Already facing protests against her attempted crackdown on undocumented workers, Governor Susana Martinez (R-NM) faces new scrutiny with the revelation that her grandfather was an undocumented immigrant from Mexico.
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Already facing protests against her attempted crackdown on undocumented workers, Governor Susana Martinez (R-NM) faces new scrutiny with the revelation that her grandfather was an undocumented immigrant from Mexico.
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Sep 6, 2011
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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It's illegal and immoral to take resources from state taxpayers and give them to people without proper documentation, a national Tea Party leader says. H. John Stahl is pushing for legislation in Pennsylvania and other states to ensure that illegal aliens don't get taxpayer-paid benefits such as welfare, take...
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A major part of the state's new immigration enforcement law is triggering some tricky questions -- and confusion -- among Georgia employers. A provision in the law requires many businesses to use the federal E-Verify program to ensure their newly hired employees are eligible to work in the United...
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A federal judge has severed three cases against Alabama's new immigration law, a month after consolidating them. In an order issued Thursday afternoon, U.S. District Judge Sharon Blackburn said "for case management purposes and ease of appellate review" she was separating suits brought against the law by the U.S...
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In New Mexico, where Gov. Susana Martínez and her GOP buddies are pushing to repeal a law enacted in 2003 that allows all residents of New Mexico to apply for a driver's license, an immigrant advocacy group Somos Un Pueblo Unido is mobilizing their members to take action against...
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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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Bill Donahue (not to be confused with this guy, talk show host Phil Donahue), president of the Catholic League for Civil and Human Rights, has added his voice to the chorus of people who have come out against the Alabama immigration law.
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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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