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Deportation And Wiretapping At The Supreme Court

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 05.21.2012

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WASHINGTON -- With five weeks remaining in its term, the Supreme Court on Monday morning chipped away at its 20-plus cases yet to be decided by issuin...

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Republicans on Immigration: The Pot Calling the Kettle Black

Maribel Hastings | Posted 05.15.2012

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The questions facing these Republicans are simple: if Obama had, in fact, introduced an immigration reform bill, would Republicans have supported it? Do they support comprehensive immigration reform now? The answers are also simple: a resounding no.

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Disappointed Democrats Fight Obama On Immigration -- And Campaign For Him

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.14.2012

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.), one of President Barack Obama's most vocal critics on immigration, was sitting at dinner with his family a...

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House GOP To Defend DOMA For Separating Same-Sex Binational Couples

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.09.2012

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WASHINGTON -- House Republicans will intervene in a lawsuit that would keep same-sex couples from being pulled apart -- even separated to different co...

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Undocumented Immigrant Offers To Leave, Gets Locked Up Instead

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.04.2012

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Kalsum Pangkey, a 56-year-old undocumented immigrant from Indonesia, went to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office on April 25 to report that ...

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Marco Rubio Holds Meeting With Democrats

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 04.25.2012

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WASHINGTON -- In a sign that Democrats may consider getting on board with Sen. Marco Rubio's Dream Act-style legislation, three leading Latino members...

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Did Marco Rubio's Grandfather Stay In The U.S. After Deportation Order?

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 04.25.2012

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A new book examining the life of Sen. Marco Rubio, will indicate that the Tea Party Republican and possible GOP vice presidential pick, may have a mor...

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BREAKING: ICE To Suspend Over 16,000 Deportations

AP | AMY TAXIN | Posted 04.25.2012

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SANTA ANA, Calif. -- Immigration officials have offered to shelve 7.5 percent of deportation cases under a massive review of the backlogged U.S. syste...

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U.S. Closes 2,600 Deportation Cases Deemed Low Priority

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 04.20.2012

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WASHINGTON -- A review of about 300,000 pending deportation cases resulted in 2,609 men and women being allowed to stay in the U.S. -- at least tempor...

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Man In Deportation Case Is Free ... For Now

HuffingtonPost.com | Arin Greenwood | Posted 04.20.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Jai Shankar is no longer wearing the ankle bracelet that had been tracking his every move since 2010. Shankar was ordered to wear th...

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Semana Latina: DREAMers Dare And Hope

Gabriel Lerner | Posted 04.14.2012

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But even though participants' opinions may not change after reading the blogs, the tone of their criticism appears to be civil, and debate is possible when the real and human condition of the writer is revealed in the blog.

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Living In A Mixed-Status Home

Nancy Meza | Posted 04.14.2012

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Undocumented immigrants do not live in isolation; we are integral members of of our communities. We are people's brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, loved ones, friends, neighbors and co-workers.

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Congresswoman Visits Church Serving As Sanctuary For Immigrants

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 04.09.2012

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Three men who fled persecution in their native Indonesia are now living in a New Jersey church to avoid deportation, as its pastor and members of Cong...

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Thousands Arrested In Immigration Operation

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 04.02.2012

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WASHINGTON -- As Republicans accuse the Obama administration of shirking its responsibilities on immigration enforcement, the agency responsible for i...

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Immigration Activists Rally Against Planned Detention Center

Posted 03.31.2012

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Some 30 people on Friday kicked off a three-day march from Chicago's Little Village neighborhood to south suburban Crete, the site of a proposed deten...

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Thousands Of Parents Deported By ICE

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 03.31.2012

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WASHINGTON -- In the first half of 2011 alone, nearly 46,500 parents of U.S.-born children were forced to leave the country, according to a report rel...

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DHS Expanding Deportation Reviews To 4 More Cities

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 03.30.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The Department of Homeland Security will begin to close deportation cases in Seattle, Detroit, New Orleans and Orlando after it temporar...

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Undocumented Immigrant Spared Deportation Due To Gay Marriage

Posted 03.12.2012

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David González, a gay Costa Rican immigrant, was spared deportation on Thursday based on the fact that he is married to a male U.S. citizen. ...

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Are President Obama's Deportation Changes Real?

Rep. Luis Gutierrez | Posted 05.12.2012

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Gabino Sanchez cannot get a driver's license, cannot get legal immigration papers and must drive to support his family. His misdemeanor criminal history is a product of his undocumented status combined with a heavy dose of good old-fashioned racial profiling for DWB (Driving While Brown).

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Undocumented Immigrant Wins Lottery Ticket Lawsuit

Posted 03.09.2012

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Almost two years after he bought a winning lottery ticket and gave it to his boss to cash for fear of being exposed as an undocumented immigrant, Jose...

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ICE Director: 'Draconion' To Suspending Program Under Investigation For Racial Profiling

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 03.08.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director John Morton said Thursday that the agency has no plans to suspend a controversial program t...

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Daniela Pelaez, Miami Valedictorian, Exposes Republican Rift On Immigration

HuffingtonPost.com | Carlos Harrison | Posted 03.08.2012

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Daniela Pelaez is practically a poster child for the Dream Act: a high school valedictorian, dreams of becoming a doctor -- and an undocumented immigr...

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Sen. Rubio: 1 Down...2.1 Million to Go

Felipe Matos | Posted 05.08.2012

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We've seen hypocritical politicians, but Marco Rubio, the anti-immigrant son of immigrants takes the cake.

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Lights, Cameras, Politicians...

Ediberto Roman | Posted 05.07.2012

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There are thousands of children just like Daniela Pelaez. They have grown up in the U.S. and know this great land to be their home. Yet, perhaps because they are not valedictorians, they face fear and deportation.

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Winning Lottery Ticket Stolen From Undocumented Immigrant

Posted 03.07.2012

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An unusual trial opened this week at Judge Goerge F. Nunn’s courtroom in the Houston County Superior Court in Warner Robins, Georgia. A man sued ...

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