Although the Obama administration favors the expanded use of the electronic E-Verify system to confirm the legal status of prospective employees, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said today that any expansion of E-Verify must be part of a larger immigration reform plan.
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Protesters arrested at an immigration rally in Charlotte will not face deportation. Mecklenburg County jail officials say 10 of the 15 people arrested Tuesday are in the United States illegally. But sheriff's spokeswoman Julia Rush said Immigration and Customs Enforcement told authorities Wednesday not to put detainers on the...
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In honor of Labor Day yesterday, U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis wrote this piece reminding readers that "immigration reform is an economic imperative." Immigrants have founded or co-founded 18% of the 2010 Fortune 500 companies, she writes, producing $1.7 trillion dollars in revenue and employing more than...
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California is on the brink of making a wise investment in its future and delivering a powerful rebuke to poisoned immigration politics at the national level. This week, the Legislature is expected to pass the California Dream Act, a bill to allow undocumented immigrants to receive state-financed college scholarships...
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"I began to wonder why immigrants had to be chased like animals, and why I was being paid to chase them" says John Randolph, a former border patrol agent, in his piece at the Huffington Post last Thursday. "'What are we doing here? Why am I chasing these people?',...
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Sep 2, 2011
In a seminal poem tied to the very early years of the civil rights movement, Langston Hughes wrote: "What happens to a dream deferred?" Just ask the estimated 24,000 undocumented students who graduate each year from California's public high schools.
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We're seeing more progress in California as the legislature moves towards passage of the second part of that state's DREAM Act. This latest legislation, AB 130, would give DREAMers access to publicly funded financial aid. In late July, Governor Brown signed the companion legislation that let DREAMers apply for...
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The California Legislature is poised to pass a law that would allow illegal immigrants to receive state-financed aid for college. Known as the California Dream Act, the bill underscores the ways states are navigating their own way through controversial immigration issues, as the Obama administration has been unable to...
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Aug 30, 2011
Tell the White House to stand strong in stopping deportation of DREAMers!
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We've heard a lot of talk about the new immigration deportation policy. Soon, we're going to see what it means for undocumented immigrants who are in deportation proceedings. Over the weekend, the Omaha World-Herald published the story of Luis Cervantes. He's a candidate for the relief under the new...
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