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This Thanksgiving Remember the Immigrant, Pilgrim

Jim Wallis | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Christians, Households, Family, Children, Holidays, Holiday, Thanksgiving, Community, United States, Immigration System, Immigration, Families, Christians for Comprehensive Immigration Reform, America, Deportation, Government, Immigrant, Parent, Immigration Reform, Wife, Christian, Faith, Citizen, Politics News
Jim Wallis

The broken nature of America's immigration system is deeply felt during the holidays by millions in the United States who long to be reunited with their loved ones.

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Speaking for God and for America's Top Cops - the Center for Immigration Studies

Adam Luna | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Law Enforcement, James R. Edwards, America's Voice, William Bratton, Immigration, Southern Poverty Law Center, Religion, Nativist, Mark Krikorian, Immigrant, Center for Immigration Studies, Federation for American Immigration Reform, Anti-Immigrant, Bratton, Krikorian, Cis, Politics News
Adam Luna

America's top religious and law enforcement leaders are taking a strong stance in favor of sensible immigration reform and it's made the anti-immigrant crowd very nervous.

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Google Cofounder Gives To Charity That Helped Him Escape Anti-Semitism

Huffington Post | Victoria Fine | Posted 11.02.2009 | Impact

Read More: Sergey Brin, Google, Immigrant, Sergey Brin Donate, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, Hias, Impact News

How many times do you use Google every day? Next time you're checking stocks, researching at work or cyber-stalking an ex-boyfriend, take a minute to ...

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Home Is Where The Bingo Tournament Is

Angella Nazarian | Posted 10.22.2009 | Books

Read More: Iran, New Books, Immigrant, Books News
Angella Nazarian

If I close my eyes and think of a time that I felt most at home, one particular image comes to mind: me, at age seven with my mom at a bingo tournament by the Caspian Sea.

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National Association of Evangelicals Provides Moral Model on Immigration Reform

Jim Wallis | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Citizenship, Undocumented Immigrants, Nae, Biblical, Immigration, Immigrants, Evangelicals, Migrants, Leith Anderson, Legislative Debate, Immigrant, Immigration Reform, Biblical Foundations, Bible, National Association of Evangelicals, Politics News
Jim Wallis

Church leaders who have been personally and privately supportive of immigrants and their struggles have now publicly declared that it is morally wrong to keep families apart.

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GOP: This Is Your Future Calling (and Sorry, It's Brown)

Frank Sharry | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Congressman Gutierrez, Michael Gerson, Ben Smith, Gop, America's Voice, Luis Gutierrez, Mel Martinez, Latino, www.gop.com, Politico, Senator Mel Martinez, Immigrant, Republican Party, Politics News
Frank Sharry

Republican politicians have been guilty of using immigrants as a wedge issue for so long that they are in real danger of sacrificing their future with Latino, minority, and swing voters.

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VIDEO: Lou Dobbs vs. 'Latino in America'

Arturo Perez | Posted 10.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Lou Dobbs, Immigration, Immigrant, Dobbs, Cnn, Illegal Immigrants, Mexican Immigrants, Soledad O'Brien, Lou Dobbs Tonight, Rick Sanchez, Media News
Arturo Perez

I decided to start writing to Dobbs, pointing out his many errors, and the danger his words could cause. I don't know how many emails I wrote, but needless to say, he never wrote me back.

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Immigrant Family Fears Foreclosure Of American Dream

The Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 11.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Foreclosures, Foreclosure Crisis, Mental Health, Psychological Health, Medical Debt, Harvest America, Bearing Witness 2.0, Immigration, Foreclosure, Immigrant, Bearing Witness, Home Foreclosures, Business News

As part of the Huffington Post's effort to bear witness to the effects of the current economic environment on ordinary Americans, we're rounding up so...

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Health Care, Immigrants, and the Character of Our Country

Jim Wallis | Posted 11.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: White House, Law, Allison Johnson, Debate, Undocumented Immigrants, President Obama, Scripture, Media, Health Care Plan, Immigration, Immigrants, Christians for Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Legislation, Immigration Status, Faith Groups, Fact Checkers, Moral Obligation, Public Policies, Immigrant, Immigrant Children, Christian Scriptures, Members of Congress, Values, Pregnant Women, Policy Debate, Health Care Coverage, Moral Priorities, Teaching, Stranger, Safety Net, Health Care, Christians, Public Policy, Fear, Lying, Subsidies, Politics, Community, Basic Human Needs, Medicaid, Congress, Faith Communities, Migrants, Moral Issue, Reform Legislation, Moral Consideration, Compassion, Jewish, Moral Values, Moral Issues, Moral Mandate, Inclusion, Faith Community, Political Feasibility, Health Care Reform, Hospitals, Undocumented Immigrant, Legal Immigrants, Christian, Health Care System, Politics News
Jim Wallis

With an issue like health, the faith community has a unique and important role to play -- to define and raise the moral issues beneath the policy debate.

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What Is Work? Success Through the Immigrant Mindset

Sharon Glassman | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Network, Kinky Friedman, Living News, Work, Career Advice, Corporate Social Responsibility, Immigrant, Entrepreneurship, Work Ethic, Happiness, Sharon Glassman, Cuban-Americans, Adlai Wertman, California, Success, Glenn Llopis, Howard Beale, Living News
Sharon Glassman

"I was raised by two people who had lost their country," explains Glenn Llopis, a California-based entrepreneur with Cuban parents. "We were taught to see and seize opportunity."

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Friday Talking Points [93] -- Lies, Lies And Propaganda

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Political discussions in America are fast becoming solely theological in nature.. Each side has their beliefs. Each has their tenets which they fervently defend. Much of this is done on faith.

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Reach for the Stars

Margee Ensign | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: High School Drop Outs, Education, Unemployment, Poverty, Poor Health, Foreclosure, Immigrant, Space Shuttle Launch, Astronaut, Space Shuttle Discovery, Politics News
Margee Ensign

Jose Hernandez, son of migrant workers, will take off this week as a mission specialist in the shuttle Discovery.

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Germs Don't Care If You Are Legal Or Not

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fear, Swine Flue, Mexico, Health Healthcare, Public Health, Flu, Vaccinate, Reform, Germs, Typhoid Mary, Sanitation, Servant, Fear Mongering, Avian Flu, Germ Theory, Illegal Immigrant, Infectious, Hygiene, Chris Weigant, Infect, Disease, Sars, Germ, Vaccine, Mary Mallon, Immigrant, Undocumented Immigrant, Health Care, Influenza, Mallon, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Do you really want to limit vaccinations only to people who have legal documents, or would you rather everyone get inoculated? Remember, those you exclude will likely have some sort of contact with either you, your kids, or the food you eat at some point.

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Immigration Detainee's Death Causes Controversy

The New York Times | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Citizenship, Immigration Death, America, Pakistan, 9/11, Immigration, Deportation, World Trade Center, Immigration Reform, Green Card, Visa, Prison, Jail, Immigrant, September 11th, Immigration Policy, Ahmad Tanveer, Politics News

When the 43-year-old man died in a New Jersey immigration jail in 2005, the very fact seemed to fall into a black hole. Although a fellow inmate scraw...

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Right Wing Hate Getting Out of Control

Mike Papantonio | Posted 07.31.2009 | Media

Read More: Tiller, Gop, Air America, Murder, Donnie Baker, Mike Papantonio, Right Wing, GoLeft.Tv, Golefttv, Barack Obama, Immigrant, Conservative, Muslim, Abortion, Hate Talk, Latino, David Neiwert, Joshua Cartwright, Republicans, Ring of Fire, Media News
Mike Papantonio

About an hour's drive from where I live, a miserable 60-year old man by the name of Donnie Baker murdered two Chilean college students and wounded fiv...

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Gibbs: We Don't Have The Votes For Immigration Reform

The Hill | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Citizenship, Immigration Reform, Senate, Congress, White House, Robert Gibbs, Press Secretary, Obama Administration, Obama, Immigration, Immigrant, Press, Votes, Politics News

The votes aren't there for the Obama administration to achieve its desired immigration reform, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Friday....

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Obama Gives New American Hope

Shari Cohen | Posted 11.30.2008 | Home

Read More: Hometown Heroes, University of California, Election Day, First Time Voter Obama, Serbia, Obama, Yugoslavia, Immigration, New Voter, Barack Obama, American Citizen, Immigrant, Election 2008, Campaign 2008, Belgrade, Obama Immigrants, Voting, Home News
Shari Cohen

Meet Mitra, a 31 year old first time voter - I met her last weekend, volunteering at my local Obama campaign office. We've been working together eve...

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