As we've been reporting, we received good news from the Obama administration and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) yesterday: new immigration and deportation guidelines have been announced, which if implemented to their fullest could mean the end of deportations for DREAMers.
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We at America's Voice write semi-regular Profiles in Extremism, but today's subject really takes the cake. According to Loren Nichols, a candidate for city council in Kennewick, Washington state, undocumented immigrants should be "shot at the border...If they value their lives, they would leave."
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Aug 15, 2011
The 2012 presidential election will likely be about jobs and the economy -- and not about immigration. Just don't tell that to NumbersUSA, a nativist organization that recently graded 12 committed or prospective presidential candidates, including President Obama, on their immigration-related views, policies and statements.
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For all of his rock-solid conservative credentials, if Texas Gov. Rick Perry runs for president, he may have an Achilles' heel: immigration.
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Over the weekend, the Washington Post ran a feature on Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) and the work the agency does at Dulles Airport.
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Aug 10, 2011
Federal immigration officials say an internal investigation of 12 incidents of alleged abuse and illegal conduct - including one in which a Cincinnati family claims its Fourth Amendment rights were violated - clears its agents of any wrongdoing.
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An American immigration agent bounded up the steps of a bus about to cross the United States-Mexico border recently and demanded to see the papers of all those aboard. "Papers!" he shouted, eyeing passengers warily as he walked up and down the aisle.
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About a decade ago, a federal prosecutor in Texas asked Edmond Demiraj to testify against an Albanian mobster charged with human smuggling. Mr. Demiraj had information: He had worked with the mobster, Bill Bedini, in a construction business.
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Aug 8, 2011
The Federal government's rogue agency is at it again. In a late Friday afternoon surprise announcement, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that it would rescind all 39 memoranda of understanding (MOUs) with states to implement "Secure Communities" (S-Comm.)
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Here's a question: how many border agents does it take to the protect the border?
The real-life answer is that we'll never find out because apparently, a significant number of them have been known to fall asleep on the job.
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