Illegal Immigrants

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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Prison Riot Leaves Guard Dead, 8 Hurt

AP | By HOLBROOK MOHR | Posted 05.22.2012

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BRANDON, Miss. -- A guard was killed and, at one point, hostages were taken during a riot at a Mississippi prison that holds undocumented immigrants, ...

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'My Name Is Diana. I Am Undocumented And Unafraid'

AP | HELEN O'NEILL | Posted 05.21.2012

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-- She was tiny and trembling and looked so very vulnerable. Barely 15, having already experienced a lifetime of hardships since losing her mother at...

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Author and Legal Scholar, Michelle Alexander, Talks about The War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration (Part 3)

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Jim Crow, Bill Clinton, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Prison Industrial Complex, Ronald Reagan, Martin Luther King, Richard Nixon, Drug War, Edward Byrne Memorial Grant Program, Michelle Alexander, Mass Incarceration, Illegal Immigrants, Private Prisons, Obama Drug War, Drug Policy, Politics News

Author and legal scholar, Michelle Alexander, has written a powerful and highly acclaimed, well-researched book titled, "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness."

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Understanding Civility in Civil Disobedience

Pamela H. Long | Posted 05.10.2012

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Am I aiding and abetting, harboring and transporting? Lord, I hope so. I'm taking Matthew 25: 34-40 seriously. When meeting the physical and social needs of the "least of these" becomes an act of civil disobedience, I must disobey.

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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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ICE's Collateral Damage in an Ironic Sex Trafficking Raid

Subhash Kateel | Posted 05.04.2012

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Does one of the largest law enforcement agencies, with programs and operations with names like "Secure Communities" and "Community Shield," really care about the communities it is "securing" and shielding?

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Innovative Health Insurance Plan For The Undocumented

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 05.04.2012

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In a program believed to be the first of its kind in the nation, a restaurant workers' group and Los Angeles community clinic have teamed up to provid...

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Mayday! Mayday! "Mayday!" Bankers Panic Over May Day Demonstrations

Jerry Ashton | Posted 04.30.2012

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May Day is a holiday for the 99 percent. It is a day for people to come together, across all those lines which too often divide us -- race, class, gender, religion -- and challenge the systems that create these divisions.

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Tribeca 2012 Diary: Una Noche Director Lucy Mulloy

Dan Persons | Posted 04.25.2012

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The drama of three young Cubans taking the not-inconsequential step of escaping their country to the (possibly) welcoming arms of the United States is traced in startling detail in Una Noche.

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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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The LGBT Community Should Condemn Arizona's Anti-Immigrant Law, S.B. 1070

Iván Espinoza-Madrigal | Posted 04.23.2012

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There is an indissoluble link between immigrants affected by S.B. 1070 and the fight for LGBT equality, because the LGBT community encompasses not only binational same-sex couples and LGBT asylum-seekers but undocumented LGBT immigrants.

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Around The World In 10 Photos

Posted 04.21.2012

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From Argentina to Zimbabwe, the monumental to the day-to-day, each week, HuffPost World will present some of the most remarkable images from across th...

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I Am Undocumented: A Face of Legal Immigration Gone Wrong

Dianne E. Stewart | Posted 04.18.2012

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We've become victims of a legal immigration horror story of deception, criminal fraud, financial ruin, discrimination, pain, uncertainly, insecurity and devastating implications -- not only for this family's future, but for the future of legal immigration itself.

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Texas Teen Facing Murder Charges In Van Crash

AP | CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN | Posted 04.18.2012

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PALMVIEW, Texas -- A 15-year-old South Texas boy has been charged with nine counts of murder among other charges after a van he was driving crashed, k...

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Study: Undocumented Workers Have 'Negligible Impact' On Wages

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 04.12.2012

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Hear that? That's the sound of holes being poked in one of the most common arguments for pushing undocumented workers out of America. Undocumented ...

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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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Alabama Fools' Day

Alex Nowrasteh | Posted 04.02.2012

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On April Fools' Day Alabama's immigration law (HB 56) mandates E-Verify for all employers.

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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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Arizona Man Gets Probation In Illegal Hiring Case

AP | JACQUES BILLEAUD | Posted 03.29.2012

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PHOENIX -- An Arizona contractor who pleaded guilty to knowingly hiring undocumented immigrants was sentenced to probation in the first case in the st...

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New Law Could Outlaw Foreign Passports As Acceptable ID

Posted 03.28.2012

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They have been beaten time and time again in federal courts. And they still insist. Republican-majority Legislatures in several states continue...

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The Founders' Immigration Policy

Alex Nowrasteh | Posted 05.28.2012

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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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Latinos Won't Be Fooled by AZ's New Pro-Israel Bill

Gabriel Schivone | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Latinos, Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, North Africa, Undocumented Immigrants, Jewish, Illegal Immigrants, Palestinians, Arizona, Israel, Border Security, Latino Voices News

The challenge now will be to apply standards equally across the board--across borders and states where situations may be different in the details but fundamental human rights issues remain stubborn and constant.

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Court Upholds Ban On Texas Immigrant Housing Law

AP | Posted 03.22.2012

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DALLAS -- A federal appeals court Wednesday upheld a lower court ruling that stopped a Dallas suburb's ban on undocumented immigrants seeking housing....

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