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Immigration Debate

Fighting for Workers?

Eliseo Medina | Posted 12.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Immigration Reform, Americas-Voice, Immigration Debate, Seiu, Employee Free Choice Act, America's Voice Education Fund, Labor Unions, Deportation, Republicans, Politics News
Eliseo Medina

Members of the anti-immigrant Immigration Reform Caucus in Congress are now trying to co-opt a "pro-worker agenda" in a ruthless effort to push their extremist mass deportation agenda.

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Architecture for Immigration Reform, a University of Denver Report

Jim Griesemer | Posted 12.10.2009 | Denver

Read More: Immigration Reform, Citizenship, Amnesty, Visas, BORDER ISSUES, Immigration Debate, H1B Visa, Illegal Immigration, Denver News
Jim Griesemer

Trying to deport some 12 million people who can't be found, and most of whom live in families where some members are citizens and some are illegal, is not a realistic option.

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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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Without an Inclusive Job Policy, There Will Be No Recovery

Victor Corral | Posted 12.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: White House, Immigration Reform, Xenophobia, Jobs Summit, Lou Dobbs, Racism, Immigration, Center for American Progress, Immigration Policy, Immigration Debate, Politics News
Victor Corral

If we want to ensure a real and sustainable economic recovery, we must pass inclusive, comprehensive immigration reform that legalizes immigrants in the US.

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To Bill O'Reilly: You Lose Dobbs Bet

J. Richard Cohen | Posted 11.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Lou Dobbs, Fox News, Cnn, Southern Poverty Law Center, Bill O'Reilly, Immigration Debate, Habitat for Humanity, Media News
J. Richard Cohen

Dear Bill, You lost the bet. Time to pay up! Sincerely yours, J. Richard Cohen

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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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NJ Law Enforcement Appear to Contradict Dobbs' Version of Gunfire Incident

Isabel Macdonald | Posted 10.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Lou Dobbs, National Council of La Raza, Cnn, America's Voice, Drop Dobbs, Basta Dobbs, Geraldo Rivera, Immigration, Lou Dobbs Shots, Wolf Blitzer, Immigration Debate, Media News
Isabel Macdonald

New Jersey state police appear to be contradicting CNN Host Lou Dobbs' account of a gunfire incident near his Sussex County, New Jersey, house.

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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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Gustavo De La Rosa, Mexican Human Rights Activist, Detained By U.S.

washingtonpost.com | William Booth | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

Read More: Mexican Immigrants, Immigration Reform, Illegal Immigrants, Mexican Trucks, Mexico, Gustavo De La Rosa, Immigration, Immigration Debate, Mexico Drug Wars, Mexican Immigration, World News

MEXICO CITY -- Gustavo de la Rosa looks over his shoulder, notes suspicious license plates, changes his routine. As one of the most prominent human ri...

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Republicans Push Immigration Measure To Take Focus Off Health Care

McClatchy | William Douglas | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Republicans Immigration, GOP Immigration, U.S. Census, Hispanic Caucus, Census Citizenship, Democrats Immigration, Census Citizenship Status, Census Immigration, Immigration, Bob Bennett Immigration, Hispanics, David Vitter Immigration, Immigration Debate, Politics News

Immigration, an issue placed on the congressional backburner by attempts to revamp the nation's health care system, is percolating again as Republican...

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Joe Arpaio Enforcement Powers Cut By Fed After Racial Profiling Complaints

AP | SUZANNE GAMBOA | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Feds Cut Arpaio Power, Arizona Sheriff Racial Profiling, Sheriff Arpaio, Arpaio Immigration Enforcement, Arpaio Racial Profiling, Arpaio Investigation, Justice Department Arpaio, Arpaio Immigrant Profiling, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Immigration Debate, Homeland Security Sheriff Arpaio, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has signed up 55 state and local law enforcement agencies to help enforce immigration laws, including an A...

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Wilmer Rivera Melendez: Man Arrested In Brooklyn Fraud Scheme Targeting Guyanese Immigrants

AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 10.16.2009 | New York

Read More: Immigration Fraud, Immigration Reform, Wilmer Rivera Melendez, Brooklyn, Illegal Immigrants, Guyanese Immigrants Brooklyn, Immigration, Guyana, Immigration Debate, New York, New York City, Guyanese Immigrants, New York News

NEW YORK — A convicted bigamist posing as a veteran immigration lawyer scammed thousands of dollars from Guyanese immigrants and gave them advic...

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Immigration Battle Heats Up During Health Care Debate

washingtonpost.com | Spencer S. Hsu | Posted 11.15.2009 | World

Read More: Undocumented Immigrants, Illegal Immigration, Obama, Immigration, Health Insurance, Obama Health Care, Immigration Reform, Barack Obama, Illegal Immigrants, Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Healthcare Reform, Health Care, Immigration Debate, Healthcare, World News

As Congress's debate over health-care legislation lumbers toward a defining test for the Obama presidency, partisans on both sides of another issue --...

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Post-9/11 Immigration Debate Needs Shift in Focus

Rinku Sen | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Immigration Reform, Immigration, Undocumented Immigrants, Immigration Debate, Politics News
Rinku Sen

We must reclaim the debate and change our language. We need to challenge the criminalization of undocumented workers by labeling them "illegal." We need to stand up for full inclusion of immigrants.

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America's Broken Immigration System

Wajahat Ali | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Immigration Reform, Immigration, Obama's Immigration Reform, Detained Immigrants, Detention Centers, Mexico Immigration, John Morton, Holly Cooper, Bush Immigration Policy, Obama Administration, Ice, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Florence Project of Arizona, Bill Clinton Immigration, Immigration Debate, Politics News
Wajahat Ali

Our tone deaf reliance on the private sectors to perform public functions without an enforceable system of regulations has produced an abusive system depriving individuals of basic rights.

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Is Now the Right Time for Immigration Reform? Chuck Schumer, the Sensenbrenner in Liberal's Clothes

Anis Shivani | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Citizenship, Detention, Biometric Identification, 2006 Immigration Bill, Illegal Immigration, Numbersusa, Jeff Sessions, Immigrants, Immigration, James Sensenbrenner, Jim Webb, Deportation, 2007 Immigration Bill, Obama Administration, Peter Schey, DREAM Act, Illegal Immigrants, Tom Daschle, McCain-Kennedy Immigration Bill, Racism, Visas, Earned Legalization, Undocumented-Immigrants, Legalization, Immigration Debate, 1986 Immigration Reform, John McCain, Alberto Gonzalez, Rush Limbaugh, Homeland Security, La Raza, Xenophobia, Amnesty, Lou Dobbs, E-Verify, Chuck Hagel, Jon Kyl, Ted Kennedy, John Cornyn, Immigration Reform, John Ashcroft, Rahm Emanuel, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, 2005 Sensenbrenner Bill, Lulac, Organized Labor, Broken Borders, Chuck Schumer, Mexican Immigration, Torture, National Identification Card, Politics News
Anis Shivani

The Schumer mandate for the undocumented to register within a short period of time, or else be permanently barred from becoming U.S. residents, is a prime example of the law run amok.

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Good News on Immigration Detention But Keeping the Pressure On

Michelle Brané | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Preventive Detention, Asylum Seekers, Immigration Reform, Obama Immigration, Immigration Debate, Immigrant Detention, Immigration Detention Centers, Politics News
Michelle Brané

Some 440,000 immigrants and asylum-seekers are expected to be detained in the U.S. this year. We need to be realistic. We need immigration reform and that has to come from Congress.

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How to Be Pro-American

Deepak Chopra | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Americanism, Birther-Movement, Immigration Debate, Barack Obama, World Super Power, Birthers, Patriotism, American Super Power, Immigration, Nativists, Politics News
Deepak Chopra

A new kind of Americanism is being shaped now. Obama exemplifies one aspect, looking out on the world and accepting it rather than looking inward to America and rejecting everyone else.

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What the NAACP Means to Me

Rinku Sen | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Racial Politics, Multiracial, Immigration, Race, Naacp Centennial, Immigration Debate, Naacp, Politics News
Rinku Sen

The essential challenge facing the NAACP is being a racial justice leader in a multiracial nation.

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Schumer Says Reform by Labor Day, While Cowardly Democrats Vote with Sessions

Frank Sharry | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Chuck Schumer, Immigration Reform, President Obama, Al Franken, Independent Voters, Appropriations, Dianne Feinstein, Jeff Sessions, Immigration, Amy Klobuchar, Immigration Debate, Jared Polis, Politics News
Frank Sharry

Why are Democrats letting Senator Sessions set the agenda with empty, irrelevant, "build the fence bigger" immigration amendments?

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Holder Pushes Hate Crime Bill in Wake of Recent Wave of Hate

Janet Murguía | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mexicans, Attacks, Hate Crimes, Congress, Nclr, Attorney General Eric Holder, Violence, Fbi, Immigrants, Southern Poverty Law Center, Eric Holder, Hate Crime Legislation, Dr. George Tiller, Eric Holder Attorney General, Hateful Rhetoric, Suffolk-County, u.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Talk Show Hosts, Jose Osvaldo Sucuzhanay, Elected Officials, Immigration Debate, Latinos, Shenandoah, Shooting, Senate Judiciary Committee, Hate Crimes Bill, Hispanic, Pennsylvania, New York, Murder, Luis Ramirez, Marcelo Lucero, National Council of La Raza, Ecuadorean, Politics News
Janet Murguía

Hate has always been present. But the recent spike in violence against immigrants is being fanned by the flames of the anger and hateful rhetoric being voiced in the debate over immigration.

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Weilding ICE Sticks on the Local Beat

Tess Thatcher | Posted 07.26.2009 | World

Read More: Immigration Enforcement, Immigration Reform, Immigration, 287 (G), Immigration Policy, Immigration Debate, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, World News
Tess Thatcher

New guidelines have tweaked how enforcement should happen, but one hornet that tends to escape high-level debate in the swarm of secure borders is who should be doing the enforcing.

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Reform Immigration for America

Deepak Bhargava | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Immigration Reform, Immigration, Undocumented Immigrants, Immigration Debate, Politics News
Deepak Bhargava

Americans don't understand is that our system is so broken that there is virtually no legal way for immigrants to come to our country.

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Persecuted Often Find Prison in the United States

Human Rights First | Posted 06.19.2009 | World

Read More: Immigration Reform, Human Rights, Imprisonment, Prison, Human Rights First, Immigrants Prison, Immigration, Immigration Debate, World News
Human Rights First

Welcoming the persecuted with handcuffs and prison uniforms is simply not consistent with this country's values or its commitments under refugee protection and human rights conventions.

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National Day of Action - May 1st

Christine Neumann-Ortiz | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Immigration Reform, May 1st, Day of Action, Immigration Debate, Obama Immigration, Politics News
Christine Neumann-Ortiz

Why am I marching on May 1st? Because I am the daughter of immigrants; because working to survive is not a crime; because I believe in the American people who have challenged unjust laws throughout history.

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