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Opinion: GOP Leaders Must Sell Immigration Reform to Base

By Juan Williams The biggest stumbling block to immigration reform is no longer politics. It is how to market the deal to conservatives. The deal is done in both the House and the Senate. All that is left is for Republicans to ...
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Federal Judge Confirms that Sheriff Joe Arpaio Racially Profiled Latinos

File this one in the “no surprise” files. On Friday, a federal judge in Phoenix ruled that Sheriff Joe Arpaio singled out Latinos in his crackdowns on undocumented immigrants. In addition to finding that Arpaio̵...
by Adriana Maestas
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Missing the Detention & Deportation Forest for the Immigration Reform Tree

Seemingly lost in much of the congratulatory messaging surrounding the “Gang of 8″ immigration reform bill passing by a bipartisan vote of 13-5 from the Senate Judiciary Committee to the Senate floor is the continue...
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Immigration Bill Passes Senate Judiciary Committee; Gay Couples Left Out

Yesterday the Senate Judiciary Committee passed the immigration bill out of its committee by a vote of 13-5 ending the markup session. The bill will now go to the Senate floor. All of the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Commi...
by Adriana Maestas
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President Obama Meets with DREAMers at the White House

As the markup session of the immigration reform bill continues in the Senate Judiciary Committee, President Obama took the opportunity today to meet with DREAMers and their family members in the Oval Office. This meeting gave P...
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TRUST Act Advances in California Legislature Again

Back in the fall, the California legislature sent a bill, the TRUST Act, to Governor Jerry Brown that would have put some limits on the extent that local law enforcement in the Golden State cooperates with federal immigration ...
by Adriana Maestas
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As Senate Passes Immigration Amendments, House Reaches Deal

On Thursday, a bipartisan group in the House of Representatives came to an “agreement in principle” on proceeding forward with immigration reform. The House is expected to work on drafting a bill that will be introd...
by Adriana Maestas
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Immigration Debate Snubs Blacks, Caribbean Natives

 By Julianne Malveaux for the Philadelphia Tribune The Senate’s Gang of Eight has put together an 844-page monstrosity known as the Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act, legislation that P...
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