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US Politics & Gov't News tagged with immigration

Obama Sets Immigration Changes for 2010
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: USA, Mexico, Canada, immigration, 2010, immigration reform )

ON VACATI
- 109 days ago - nytimes.com
Flanked by his counterparts from Mexico and Canada, President Obama on Monday reiterated his commitment to pursuing comprehensive immigration reform, despite his packed political agenda and the staunch opposition such an initiative is likely to face.
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Portal of Dreams
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: government, Immigration, Ellis Island, human rights, politics, freedoms, ideological, Cultural )

Dee
- 169 days ago - online.wsj.com
In "American Passage," Vincent J. Cannato recounts the history of Ellis Island and of the debate sparked by a sudden tide of immigration a century ago.
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Obama Says: Didn't Know Aunt's Illegal Status
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: u.s., usa, americans, candidates, elections, government, bushadministration, democrats, ethics, dishonesty, mccain, news, obama, politics, republicans, immigration, illegal immigration, lies, law, campaign 2008, election 2008 )

SirRobert
- 392 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
What nephew would rat out his own Aunt, let's get serious!? Obama says he was not aware that one of his relatives was living inside the United States illegally, and believes the appropriate laws should be enforced!
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Deported Undocumented Immigrants Face Shattered Lives
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: deportation, "undocumented immigrants", Mexicans, immigration, "Immigrant Rights" )

Clever
- 461 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
Over the past 5 years, deportations from US to Mexico have increased 60%. Many of those caught up in the immigration crackdown have few ties to their "native" land.
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McCain's Immigration Flip Flop
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: John McCain, immigration, Latinos, borders, Campaign 2008, flip flopper )

Blue
- 522 days ago - politico.com
"I don't think [McCain] can appease the hard-core xenophobes and convince the Latinos he is standing up for them at the same time, I think he has to pick a side and make it clear. Is he going after the votes of the xenophobes?" said Cecilia Munoz,
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Fox News: Laura Ingraham: Latinos Aren't Americans   video
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: FOx News, Bill O'Reilly, Laura Ingraham, Latino, immigration, politics, ethics, bigots, racists, right wingnuts, Christians )

Blue
- 573 days ago - youtube.com
substituting for Bill O'Reilly, conservative radio host Laura Ingraham made a point in a discussion of immigration to note that someone can be "American OR Latino". Because surely nobody could be both, right?
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Immigration, Outsourced
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: immigration, outlaw sheriff )


- 598 days ago - nytimes.com
To see how unhinged things have become, it pays to zero in on the squalid doings in Maricopa County, Ariz. It is run by the county sheriff, Joe Arpaio, who has built a national reputation for toughness through years of cruelty to prison inmates and an ins
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World's Nicest Man
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: immigration, no-fly list, terrorists, anti-Muslim profiling )


- 599 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
How do we welcome him into the US? Why, detain him and confiscate his passport, of course. What else do you do with a Muslim, even if he is a Nobel Peace Prize candidate?
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Sexual Abuse Fueled By Abusive Immigration Language
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: Women's rights, immigration )


- 601 days ago - alternet.org
Describing immigrants in dehumanizing terms like "illegals" turns immigrant women into targets for sexist oppressors, from anti-choicers to rapists.
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Major Grower Ends Crop, Lacking Workers
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: immigration, usa )


- 614 days ago - rawstory.com
"A lot of people think with immigration that we're talking about immigrants taking jobs from others. Let me tell you, there is no local labor that is going to go out and harvest those tomatoes in 90-degree temperatures except our immigrant labor," Eckel s
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GOP Lobbyist Had No Work Permit
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: immigration )


- 647 days ago - sfgate.com
A former California Republican Party official who resigned last year in a controversy over his immigration status had no valid visa or work permit during his high-profile career as a Washington lobbyist for conservative icon Grover Norquist, newly filed c
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Immigrant Bashing for Colonial Control
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: Immigration, colonialism, corporatism, slavery )


- 677 days ago - dissidentvoice.org
Colonial administration always relies on creating dissension between subjugated "native" tribes and populations. The fundamental white-power core of the American ruling class manages the nation in the colonial style.
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Privatized Prisons for Immigrants: The Expansion Continues
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: immigration, borders, prisons )

Brian
- 682 days ago - scholarsandrogues.com
The rise of the prison-industrial complex is one the most disturbing things going on in this country, and like the military-industrial complex, both major parties are implicated in the human rights abuses taking place in the name of border security.
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NY County Clerks Rebel Against Governor's Plan to License Illegals
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: illegal aliens, immigration, drivers license, homeland security, county heroes, government )

David
- 784 days ago - davickservices.com
New York's County Clerks say they will not cooperate with Governor Spitzer's plan to issue driver's licenses to illegal aliens and will refuse to issue the licenses from their offices... Video Report
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ICE Bungles Raid in Idaho
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: immigration, raids, ICE )


- 800 days ago - mtexpress.com
Immigration agents seize 20 suspected illegal aliens. ACLU investigating to see if civil rights were violated. "They pounded on my door so hard that my walls shook," said Dana Ayala, a Filipino native and U.S. citizen...."
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