WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration said Thursday it will allow many illegal immigrants facing deportation the chance to stay in this country and apply for a work permit, while focusing on removing from the U.S. convicted criminals and those who might be a national security or public safety [...]
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Immigrants who say they were hauled into jail for selling ice cream without a permit and for reporting being the victim of domestic violence had one message for a federal government task force assigned to review an information-sharing effort that gives immigration authorities access to the [...]
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CHICAGO (AP) — A Polish woman whose family was separated after the U.S. denied her a green card and deported her returned to the U.S. Monday with her American-born son, reuniting with the husband and father they’d been away from for four years. Janina Wasilewski’s case was unusual not [...]
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ALABAMA – A coalition of civil-rights, human-rights and faith groups filed a class action lawsuit Friday challenging Alabama’s recently enacted immigration law, House Bill 56. Tough anti-immigrant laws have been recently passed in a half-dozen states – Arizona, Indiana, Georgia, Utah, South Carolina and Alabama – mainly out of [...]
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Low-income families along the Texas border could lose millions of dollars over the next decade and see their voice in government even further diminished because, from the statistical reality of the federal government’s 2010 census, they don’t exist. The 10-year population count may have missed as many as 300,000 [...]
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From the moment we realize that life goes hand-in-hand with a lifestyle, vague notions of the American Dream hover in the background. Embraced or rejected, they are almost impossible to escape. Yet the definition of that dream varies. Newspaper columnists opine about the holy grail of middle-class values. Pop [...]
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e: Reporting for this story began in March, shortly before Arizona’s immigration bill, SB 1070, was signed into law. In the four months since, a national debate has raged over immigration reform, spreading from Arizona to states across the country, and coloring the political landscape. As November’s mid-term [...]
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In the dusty Arizona desert, a young man wearing only one shoe limps toward a group of college students. Thirsty and bleeding, he begs for help. He has trudged for 12 miles, all the way from the Mexican border, and says he has never made this trip before, doesn’t [...]
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When the government announces a fact or figure, be it a complex budget forecast or simple school enrollment, conventional wisdom holds that the numbers are, more or less, accurate. Not so with the U.S. Census – at least, not in the past. In 2000, more than 3 million [...]
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Apr 17 2012
Michael Seifert | Rio Grande Valley Equal Voice Network Compañero. The word means “companion,” and is from the Latin, meaning “the one I share bread with.” A compañero, then, is someone with whom you share the bread of life—be it the bread of the day’s hopes and dreams, struggles and disappointments, or blessings and bounding happiness, which, experienced alone, remain Read more →
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