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Entries by Bill Ong Hing from 02/2012

Prop 8 Case and the Message for Immigration Reform

| Posted 02.10.2012 | Politics
Read More: Immigration Reform, Proposition 8, Uafa, Same-Sex Marriage, Prop 8, Immigration, Uniting American Families Act, Politics News

The striking down of California's Proposition 8 attempt to take away marital rights from same-sex couples sends a strong immigration-reform message to Congress: it's time to allow U.S. citizens lawfully married to same-sex partners the opportunity to apply for lawful immigrant status.

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Lessons to Remember From Japanese Internment

| Posted 02.21.2012 | Crime
Read More: Executive-Order-9066, Immigration, Japanese Internment, Indefinite Detention, Fred Korematsu, Yaser Hamdi, Crime News

Sunday marked the 70th anniversary of Executive Order 9066, which authorized the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Their mass incarceration provides a lesson in human rights abuse that, unfortunately, the nation tends to forget too conveniently.

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