Deportations

Obama: 'Worse Than Joe Arpaio'?

The Huffington Post | Elise Foley | Posted 05.25.2012

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An anti-Obama group hopes to use the president's deportation record to pull away his Hispanic support, beginning in a campaign in Nevada next week. ...

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Cousins Mistakenly Swept Up In Sex Trafficking Raid Fight Deportation Order

HuffingtonPost.com | Carlos Harrison | Posted 05.07.2012

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Immigration advocates are fighting to block the imminent deportation of two Guatemalan cousins allegedly bloodied and battered when Immigration and Cu...

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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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How Many People Have Really Been Deported Under Obama?

HuffingtonPost.com | Gabriel Lerner | Posted 03.09.2012

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Many Latinos are critical of President Barack Obama's occasional championing of undocumented immigrant deportation, believing that Obama has broken h...

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L.A. Sorry For Role In Deportation Of Two Million Mexican-Americans

Posted 02.23.2012

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Anti-immigrant rhetoric like the one displayed by different presidential candidates these days is not new to our country. Decades ago, it was worse. B...

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Go Deport Yourself: Romney's "Self-Deportation" Policy Is No Joke

Raul A. Reyes | Posted 04.22.2012

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Romney might want to stop and consider that his immigration stance is at odds with his faith.

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DREAM Act Student-Activists Ramp Up Tactics, Risk Deportation For Cause

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Long Chavez | Posted 01.25.2012

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LOS ANGELES -- A pair of college students from Southern California recently walked into a Border Patrol office in Alabama, the state whose immigration...

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Lawmaker Proposes Letting Undocumented Immigrants Live And Work Openly In California

HuffingtonPost.com | Kathleen Miles | Posted 12.25.2011

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LOS ANGELES -- A measure to allow close to one million undocumented immigrants to live and work openly in California without fear of deportation could...

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Joaquin Luna's Unfinished Blueprint

Jorge-Mario Cabrera | Posted 01.31.2012

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Who was this Joaquin, and why is he the subject of conversation, especially amongst immigrant rights advocates who ask ourselves if we could have done something to prevent his suicide? The answers do not come easily.

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Immigration Enforcement Sending Thousands of Children to Foster Care

Voto Latino | Posted 01.06.2012

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"Immigration enforcement greatly increases the chances that families will never see each other again."

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House Republicans Move Forward With Subpoena Effort On Immigration

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 01.02.2012

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WASHINGTON -- House Republicans on the immigration subcommittee voted on Wednesday to authorize a subpoena of the Obama administration over its deport...

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How Secure Communities Is Impacting Illinois Families

The Chicago Reporter | By: Maria Ines Zamudio | Posted 01.01.2012

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Sitting in DuPage County Jail, Leticia Morua sobbed uncontrollably, unable to answer questions during the booking interview. "I felt humiliated," Moru...

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"Lost in Detention" Shows Broken System

Voto Latino | Posted 12.23.2011

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It appears the administration will continue doing "the stuff they've asked for," and get nothing in return, except for even more broken families and scorn from the congressmen they're trying to appease.

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Republicans Push Back On Obama Deportation Policy

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 11.13.2011

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WASHINGTON -- House Republicans plan to hold hearings, perhaps within the next three weeks, to fight back against a new Obama administration deportati...

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The Lull in Between Storms

Jorge-Mario Cabrera | Posted 10.22.2011

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Now more than ever, we must not stop working with and pressuring Congress and the Obama Administration to pass real, substantive, and long-lasting changes in immigration policy.

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White House Response to Protests; Short on Facts, Long on Desperation

Felipe Matos | Posted 10.18.2011

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For the president to win re-election, he must garner a significant percentage of Latino votes. SCOMM, the, massive and controversial deportations program that President Obama is championing, is one sure way for him to lose the election.

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Takes Two to Tango

Jorge-Mario Cabrera | Posted 09.26.2011

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Although Obama's political advisors are telling the president he has Latinos in the bag in 2012, the jury is out deliberating whether or not he means it when he says he will fight the fight with us on immigration reform.

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Luis Gutierrez Arrested For Protesting Deportations (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 09.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) and 10 other immigration reform supporters were arrested in front of the White House on Tuesday for protest...

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Barack Obama Courts Latino Voters, Calls For Partner On Immigration Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 09.24.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Republicans need to come forward to pass immigration reform, President Barack Obama said at a meeting of Latino advocacy group National ...

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Obama Administration Deports Record Number Of Immigrants

AP | By SUZANNE GAMBOA | Posted 09.21.2011

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Huge increases in deportations of people after they were arrested for breaking traffic or immigration laws or driving drunk helped ...

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WATCH: Luis Gutierrez Urges Obama To Halt Deportation Of DREAMers

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 09.04.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Rep. Luis Gutierrez called last week for President Barack Obama to stop deporting undocumented young people, urging him to say, "I'm not...

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Senate Democrats Relaunch Immigration Reform Effort

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 08.22.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats launched on Wednesday a new effort for comprehensive immigration reform, even though they so far have no Republican sup...

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Warning: ICE Fishing Dragnet in Effect

Jorge-Mario Cabrera | Posted 08.15.2011

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For immigrants, both documented and undocumented, arrest even without imprisonment can lead to being taken away from loved ones through deportation. We have to ask ourselves: what is being done to our communities?

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Mr. President: Yes You Can Stop Deporting DREAMers

Rep. Luis Gutierrez | Posted 08.13.2011

We are sending a clear message to President Obama that it is time to stop deporting young people who were raised in the U.S. and are American in every way except for the paperwork.

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Courage to Change More than a Slogan

Jorge-Mario Cabrera | Posted 06.13.2011

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Americans would be surprised to know that our immigration laws are unfairly, unjustly, and inconsistently enforced. And it's not just unauthorized immigrants that suffer the consequences.

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