03/27/12
Rep. Lamar Smith and his anti-immigrant colleagues are opening another front in the war on women. With the help of Tony Perkins from the Family Research Council, they're targeting women in detention – including undocumented immigrants, mothers, lawful permanent residents, survivors of torture, asylum seekers, and pregnant women.
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03/27/12
Rep. Lamar Smith and his anti-immigrant colleagues are opening another front in the war on women. With the help of Tony Perkins from the Family Research Council, they're targeting women in detention – including undocumented immigrants, mothers, lawful permanent residents, survivors of torture, asylum seekers, and pregnant women.
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03/26/12
Last June, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton outlined criteria for prosecutorial discretion in a memo, which called on ICE officials to consider a range of factors in determining whether an individual should be deported or not.
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03/26/12
In the aftermath of the Trayvon Martin shooting and Florida's newly infamous Stand Your Ground law, many are beginning to look into the source of the law—the secretive, low-profile, highly influential American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).
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03/26/12
In the aftermath of the Trayvon Martin shooting and Florida's newly infamous Stand Your Ground law, many are beginning to look into the source of the law—the secretive, low-profile, highly influential American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).
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03/26/12
This morning, despite pleas from his wife, children and dozens of community members from Manitowoc, WI, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) deported Jaime Martinez Espinal, leaving his US citizen wife, Jennifer, and their four children, in a state of financial and emotional ruin.
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03/26/12
This morning, despite pleas from his wife, children and dozens of community members from Manitowoc, WI, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) deported Jaime Martinez Espinal, leaving his US citizen wife, Jennifer, and their four children, in a state of financial and emotional ruin.
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03/23/12
A positive development in the deportation case of Alfonso Garcia. He's undocumented, a DREAMer and he's married to a US citizen. But, the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which prohibits federal recognition of same-sex benefits, complicates the situation, because Alfonso is married to Brian Willingham.
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03/22/12
Jaime is a fourteen-year resident of Manitowoc, Wisconsin who is the sole provider for his wife and four children, who has been detained by ICE for nearly a month and who could be deported at any time.
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03/22/12
The Romney campaign made another gaffe yesterday when advisor Eric Fehrnstrom compared his boss to an "Etch-a-Sketch" and revealed the campaign's strategy to "hit a reset button for the fall campaign."
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03/22/12
The Romney campaign made another gaffe yesterday when advisor Eric Fehrnstrom compared his boss to an "Etch-a-Sketch" and revealed the campaign's strategy to "hit a reset button for the fall campaign."
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03/22/12
Congressional Quarterly reports that Rep. David Rivera (R-FL) is planning to introduce a dramatically stripped down version of the DREAM Act -- and it doesn't pass the legislative or political laugh test.
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03/22/12
Congressional Quarterly reports that Rep. David Rivera (R-FL) is planning to introduce a dramatically stripped down version of the DREAM Act -- and it doesn't pass the legislative or political laugh test.
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03/21/12
The news that former Governor Jeb Bush (R-FL) has endorsed Mitt Romney for president is a missed opportunity to shift the Republican Party's direction on immigration.
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03/21/12
A detailed analysis of the 2012 electoral map by Markos Moulitsas of DailyKos shows that Mitt Romney's problem with Latino voters could be decisive in the November elections. The analysis relies on recent polling, information about Latino voter turnout, and examinations of 2012 battleground states to highlight the fact that Romney is in a deep hole with Latino voters that could cost him the election.
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03/21/12
Arizona's Sheriff Joe Arpaio might call himself "America's Toughest Sheriff," but he was first to blink yesterday after a serious standoff with undocumented youth from the DREAM Activist movement.
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03/21/12
Arizona's Sheriff Joe Arpaio might call himself "America's Toughest Sheriff," but he was first to blink yesterday after a serious standoff with undocumented youth from the DREAM Activist movement.
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Height of Hypocrisy: South Carolina’s Harsh Anti-immigrant Law Exempts Jobs Often Held by Immigrants
03/20/12
In South Carolina's harsh anti-immigrant law, the legislature carved out a number of exemptions for jobs often filled by undocumented workers. Classic example of hypocrisy. They bash immigrants, but really need them.
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Height of Hypocrisy: South Carolina’s Harsh Anti-immigrant Law Exempts Jobs Often Held by Immigrants
03/20/12
In South Carolina's harsh anti-immigrant law, the legislature carved out a number of exemptions for jobs often filled by undocumented workers. Classic example of hypocrisy. They bash immigrants, but really need them.
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03/19/12
Alabama has just had two more provisions of its anti-immigrant law HB 56 blocked by a federal appeals court, but the state of Mississippi is apparently determined to make a similar mistake of its own.
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03/19/12
Alabama has just had two more provisions of its anti-immigrant law HB 56 blocked by a federal appeals court, but the state of Mississippi is apparently determined to make a similar mistake of its own.
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03/19/12
It's not often that you get to hear in English what Spanish language journalists are writing about, but since immigration is a core issue for many Latino voters, you might have guessed – correctly – that it's also an issue highlighted every day in Spanish language media.
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03/19/12
Excellent news from the AFL-CIO Executive Council's winter meeting: They voiced strong support for immigration reform, including the DREAM Act -- and opposed Alabama's HB 56.
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03/19/12
Excellent news from the AFL-CIO Executive Council's winter meeting: They voiced strong support for immigration reform, including the DREAM Act -- and opposed Alabama's HB 56.
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03/16/12
For a few days now, we've been reporting on Wade Henderson's, Eliseo Medina's, and Dae Joong Yoon's adventures in South Korea. The three of them took a 14 hour flight to Seoul to attend a shareholder's meeting at Hyundai's headquarters, where they asked Hyundai's leadership to to take a stand against H.B. 56 in Alabama -- a state in which the company has a huge manufacturing plant.
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03/16/12
Whether on the campaign trail or in the state house, the heated rhetoric used by opponents of common sense immigration reform is setting a troubling tone that some Americans are deciding to follow.
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03/16/12
Whether on the campaign trail or in the state house, the heated rhetoric used by opponents of common sense immigration reform is setting a troubling tone that some Americans are deciding to follow.
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