Last week, the Obama administration released new guidelines for deportations, and we've spent the days since compiling press releases, editorials, and other statements responding to the announcement. Some have lauded the development, some have criticized it, some have adopted a wait-and-see approach, and some have, well, expressed their...
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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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