Illegal Aliens

Scourge: Illegal Aliens in our Midst

Paul Schwennesen | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Environment, Politics, Environmentalism, Ecology, Non-Natives, Aldo Leopold, Illegal Aliens, Satire, Conservation, National Invasive Species Council, Green News

Extreme attempts to stifle illegal human immigration are as counterproductive as extreme attempts to stifle life's ecological imperative.

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The Founders' Immigration Policy

Alex Nowrasteh | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Declaration of Independence, Illegal Aliens, Immigration Reform, Undocumented Immigrants, Naturalization, Illegal Immigrants, Founding Fathers, Immigration, Arizona Immigration Law, Birthright Citizenship, Latino Voices News

To truly reform immigration, we should look back to the nation's first immigration and naturalization laws, which are a far cry from restrictive laws in Arizona and Alabama.

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Undocumented 'Cheerleaders' Deported

Posted 12.17.2011

Read More: Illegal Aliens, Fake Cheerleaders Deported, Fake Cheerleaders Sentenced, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Cheerleaders, Colombia, Homeland Security Investigations, Miami News, Miami News

On September 30, 16 Colombians posed as a cheerleading team to try to enter the U.S. illegally at Miami International Airport. When their flight land...

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¡ASK A MEXICAN!: "Illegals" and The "N-Word"

Gustavo Arellano | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Illegal Aliens, Ask a Mexican, Cultura, Racial Slurs, Gustavo Arellano, Wetback, Koreans, Latino Voices News

Why do Americans Call Mexicans "Illegal"?

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The Land of Cotton

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Illegal Aliens, Judge Roy Moore, Alabama Immigration Law, Illegal Immigrants, Politics News

All over Alabama the lamps are out... The fields lie there, with nothing at work in them, neither man nor beast. -- James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famo...

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Journalist Group Calls For End To Use Of Controversial Terms For Immigrants

Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: Society of Professional Journalists, Illegal Alien, Illegal Aliens, Aliens, Immigration, Illegal Immigrants, Video, Media News

The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) voted on Tuesday to recommend that newsrooms across the country discontinue using the phrases "illegal a...

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Too Close for Comfort: President Obama Should Meet With Families of Unauthorized Immigrants

Jorge-Mario Cabrera | Posted 08.27.2011

Read More: Immigration Reform, Illegals, President Obama, Illegal Aliens, Cir, Immigration Enforcement, Mixed-Status Families, Immigration, Border Security, Anti-Immigrant, Undocumented, Chirla, Los Angeles News

Now that President Obama has met with influential Latinos, legislators, and community advocates, he should request a meeting with US-citizen families who live with unauthorized immigrant loved ones.

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Alabama Meets Illegal Aliens

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 08.23.2011

Read More: Illegal Aliens, Hazleton-Pennsylvania, Alabama Immigration Law, Illegal Immigrants, Politics News

Now that Alabama has passed what some describe as the harshest anti-immigration law in the country, it is interesting to see how Alabama has improved on the harsh anti-immigration ordinances passed by a small municipality.

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Identity Politics? Aldo Lanzini, The Man Behind The Mask

Constantin Bjerke | Posted 07.29.2011

Read More: Masks, Art, Aldo Lanzini, Fashion, Illegal Aliens, Milan-Italy, Missoni, crane.tv, Video, Milan, Crochet, Identity, Arts News

Aldo Lanzini uses threads, ribbons, felt and wool to make outrageous yet beautiful works - psychedelic masks, ...

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Big Payout For Suspected Illegal Immigrant

AP | IVAN MORENO | Posted 07.17.2011

Read More: Illegal Aliens, Colorado Illegal Immigration, Denver News, Luis Quezada, Illegal Immigration, Immigration in Colorado, Illegal Detainment, Unlawful Jailing, Luis Quezada Illegal Immigrant, Denver News

DENVER — An immigrant suspected of being in the country illegally could receive $90,000 to settle a lawsuit claiming he was unlawfully held in a...

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Courage to Change More than a Slogan

Jorge-Mario Cabrera | Posted 06.13.2011

Read More: Immigration Reform, President Obama, Dhs, Illegal Aliens, Janet Napolitano, Cir, Immigration, Deportations, Ice, Chirla, Undocumented, Los Angeles News

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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When it Comes to Immigration Detention and Enforcement, Georgia Sets a Terrible Example

Azadeh Shahshahani | Posted 05.30.2011

Read More: Aclu, Secure Communities, Immigration, Human Rights, 287(G), Upr, Iachr, Georgia, Illegal Aliens, Illegal Immigrants, Politics News

The government should also end the unnecessary and inhumane detention of immigrants and instead rely on effective alternatives to detention.

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President Obama's Deeds: The Greatest Tribute to Martyred Romero

Jorge-Mario Cabrera | Posted 05.29.2011

Read More: Angelica Salas, El Salvador, Immigration Reform, Dhs, Illegal Aliens, Janet Napolitano, Enforcement, Immigrants, Archbishop Romero, Ice, Chirla, Los Angeles News

What did the president's visit to El Salvador, a nation that exports immigrants to the United States by the thousands each and every day, mean to the prospects of updated immigration laws?

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The Appeal of the Repeal Amendment

Mark Steinberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rocky Mountain Elk, Coyote Buttes, U.S. Constitution, Arizona, Utah, American Enterprise Institute, Civil-Rights-Act-1964, Voters, Satire, Tax Cuts, Pioneer Day, Oklahoma, Kanab Utah, Health Care, Governor Jan Brewer, Mary Fallin, Gary Herbert, Humor, Assault Weapons, Congressman Rob Bishop, Seven-Up, Chiropterology, Repeal Amendment, Illegal Aliens, Nullification, Sprite, Tenth Amendment, Commerce Clause, Utahans, Repeal Federal Law, Federal Alcohol Administration, Free-Tailed Bat, Comedy News

There are several efforts under way to gut last year's landmark health care legislation. The best known of these is the lawsuit brought by the attorne...

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Dream Lives For Immigration Reform

Diane Dimond | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Diane Dimond, The Dream Continues for Immigration Reform, Immigration Reform, Illegal Aliens, United States Congress and Immigration Reform, Diane Dimond?S Weekly Column, The DREAM Act, Children of Illegal Aliens Are Also Illegal, Dream Act Defeated, U.S. Citizenship, Dream Act First Proposed in August 2001, U.S. Senate Votes to Defeat Dream Act, Amnesty for Illegal Aliens, No Amnesty for Illegal Aliens, Politics News

Our procrastinating Congress ended the first half of its 111th session by once again failing to pass the so-called DREAM Act. The act could have become the first brave and concrete step on the arduous road to immigration reform.

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Community Organizers Revive Immigration Reform Again

Deepak Bhargava | Posted 05.25.2011

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Even while the elite political establishment has been engrossed with the elections, the grassroots has never taken its focus off alleviating the pain felt by people whose lives are affected by our dysfunctional immigration system.

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From My Family to Yours: Immigrant Youth Shout Out

Jorge-Mario Cabrera | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Detention Centers, President Obama, Youth, Children, Cir, Immigration, Immigrants, Detentions, Deportations, Ice, Rifa, Unauthorized, Illegal Aliens, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Migrants, Chirla, Undocumented, Los Angeles News

This week thousands of children will gather in small and large cities in the United States and Mexico to ask Congress to push immigration reform forward and keep families together.

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Glenn Beck, Immigration, and Social Justice

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Public Dialogue, Social Justice, Reasonable Suspicion, Vulnerable Families, Apartheid South Africa, Immigration System, Immigration, Radio Show, Arizona, Brown Skin, Immigrant, Conservative, Government, Apartheid, Illegal, Illegal Aliens, Christ, Liberals, Enforcement, Undocumented Workers, Biblical Justice, Hispanic, Undocumented Worker, Public Conversation, Germany, Crime, Workers, Clergy, Biblical, Papers, Nazi Germany, Racial Profiling, Liberal, Proof, Gospel, Undocumented Immigrant, Fox, Glenn Beck, Nazi, Law Enforcement, Politics News

Beck promised on his radio show that "the hammer" would be coming down on me, and that he would devote a week of his TV show to bringing me down. I took that as a "no" to dialogue, but I've decided to go ahead without him.

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Can You Find the Mexican Alien?

Bill Lichtenstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lcmedia, Law Enforcement, Arizona Immigration, Illegal Immigration, Immigrants, Immigration, Arizona, Illegal Aliens, Immigration Reform, Lichtenstein Creative Media, Bill Lichtenstein, Arizona Immigration Bill, Illegal Immigrants, Boycott Arizona, Stop and Frisk, Arizona Immigration Law, Immigration Debate, Politics News

How difficult will it be to enforce Arizona's new anti-immigration law, which gives law enforcement the right to stop and detain anyone who is "reason...

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An Immigration Solution: The Exact Opposite of Arizona

Nathan Gardels | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Immigration Reform, Immigrants, Immigration, Arizona, Illegal Aliens, California, Politics News

If California were a country, here would be the solution to the problem of illegal immigration from Mexico.

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Arizona is Targeting the Wrong Criminal

Geri Spieler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Illegal Aliens, Labor, Smuggling, U.S.Business, Dhs, Mexico, Illegal Immigration, Arizona Immigration Law, Illegal Labor, Ice, Politics News

Blaming the victim (illegal immigrants) is nothing more than being unwilling to see who really is at fault: its US business hiring low cost labor and every day citizens who hire domestic help.

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Do I Look "Illegal"? -- Latino Nationwide Movement Building

Axel W. Caballero | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Latinos, Governor Jan Brewer, Undocumented Aliens, Boycott, Undocumented Immigrants, Latino Vote, Arizona Immigration, Illegal Immigration, Mexico, Latino-Immigrants, Immigration, Arizona, Arizona Boycott, Illegal Aliens, John McCain Arizona, Jan Brewer, Latino Community, Do I Look Illegal, Latino Voters, Arizona Immigration Bill, Illegal Immigrants, Cuentame, Arizona Immigration Law, Undocumented Workers, Gov. Jan Brewer, Cuentame-Video, Politics News

Arizona's immigration law is creating a wave of Latino social network activism. Following the signing of S.B. 1070, one of the most anti-immigrant laws in the country, Latinos have chosen to mobilize online in numbers rarely seen before.

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Congressman Duncan Hunter Wants to Deport U.S. Citizens

John Carlos Frey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Children of Immigrants, Citizenship, Illegal Aliens, Undocumented Immigrants, US-Mexico Border, Duncan Hunter, Deportation, Illegal Immigration, Politics News

In addition to supporting more militarization at the U.S. - Mexico border, Mr. Duncan D. Hunter also believes that the removal of U.S. born children of undocumented immigrant parents will help stop illegal immigration.

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What to Do -- Or Not -- About Arizona

Mark Olmsted | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Illegal Aliens, Immigration Reform, Economic Boycott, Economy, Border, Mexico, Racism, Immigration, Arizona, Undocumented Workers, Racial Profiling, Sweden, Politics News

Our knee-jerk reaction is to ask the Attorney General to declare the law unconstitutional. While I support this in principle, I think we might also consider not trying to block it at all.

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On SB 1070 And What Happens When "Brown" Means "Illegal"

Disgrasian | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Governor Jan Brewer, Colorism, Sb-1070, Reasonable Suspicion, Arizona Immigration, Arizona Illegal Immigration, Illegal Immigration, S.B. 1070, Arizona, Illegal Aliens, Illegal Immigrants Drivers Licenses, Jan Brewer, Illegal Immigrants, Sb 1070, Arizona Immigration Bill, Racism, Arizona Immigration Law, Politics News

What does an illegal immigrant look like? Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, who just signed SB 1070 into law last Friday--which allows law enforcement to ...

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