North Carolina officials are seeking the termination of a deported Mexican man's parental rights, arguing that his U.S.-born children are better off in this country than in Mexico.
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Late last month, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released new health and safety standards for immigration detainment facilities, which now include things like visitation rights and permission to adhere to dietary restrictions.
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Two new polls of Latino voters confirm what I have been writing for several months: Republican front-runner Mitt Romney is so unpopular among Hispanic voters that he would have a hard time winning the November elections.
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Mar 9, 2012
A prominent Republican pollster conceded Thursday that the debate over immigration reform has damaged his party's brand with Latino voters and said that his party desperately needs to rehabilitate its image with Latinos to stave off irrelevancy in the long-term.
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This is a squeeze play. The state's Hispanic population is blooming, and its black population grew faster than its Anglo population. But Anglos still dominate the political maps, and Latinos dominate the part of the political maps controlled by minorities.
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It's International Women's Day and one of the most amazing women I know, Angela M. Kelley , is reminding us about the special contributions, insights, and strength of immigrant women. Angie is the Vice President for Immigration Policy and Advocacy at the Center for American Progress (CAP).
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President Barack Obama's top campaign officials said Wednesday that the Republican candidates' intensifying efforts to appeal to the most conservative segment of the GOP were alienating Hispanics and other potential voters.
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Nelson Javier Avila Lopez was deported by the U.S. to Honduras in October despite a court order barring his removal. Now it turns out that Lopez, 20, was among the estimated 360 trapped inmates killed in a massive Honduran prison fire last month.
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For the last three years, America's Voice has been sending immigrant rights activists to Netroots Nation as "Immigration-Blogger-Scholars", and it's one of the programs we're most proud of. The conference, which has been billed as the biggest progressive conference of the year, attracts many of today's most popular...
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President Obama Tuesday uttered a now-familiar refrain at his first news conference of the year: a large Latino turnout in November could trigger greater support for immigration reform.
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