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Deportations Rise In The Midwest

AP | Posted 12.08.2008 | Chicago

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Just after dawn, shackled illegal immigrants lined up on an isolated tarmac at O'Hare International Airport before boarding a federal jet bound for th...

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Congressman Urges Obama To Help Immigrants

AP | Posted 11.20.2008 | Chicago

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Activists are calling on Barack Obama to fulfill promises to keep immigrant mothers from being separated from their children. That plea came outside ...

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21 Charged In Alleged Little Village Fake ID Ring

Chicago Tribune | Jeff Coen | Posted 10.20.2008 | Chicago

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A day after federal authorities announced a broad sweep that resulted in the arrest of dozens of immigrants here illegally, prosecutors said 21 peopl...

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St. Cecilia Over Her Shoulder: A Lifetime Of Small Miracles Steer An Immigrant From Germany To Chicago

Czerina Salud and Sandra Wong Geroux | Posted 09.20.2008 | Chicago

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Czerina Salud and Sandra Wong Geroux

The American opera houses didn't know it yet, but amidst the backdrop of postwar Germany, one of its most passionate advocates and educators was about to begin her journey into the realm of their epic institution. Like every remarkable journey, the road to Oz was fraught with danger, but also miracles, along the way.

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The Threatening "Silliness" of U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement

Joshua Hoyt | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics

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Joshua Hoyt

In America we change broken and stupid laws - that is how women got the vote and Jim Crow segregation was ended. We will have immigration enforcement that works only when we create legal avenues for workers to come to the U.S. to do the many entry-level jobs our economy has created and only when we legalize the 12 million undocumented workers who are already contributing to our nation with their sweat.

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