Jul 26, 2009
As Congress moves slowly on immigration reform, President Obama is making numerous policy changes in enforcement and other areas that are designed to shift priorities and boost confidence in the administration as it lays the groundwork for possible legislation.
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Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is batting with the federal government over a change in immigration law enforcement polices. Arpaio said MCSO had to release three illegal immigrants arrested during a recent crime sweep in Mesa and the East Valley because of new directives by the Immigration & Customs...
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The Obama administration is vastly expanding a federal effort begun under President George W. Bush to identify and deport illegal immigrants held in local jails. But here in the city where the effort got a trial start eight months ago, people on each side of the immigration debate have...
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Solving our current immigration crisis is akin to a legislative Rubik's cube - you can't solve the problem unless you are thinking about all sides of the cube simultaneously. Puzzlers also know that if at first you don't succeed, you keep moving forward, learning from past mistakes.
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Lou Dobbs is proving to be a huge embarrassment for CNN. This time, he may have finally gone too far.
Over the past couple weeks, Dobbs has taken up the cause of the extremist "birthers." Those are the far right-wingers who claim Barack Obama wasn't born in America,...
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Citing nearly 20 years of data that show "significant racial disparities" in the way Rhode Island State Police officers enforce traffic laws, eight civil-rights and community organizations are urging federal officials not to deputize some state police officers as federal immigration enforcers.
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President Obama recently held a White House meeting on immigration and Sen. Charles M. Schumer, D-N.Y., is talking about the principles for comprehensive immigration reform, a signal that they are serious about starting the congressional debate on reforming the nation's laws. For those who expect this debate to be...
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Some of the nation's top cops on Wednesday called upon Congress to promptly adopt an immigration reform measure, saying local law enforcement agencies across America are struggling to deal with crime and confusion caused by a broken system.
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It's official, Heath Shuler is back trying to insert himself into the immigration debate. The only problem? He didn't get it in 2008 and he still doesn't get it today.
It's almost as if he has a cheat sheet of ineffective policies that are becoming a revolving door for his...
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Mario Solis-Marich writes: "The Most Trusted Name in News" has looked the other way as Dobbs made them cash by selling outright lies about the immigration debate. Will CNN officials continue to hide in their accounting suites as Dobbs makes believe that the President of the United States is...
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