The Obama administration intends to announce an ambitious plan on Thursday to overhaul the much-criticized way the nation detains immigration violators, trying to transform it from a patchwork of jail and prison cells to what its new chief called a "truly civil detention system."
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It was another sweep, with more arrests and complaints of racial profiling.
Valley residents are getting used to the fanfare and bitter debate that accompany Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's "crime suppression operations," like the one in Chandler nearly two weeks ago.
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With the Senate beginning its debate on Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court nomination today, it's worth pointing out how stable Obama's support among Latinos has been since he became president -- even with his poll numbers falling back to earth.
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Regardless of their legal status, immigrants deserve a fair shot at justice once they are in this country. That's especially true for the most vulnerable, those in detention and facing deportation. All too often, however, they are denied justice and basic due process.
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Yesterday's New York Times blasts the Obama administration for being too slow to implement real, comprehensive immigration reform, and too quick to extend Bush-era immigration policies that have led to widespread abuse. It mentions local protests bubbling up across the country that are part of a nation-wide call to...
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Yesterday, DC-based think tank NDN hosted "Politics and Policy: What to Expect from the Immigration Debate," a panel discussion between NDN president Simon Rosenberg, ImmigrationWorks president Tamar Jacoby, and executive director of the National Immigration Forum, Ali Noorani.
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Aug 4, 2009
President Barack Obama sought to avoid an all-out partisan cultural war over his first Supreme Court choice, selecting a pragmatic, former New York prosecutor and veteran judge over other more liberal candidates.
He largely succeeded. Having secured the recommendation of the influential Senate Judiciary Committee, Sonia Sotomayor now is all...
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Just last week, the Cordozo School of Law's Immigrant Justice Center released its study on ICE immigration raids, and noted that among the organization's many violations: "ICE has admitted that these are warrantless raids and, therefore, that any entries into homes require the informed consent of residents." Now, consider...
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Aug 3, 2009
After early pledges by President Obama that he would moderate the Bush administration's tough policy on immigration enforcement, his administration is pursuing an aggressive strategy for an illegal-immigration crackdown that relies significantly on programs started by his predecessor.
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"In other words, Mr. Dobbs' audience has decreased 15 percent in total viewers and 27 percent in the demo since the start of the controversy. Maybe this will get CNN President Jon Klein's attention. After initially attempting to put Dobbs' birther madness to bed in an email that read,...
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