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America Ferrera's Message To Latino Voters: 'Don't Let Anyone Scare You'

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 05.31.2012

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In 1994, America Ferrera was 9-years-old and living with her family in Los Angles when her mother took her aside for a conversation adults who are not...

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What If Jesus Was An Immigrant ... Actually, He Was

Jose Antonio Tijerino | Posted 05.25.2012

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Yes, this is yet another article about immigration. However, this isn't about immigration policy. Or the economic benefits of immigration. This is simply a moral argument for Christian believers. Immigrants are here for the same reasons Jesus of Nazareth and His family went to Egypt.

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Undocumented Immigrants Arrested In Phony UPS Van

AP | Posted 05.24.2012

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NILAND, Calif. -- It was a special delivery indeed – 13 suspected undocumented immigrants from Mexico stuffed in a phony UPS van. The U.S. Border...

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Immigrant Smugglers Sentenced For Killing 70-Year-Old Woman

Posted 05.23.2012

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Three men have been sentenced to prison in an immigrant smuggling ring for crashing through a Texas home in an SUV, killing a 70-year-old woman, Bert...

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Mitt Romney Begins To Stir In Fight For U.S. Hispanic Votes

Reuters | Posted 05.23.2012

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* Republican candidate to address Latino group in Washington * Romney faces huge deficit with this key voting bloc * Whi...

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Latinos Likely To Bear Brunt Of Florida's Voter Rolls Purge

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 05.18.2012

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Less than two months after a Florida effort to identify and purge ineligible voters from the state's rolls began, opponents say it seems likely to dis...

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Whistleblowers Face Deportation

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 05.08.2012

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In September 2008, Hurricanes Ike and Gustav ravaged cities along the Texas coast. Ambitious contractors and those just eager to help went looking for...

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Obama Touts Immigration Reform At White House Cinco de Mayo Party

HuffingtonPost.com | Christina Wilkie | Posted 05.03.2012

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama celebrated the contributions of Hispanic Americans Thursday at a Cinco de Mayo reception in the White House Rose ...

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May Day Protests Show Weak Immigration Movement

AP | KATE BRUMBACK and PETER PRENGAMAN | Posted 05.02.2012

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ATLANTA -- While a black preacher told 100 immigration protesters that incarcerated blacks and detained immigrants faced similar challenges, Jesse Mor...

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Dead Mexican Teen's Family To Pursue Suit V. Agent

AP | Posted 04.30.2012

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EL PASO, Texas -- A lawyer for the family of a 15-year-old Mexican boy killed by a U.S. Border Patrol agent in 2010 says they will press on with their...

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U.S. Scrambles After Huge Surge Of Child Immigrants Caught Crossing Border

AP | CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN | Posted 04.28.2012

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McALLEN, Texas -- An unprecedented surge of children caught trudging through South Texas scrublands or crossing at border ports of entry without their...

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New Mexico Governor's Grandfather Was A U.S. Citizen

AP | BARRY MASSEY | Posted 04.28.2012

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SANTA FE, N.M. -- Ever since taking office last year as the nation's first Hispanic female governor, New Mexico's Susana Martinez found her family tre...

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Marco Rubio: A Latino Leader Or Enemy?

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 04.27.2012

Sitting behind a computer screen in his Los Angles-area home, Luis Alvarado was sipping coffee and making his usual online run though the morning’s ...

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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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Controversial Arizona Immigration Law Reaches Supreme Court

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 04.26.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court is questioning Arizona's tough "show me your papers" law aimed at driving undocumented immigrants out of the state, am...

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Number Of U.S. Undocumented Immigrants From Mexico Drops

AP | HOPE YEN | Posted 04.24.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The number of Mexican immigrants living illegally in the U.S. has dropped significantly for the first time in decades, a dramatic shift ...

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12 Undocumented Immigrants Hospitalized After Hit-And-Run

The Huffington Post | Cristina Costantini | Posted 04.24.2012

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Local authorities are still searching for the driver that sent twelve undocumented immigrants to the hospital in the border town of Progreso, Texas ov...

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Military Base As Shelter For Immigrant Children

HuffingtonPost.com | Cristina Costantini | Posted 04.19.2012

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Air Force turned a San Antonio Air Force base into temporary shelter for 100 undocument...

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Rubio Tries To Find Middle Ground On Immigration

AP | DONNA CASSATA | Posted 04.18.2012

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WASHINGTON — Florida Sen. Marco Rubio's push for a Republican version of immigration legislation looks like the answer to the election-year prayers ...

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Student Passes Bar But May Not Be Able To Practice

Posted 05.17.2012

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Jose Godinez-Samperio, 25, graduated at the top of his class at Florida State University’s College of Law. But the aspiring lawyer may not get to pr...

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Smithsonian's New Exhibit Focuses On Immigration

AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 04.12.2012

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WASHINGTON — Dorothy's ruby slippers from "The Wizard of Oz" have a new home with a diverse set of artifacts in a new timeline of American histo...

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Father Denied Entry To U.S. From Mexico To Bury Son

AP | MICHAEL RUBINKAM | Posted 04.02.2012

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ALLENTOWN, Pa. -- A Mexican national said he has been barred from entering the United States to bury his 10-year-old son, a U.S. citizen who died Tues...

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New Immigration Detention Center Look Less Like Prison

AP | By WILL WEISSERT | Posted 03.14.2012

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KARNES CITY, Texas -- With free Internet access, cheap overseas phone calls, private bathrooms and no lights-out policy, the new immigration detention...

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Separated Couple Awaits Immigration Law Change

AP | By CRISTINA SILVA | Posted 03.06.2012

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TIJUANA, Mexico -- Agustin Portillo checks the oil in his wife's car, stores her luggage in her trunk and then drives her from his tiny apartment in T...

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Immigration, Deportation and States' Rights: What Martha Taught Me

Rep. Luis Gutierrez | Posted 03.05.2012

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I am proud to live in a country where the rule of law and federal immigration preeminence enshrined in the constitution are tools to undo what legislatures in Alabama, South Carolina, and elsewhere have tried to do when politicizing and polarizing the immigration issue.

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