today, where's immigration reform on the list of priorities?
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Aug 12, 2009
Last week the Obama administration announced reforms to an immigration detention system increasingly tainted by allegations of abuse. It is estimated that 300,000 non-citizens are held in detention each year, and that number continues to rise. As more immigrants enter the system, the government has been flooded with stories...
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Detained immigrant children and their families were expected to be out of a former Central Texas prison in the next few months, the Department of Homeland Security's special adviser on detention said Wednesday.
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After signing the Civil Rights Act in 1964, President Lyndon Johnson reportedly said Democrats were "signing away the South for 50 years." The Republican Party can only hope that the 31 Republican senators who voted against making federal judge Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic U.S. Supreme Court justice, did...
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Netroots Nation is right around the corner and this year's conference will kick off in Pittsburgh, PA tomorrow!
We're excited here at America's Voice. Not only are we sending eight, talented, immigration bloggers to the conference with a new scholarship program, we've also got some talented members of our own...
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Not that this is surprising to those of us working on immigration issues, who've been documenting this kind of anti-immigrant extremism for years, but it is disturbing to watch it caught on tape. Consider This News' Peter Daou reports on a recent New Hampshire townhall protest where one demonstrator...
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By Guest Blogger Mario Quiroz, from CASA de Maryland: "Delay may be business as usual in Washington, but Baltimore isn't having it. Yesterday evening, amidst news that President Obama now sees immigration reform delayed until 2010, the Baltimore City Council passed a resolution-- the first like it in Maryland--...
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently expanded 287(g), a law that gives local officials the authority to act as federal agents in the enforcement of immigration laws. 287(g) has a number of serious implications.
One, it takes valuable resources away from law enforcement agencies that are trying to catch...
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A day after President Obama announced that legislation to overhaul immigration laws would have to wait until next year, the secretary of homeland security played down the need for change in a speech here and took a tough stance on enforcing current immigration laws.
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A newspaper reports that Frederick County has reaped about $2.6 million in the past two years from a contract allowing the county jail to hold federal immigration detainees.
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