Oct 14, 2010
There is no greater right than the ability to be safe and secure in our neighborhood and in our own lives. So it pains me when officials use words like "secure" to describe programs that do just the opposite.
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Oct 6, 2010
The Obama administration announced Wednesday that in the past year it has deported a record number of unauthorized immigrants - more than 392,000, about half of whom were convicted criminals.
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Oct 5, 2010
More illegal immigrants with criminal convictions are being deported in recent years, driving up the number of people being removed from the United States, according to data from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Sep 7, 2010
FOR a man facing the possibility of up to 30 years in prison, almost $4 million in fines and the government seizure of his small French restaurant here, Michel Malecot has an unusually jovial and serene air
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A concession by the nation's immigration authorities is a win, no doubt. But the battle over what should have been a no-brainer demonstrates we still have a ways to go before we have an effective policy for dealing with immigration.
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Secure Communities won't make the country more secure, not the way it is working. Police departments that don't want to participate should be able to opt out. The Obama administration needs to fix it or jettison it.
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Protests in Arizona and through-out America continued today after Arizonan's governor, Jan Brewer asked an appeals court to reconsider the most heinous parts of the state's new immigration law and as the lightning-rod Maricopa County Sheriff, Joe Arpaio, prepared a highly publicized "crime sweep."
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While SB 1070 won't go into effect in Arizona until July 29th, Dr. Sylvia Herrera, a researcher with human-rights organization Puente, explained at the hearing that its effects are already being felt at all levels: families separated, women who don't dare report the domestic violence they suffer to the...
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A second-grader stole the show today, even as U.S. President Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon held a press conference in the Rose Garden at the White House. They spoke about the need for immigration reform and about concerns over Arizona's harsh new law. Nothing particularly surprising.
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Apr 6, 2010
Check out our new video, "Immigration: More Rogue than Right?," and then raise your voice about our nation's unjust immigration policies. Last week, the Washington Post reported that federal immigration agents have quotas to round up "easy targets" -- moms and dads working to feed their families -- instead...
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