Immigration

Symbolic Politics and U.S. Border Enforcement

Angela Kelley | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Labor, Immigration, Undocumented Immigrants, Border Fence, BORDER ISSUES, Economy, Immigration Debate, War on Terrorism, Politics News
Angela Kelley

When Chertoff testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security, he failed to consider that undocumented immigration naturally decreases when the U.S. economy is in recession.

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Is Autism an "American Disease?" Somali Immigrants Reportedly Have High Rates

David Kirby | Posted 07.24.2008 | Living

Read More: Somali, Thimerosal, Vaccine, Autism, Special Education, Minneapolis, Immigrants Autism, Somali Immigrants Autism, Health, Immigration, Autism Vaccines, Living News
David Kirby

An unusually large proportion of Somali children in Minnesota have autism. Why? There's likely a genetic connection, but other factors might be at play, including a lack of vitamin D from sunlight, or, yes, vaccinations.

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McCain Ally Counsels Alarmist Attack On Health Care

Lester Feder | Posted 07.21.2008 | Home

Read More: Health Care, John McCain, Immigration, Election 2008, Mccain, Dick Morris, Obama Healthcare, Mccain Dick Morris, Undocumented Immigrants, Senator McCain, Mccain Healthcare, Immigrants Health Insurance, Immigrants Health Care, Undocumented Immigrants Healthcare, Obama Illeagal Immigrants, Undocumented Immigrants Insurance, Mccain Health Care, Obama Health Care, Home News
Lester Feder

In the New York Post, political consultant Dick Morris cries that Obama wants to provide health insurance to undocumented immigrants as part of his plan to cover the 47 million uninsured Americans.

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Lone Star State Young Voters Talk Immigration

Ben Terris | Posted 07.15.2008 | Home

Read More: Young Voters, Texas, Mccain, Obama, Immigration, Youth, Texas Immigration Politics, Maccain Immigration, Young People Immigration, Obama Immigration, Texas Immigration, Home News
Ben Terris

All across Texas young people share similar views: they'd make illegal immigration harder and legal immigration easier. "There are plenty of jobs here, especially the kind that immigrants take."

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Mexico Must Be Part of Immigration Solution

Pius Kamau | Posted 07.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mexican Immigrants, Mexico, John McCain, Immigration, Politics News
Pius Kamau

As long as, to poor Mexicans, America is the mansion on the hill, nothing, not even walls, will stem the tide of their scuffed shoes.

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A Platform We Can Believe In, Too

Steve Ralls | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Don't Ask Don't Tell, Barack Obama 2008, Dnc, Immigration, Gay Rights, Transgender Rights, Platform, Civil Rights, Politics News
Steve Ralls

Obama's open platform process provides an opportunity for LGBT Americans to be heard, first-hand, in a way that we never have been before.

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Seth Colter Walls

McCain Avoids Immigration In Speech To Latino Voters

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Education, John McCain, Latino Voters, Immigration, Teachers, Barack Obama, Lulac, Politics News

John McCain's speechwriters must have done some homework on reaching out to Latino voters. In his speech before the League of United Latin American Ci...

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Experts: Immigration Not Key to Winning Hispanic Vote

CQ Politics | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hispanic Voters, Immigration, Obama Hispanic Voters, John McCain Immigraton, McCain Hispanic Voters, Barack Obama Immigration, Politics News

Hispanic voters have become a key target in this year's presidential race, courted heavily by both Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain. ...

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Happy "Inter-Dependence" Day!

Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Oil, 4th of July, Immigration, Energy Independence, Politics News
Steve Rosenbaum

Holidays are funny things. They being about an idea. A celebration of something. And the evolve into a more amorphous event, a celebration of ... ...

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Is She A Terrorist?

Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Australian Immigrants, Marriage, Immigration Reform, Australia, Immigration, Marriage Immigration, Airlines, Politics News
Steve Rosenbaum

I don't claim to understand immigration law -- but it seems to me that one shouldn't have to lose a father and a husband in the same six month period. Compassion ought to be part of the process somewhere.

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McCain and Obama Ignore Abuses in Colombia and Mexico

Roberto Lovato | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: HEMISPHERIC AFFAIRS, McCain and Latin America, U.S. Latin America Policy, McCain and Colombia, John McCain, Immigration, Global Migration, Elections, Colombia Hostages and McCain, Obama, Mccain, Central America, Latino Vote, Obama and Latin America, Barack Obama, Economics, National Security, Obama and Colombia, Latino Politics, Posted in BORDER ISSUES, Repression in Latin America, Obama and Mexico, Politics News
Roberto Lovato

McCain and Obama's failure to denounce the atrocities committed by the governments of Colombia and Mexico may signal that neither will be the "change" candidate when it comes to U.S. policy in Latin America.

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McCain On Immigration Watchdogged By AZ Blogger

Posted 07.03.2008 | Home

Read More: Immigration Reform, Presidential Campaign 2008, John McCain, John Mccain Campaign 2008, Amnesty, Hispanics GOP, Immigration, Hispanics, Border Security, Richard Kimball, Home News

The conservative Arizona blog "Seeing Red AZ" ran a post this week referencing a Washington Times piece on, depending how you view it, either McCain's...

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Did Obama Really Torpedo Immigration Reform?

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Gop, Immigration Reform, Immigration, Senate Immigration Bill, Democrats, Latino Voters, Barack Obama, John McCain, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The immigration reform bill killing amendments, and Obama's vote on them, give McCain the hook he needs to lambaste Obama as an immigration reform spoiler.

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Seth Colter Walls

Primer Impacto: How Spanish-Language Ads Could Decide The Election

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Latino Voters, Advertising, Immigration, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Politics News

In a year of political milestones, prepare to add one more to the heap. Come this fall, Spanish-speaking Americans -- a community not always paid the ...

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The Guantanamization of Immigrant Detention

Roberto Lovato | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Immigration, Esperanza, Global Migration, Sovereignty Issues, ICE Detention, Empire, BORDER ISSUES, ICE Abuse, Immigrant Detention, National Security, Latino Politics, ICE Detention Deaths, Activism, Night of 1000 Conversations, Hope, Race, Guantanamo and Detention, Politics News
Roberto Lovato

What makes Ahmed's story noteworthy is that it reflects how many of these torturous practices are now being perpetrated against detainees held within the borders of the US.

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The Disintegration of John McCain

Paul Jenkins | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: 2004 Election, North Dakota, Nebraska, Ron Paul, Washington, Economy, George W. Bush, Bob Barr, Oregon, Immigration, Iraq, Democratic Party, Missouri, Virginia, Montana, Gay Rights, Abba, John Kerry, New Hampshire, Technology, Mississippi, Republican Party, North Carolina, Alaska, John McCain, Campaign Finance, Mitt Romney, Congress, Pennsylvania, 2008 Election, Minnesota, Barack Obama, 2000 Election, Wisconsin, South Carolina, Environment, Tennessee, Libertarian Party, Indiana, Politics News
Paul Jenkins

Even still-enamored journalists cannot fail to notice that it would be difficult to find a candidate less suited for the times or the office than McCain right now.

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Empire or Democracy: Are We Ready for the Fall?

John W. Whitehead | Posted 06.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Empire, Morality, Democracy, War in Iraq, Economy, Fascism, Military Industrial Complex, Rome, Environment, Immigration, Diplomacy, Credit Crunch, Politics News
John W. Whitehead

As resources are drained, the principles inherent in a democratic republic will be compromised by what is needed to sustain a militaristic empire like the US.

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Meet "Juan Crow"

J. Richard Cohen | Posted 06.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Anti-Immigration Movement Racist Roots, Immigration, Juan Crow, Justeen Mancha, Boubacar Bah, Politics News
J. Richard Cohen

Just as Jim Crow laws in the South once ensured that blacks remained "in their place," the hysterical over-reaction to illegal immigration is turning immigrants in second-class citizens.

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Review: Sons and Other Flammable Objects

Mike Bonifer | Posted 06.12.2008 | Media

Read More: Review, Iran, Immigration, Bonifer, Sons and Other Flammable Objects, America, Porochista Khakpour, Media News
Mike Bonifer

I dug the book a lot, but after having read it, and not always while I was reading it. The central male characters are so misogynistic they can alienate you completely.

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Dear President, From Postville

Sally Kohn | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Community Values, Raids, John McCain, Iowa, George W. Bush, Immigration, Election 2008, Barack Obama, Barack Obama Iowa, Politics News
Sally Kohn

Postville, Iowa is a half-way house for the American dream, a dream deferred for many. And it's a microcosm of the issues facing our next President.

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McCain's Veepstakes Dilemma

Christopher Ingram | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Taxes, Abortion, Republican National Committee, Al Gore, Gop, Florida, John McCain, Campaigns, Haley Barbour, George W. Bush, Immigration, Conservative, Race, Washington Establishment, Barack Obama, Lobbyist, Dick Cheney, Charlie Crist, Dan Quayle, George H.W. Bush, American Conservative Union, Wedge Issues, Hurricane Katrina, Hillary Clinton, Veepstakes, Missippi, Christopher Ingram, Politics News
Christopher Ingram

The question in deciding whom to pick for your VP running mate basically boils down to two things: geographic benefit and filling a void. McCain's weakness is his lack of support from conservatives.

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Even Bigger than The Hype: Obama's Candidacy as World-Historical

Shahid Buttar | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Reverend Wright and Racism, Colonialism, John McCain, Mccain, Grassroots, 2008 Recession, Obama, Immigration, Diplomacy, Post-Colonialism, Equal Opportunity, Recession, Racial Profiling, Barack Obama, McCain Iraq, Obama Diplomacy, Nelson Mandela, John McCain 2008, Benazir Bhutto, Economic Recession, Obama 2008, Racism, Discrimination, Middle East Diplomacy, McCain 2008, History, Politics News
Shahid Buttar

But even though racial inequities persist, there is no doubt that the first black President will be a milestone, a watershed seemingly unthinkable before Obama's meteoric candidacy.

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Going Toe to Toe With Lou Dobbs

David Sirota | Posted 06.10.2008 | Media

Read More: Lou Dobbs, Immigration, Populism, David Sirota Lou Dobbs, Media News
David Sirota

Dobbs epitomizes both the positive potential of today's populist uprising to change our country's economic policies, and the negative potential to stoke anti-immigrant and xenophobic sentiment.

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Border Wall Resistance Heats Up

Marisa Treviño | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Border Wall, San Diego, Mexico, Texas, Illegal Immigrants, Immigration, Hispanics, Politics News
Marisa Treviño

Homeland Security is determined to construct as much fencing as they can along the US/Mexico border while the Bush is in office. But they're being stymied by strong resistance from local residents.

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The Foreigners are Coming, the Foreigners are Coming!

Cheryl Pearl Sucher | Posted 06.04.2008 | Living

Read More: Immigrants, Immigration, Real Estate, Weak Dollar, New York City, Living News
Cheryl Pearl Sucher

I'm considering studying Gaelic, Sanskrit, Korean and Mandarin. Enough to be conversational. Otherwise, how will I be able to get around New York?

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