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11:55pm January 20, 2013

Immigration update: deferred action, immigration reform and tech, & more

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Adriana Maestas

Adriana Maestas is the senior contributing editor of Politic365.com. She has covered issues ranging from immigration and higher education to health care policy. Adriana holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of California, Irvine and a master’s degree in public policy from Claremont Graduate University. You can find her on twitter: @LatinoPolitics

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What are We Signing Onto When We Sign On to Immigration Reform?

Last week the Judiciary Committee of the Senate discussed and debated amendments to S. 744, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013 aka #CIR2013. The bill which came out of the bip...

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African-Americans Must Take ‘Right Side’ of the Issue, Black Leaders Say

(TriceEdneyWire.com) – More than 50 years since the civil rights struggle for the right to vote and racial desegregation for African-Americans, a new kind of racial and ethnic battle is raging in America. The issue of immigra...

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Video – Heritage Foundation Author: Non-Whites Not As Smart as Whites

In a recently released video from an American Enterprise Institute, Heritage Foundation analyst Jason Richwine asserts that Latinos, as well as Native Americans, and blacks have demonstrated that they are incapable of “a...

by Sara Inés Calderón

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The Latest On Immigration Reform Policy

We spoke to University of Texas at Austin Government Professor and immigration policy expert Terri Givens this week about the state of immigration reform. The Senate has a piece of legislation currently being considered, and d...

by Sara Inés Calderón

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Immigration Reform Bill Still Denies Basic Rights

Is this the year Washington finally tackles immigration reform? The bipartisan “Gang of Eight” senators just released a proposal for “comprehensive immigration reform.” But the “comprehensive immig...

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