Jun 29, 2011
Senator Richard J. Durbin spoke to a crowd of capped and gowned young people, pumping then up with encouraging words as sustenance for their journey ahead. "When I look around this room, I see America's future," he said.
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Growing frustration with illegal immigration, rising public debt and an effective Internet campaign to gather voters' signatures have put Maryland conservatives on the cusp of a victory to delay and possibly repeal a new law that would give undocumented immigrants in-state college tuition breaks.
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Controversy in South Carolina after Governor Nikki Haley signed an illegal immigration bill into law. Opponents say it opens doors for racial profiling, but others say it may be bad for business. Ron Edwards at Springs Farm in Fort Mill is two months behind pruning peaches.
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Ten years after it was first introduced, the DREAM Act got its first ever hearing in the Senate today, giving hundreds of DREAMers in the audience and around the country some measure of renewed hope as Senate Democrats took up the issue once again.
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South Carolina Republican Governor Nikki Haley on Monday signed into law a bill that requires police to check the immigration status of anyone they stop or arrest for another reason and suspect may be in the country illegally.
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A federal judge has blocked the most controversial parts of a tough new Georgia immigration law that was to have taken effect Friday, but left most of the law's provisions intact. The judge, Thomas W. Thrash Jr. of Federal District Court, issued a temporary injunction against two sections, saying...
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This morning's Senate DREAM Act hearing featured Ola Kaso, a DREAM Act student with a 4.4 GPA from Detroit, Michigan. Though she was brought to the United States when she was just four years old, just last month she found herself fighting deportation to a country she barely knows....
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Jun 27, 2011
The preliminary injunction granted by U.S. District Judge Sarah Evans Barker comes as a blow to lawmakers in the Republican-dominated state legislature who this year have taken a get-tough approach to immigration.
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Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) is promoting his E-Verify program as a "jobs" bill that will ease unemployed Americans' woes. It's telling that the first GOP "jobs plan" introduced this year would send unemployed manufacturing workers in Ohio or Michigan to the fields to pick fruit and vegetables. It's...
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Senators Robert Menendez, D-N.J., Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., today announced that they are re-introducing a comprehensive immigration reform bill. The new bill is similar to the version presented by the senator last September.
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