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Depression and Suicide Rise for Hispanic Teenagers in Queens

Ruchika Tulshyan | Posted 12.17.2009 | New York

Read More: Mexican Immigrants, Latinos, Undocumented Immigrants, Colombia, Queens, Colombian Immigrants, Suicide, Immigrants, Immigration, Hispanics, Elmhurst Hospital, Make the Road New York, New York News
Ruchika Tulshyan

There are a growing number of severely depressed Hispanic adolescents in Queens who hide suicide attempts. In some traditional pockets, to talk about mental illness is considered shameful.

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Stewart Airport Workers Charged With Using Fake Immigration Documents

AP | Posted 12.17.2009 | New York

Read More: Newburgh, New York, Illegal Immigration, Immigrants, Airplanes, Tsa, Stewart Airport, New York News

NEWBURGH, N.Y. — Authorities say a dozen workers at a warehouse at an upstate New York airport have been charged with using forged immigration d...

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Immigration Sweep: Raid Nets 280 With Criminal Records

AP | AMY TAXIN | Posted 12.11.2009 | Los Angeles

Read More: Immigration Reform, Immigration, Immigrants, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Illegal Immigration, Illegal Immigrants, Los Angeles News

LOS ANGELES — Immigration agents arrested 280 people in California in their biggest push yet to round up suspected illegal immigrants with crimi...

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Despite Successes, Problems Remain Organizing Queens' Immigrant Tenants

Vinnie Rotondaro | Posted 12.10.2009 | New York

Read More: Astoria, Queens Vantage Tenants Council, New York Real Estate, Jackson Heights, Renting, New York City Apartments, Immigrants, Immigration, Queens New York, Landlords, Chhaya, New York News
Vinnie Rotondaro

For years, advocates in New York have worked to organize renters against landlords that try to harass tenants out of their buildings. One of the most difficult areas to mobilize has been Queens.

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The Best Books of the Decade

Anis Shivani | Posted 12.10.2009 | Books

Read More: Snow, My Name Is Red, The Museum of Innocence, White Teeth, Aleksander Hemon, Orhan Pamuk, Civil Liberties, Dystopian Fiction, Modernization, Margaret Atwood, William Boyd, Multiculturalism, Philip Roth, Oryx and Crake, Netherland, Immigrants, Zadie Smith, Joseph O'Neill, Poetry, Fundamentalism, Terrorism, The Plot Against America, Iraq War, Post-9/11 America, Bush Administration, Racism, Islam, Books News
Anis Shivani

Orhan Pamuk's The Museum of Innocence will be interpreted by clueless reviewers as one about "obsession," just as they might view Nabokov's Lolita to be about "pedophilia."

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Ahead Of 2010 Census, New York Gets Population Boost From Immigrants

AP | HOPE YEN | Posted 12.09.2009 | New York

Read More: 2010 Census, Census, Population, Immigration, Immigrants, New York Gets Population Boost, New York, New York City, New York News

WASHINGTON — A steady flow of new immigrants is providing a late-decade population boost to major metropolitan areas such as Chicago, Miami, New...

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Stupak: The Worst Case Scenario for Latinas

Rocio L. Córdoba | Posted 12.07.2009 | Los Angeles

Read More: Latinos, Abortion Rights, Reproductive Rights, Stupak Amendment, Health Care Reform, Immigrants, Health Care, Latina, Immigration Debate, Los Angeles News
Rocio L. Córdoba

Health care reform must protect access to comprehensive reproductive health care, including abortion services coverage, and ensure that all Californians, including immigrants, are covered.

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The Big Muslim Problem

The New York Review of Books | Malise Ruthven | Posted 12.17.2009 | Books

Read More: Islam, Islamic Immigrants, Books, England, European Culture, European Muslims, Immigration, Immigrants, New York Review of Books, Muslim Immigration, Muslims, Europe, Al Jazeera, Christopher Caldwell, Arab Immigrants, Nyr, Books News

Malise Ruthven The New York Review of Books "Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West" by Christopher Caldwell Doubl...

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More Americans Now Turning To Day Labor Jobs Once Held By Illegal Immigrants

usatoday.com | Emily Bazar | Posted 11.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Housing Market, Low Wages, Unemployment, Day Labor, Illegal Immigrants, Migrant Labor, Manual Labor, Financial Crisis, Immigrants, Day Laborers, Recession, Business News

Growing ranks of U.S. citizens are heading to street corners and home improvement store parking lots to find day-labor work usually done by illegal im...

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Truck Carrying 18 Immigrants Falls Off Cliff In Texas (VIDEO)

AP | Posted 11.26.2009 | Home

Read More: Cliff, Illigal Immigrants, Illigal Immigration, Truck Cliff, Illegal Immigrant Truck Fall, Mexico, Immigrants, Mcallen Texas, Border Patrol, Truck Falls Off Cliff, Immigration, Home News

McALLEN, Texas (AP)— Authorities say a truck carrying illegal immigrants from Guatemala and Mexico has plummeted more than 40 feet off a cliff i...

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The Barrio: Home To Immigrants, Mother Cabrini And My Inner Child

Wayne Trujillo | Posted 11.23.2009 | Denver

Read More: Urban Renewal, Hispanics, Latinos, Mother Cabrini, Immigrants, Denver, Highlands, Catholicism, Italians, Denver News
Wayne Trujillo

I happened upon this barrio, East Highlands, as a college student. Paradoxically, 20 years later, my education and professional experience allowed me to move into the neighborhood.

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Health Care: Keep Your Eyes on the Prize

Jim Wallis | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dialogue, Fundamentalism, Culture War, Health Care Plan, Compromise, Immigrants, Poor, Health Care Provider, Abortion, Values, Health Care Coverage, Insurance Plan, Contraception, Poverty Reduction, Justice, Pro-Life Democrats, Member of Congress, Health Care, Status Quo, Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Health Insurance Reform, Religion, Pregnancies, Democracy, Abortion Reduction, Culture Wars, Subsidies, Public Option, Tax Dollars, Common Ground, Medicaid, Families, Federal Subsidies, Stereotype, Healthcare, Interpretation, Moral Values, Agendas, Progressive, Culture Warrior, Women, Application, Health Plan, Principle, Segregation, Faith Community, Schip, Abortion Debate, Moral Imperative, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Healthcare Reform, Religious Community, Rhetoric, Politics News
Jim Wallis

We've recently seen the abortion rhetoric really heat up to ridiculous proportions. Those with opposing views are being stereotyped and demonized. And facts are taking a back seat to sound bytes.

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CNN Drops Dobbs: To All Those Who Joined Us in the Drop Dobbs Campaign

Janet Murguía | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Lou Dobbs's, Intolerance, Crime, Vigilantes, American, Immigrants, Fair, Resignation, Drop Dobbs, Biased Coverage, Fired-From-Cnn, Distortions, Media Matters, Falsehoods, Latino, Misrepresentations, Disease, Inaccurate, Hate Groups, Pejorative, Nativists, Federation for American Immigration Reform, Immigration Debate, Media News
Janet Murguía

Yesterday's resignation came after thousands of people and organizations pressured CNN to stop Dobbs's biased coverage of our community and the immigration debate.

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Is Dobbs Lying Again?

Mario Solis-Marich | Posted 10.30.2009 | Denver

Read More: Immigration Reform, Lou Dobbs, Immigrants, Immigration, Lou Dobbs Shots, Sussex County, Denver News
Mario Solis-Marich

Law enforcement believes that the shots were from straying area hunters and claim that shots are fired in the area during hunting season very, very often.

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Cambodian Youth Program Leader Awarded $25,000 Peace Prize

Posted 10.29.2009 | Impact

Read More: Education, Human Services, Phalen Lim, Employment, Youth Programs, Khmer Rouge, Cambodia, Immigrants, Immigration, Impact News

Phalen Lim fled Cambodia at the age of 2 in 1975, during the regime of the Khmer Rouge, and has never forgotten what it was like to start over as an i...

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Let's Be on the Right Side of History

Deepak Bhargava | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Congress, Immigrants, Latino Vote, Medicaid, Health Care, Immigration Debate, Politics News
Deepak Bhargava

Faced now with an incredible opportunity to reform health care, we must ensure we are on the right side of history and our truest values of inclusion.

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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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Immigration Rally: Immigration Reform Advocates Gather At Capitol Hill

The New York Times | Ian Urbina | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Immigration Reform, Capitol Hill, Illegal Immigration, Reform Immigration for America, Immigration, Immigrants, Immigration Bill, National Capital Immigration Coalition, Hispanic Caucus, Overhaul, Obama, Reform, Immigration Law, Politics News

Thousands of immigrants came to Capitol Hill on Tuesday for a day of lobbying and an afternoon rally calling for comprehensive immigration reform. Th...

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Every Little Bit Hurts -- Figuring Out Trashy Behavior

Mark Olmsted | Posted 12.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Greening Hollywood, Immigrants, Trash, Green Living, Social Class, Litter, Hollywood, Littering, Green News
Mark Olmsted

Some of the worst offenders were the middle-aged men who smoked mountains of Capri cigarettes; if I had $5 for every one I eventually picked up, I would now be living in a villa inCapri.

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Charter Schools Fail Immigrants

Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Schools, Immigrants, Education, Arne Duncan, English Language Learner, Charter Schools, Ell, Politics News
Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj

Why is there a glaring mismatch between charter school enrollments and the growing English language learner population?

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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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The Stranger in Everyday Life

Reverend Billy | Posted 11.23.2009 | New York

Read More: Consumerism, Neighborhoods, New York City, Jane Jacobs, City Life, Urban Planning, Developers, Surveillance, Immigrants, JFK Airport, New York News
Reverend Billy

The city-as-monoculture can only continue with surveillance, stop-and-frisks, eminent domain, developer tax windfalls and all the illegal activity brazenly called Progress and New York Greatness.

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Recession Hits Immigrants Hard: Survey Finds Decline In Foreign-Born Residents For First Time In 40 Years

Wall Street Journal | CONOR DOUGHERTY and MIRIAM JORDAN | Posted 11.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Naturalization, Brookings Intstitute, Census, Illegal Immigration, Recession, Immigration, Immigrants, Census Bureau, Economy, Business News

The number of foreign-born residents of the U.S. declined for the first time since at least 1970, as a recession and tight labor market dented America...

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The Real Health Care and Immigration Questions

Ali Noorani | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, National Immigration Forum, Immigrants, Immigration, Undocumented Immigrants, Health Care, Politics News
Ali Noorani

Claims that undocumented immigrants would benefit or even participate in a reformed health insurance system are false. Medicare and Medicaid already do a good job of excluding ineligible immigrants.

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NYPD Intelligence Division: Botching Its Biggest Terrorism Plot?

Len Levitt | Posted 11.21.2009 | New York

Read More: Nypd, Ahmad Wais Afzali, Queens, Flushing, Terrorism, New York City, American Muslims, Najibullah Zazi, Immigrants, Denver, New York News
Len Levitt

The Intelligence Division's lone wolves appear to have mishandled the investigation into New York's first known major terrorism threat since 9/11.

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