Activists Seek More Immigration Debate

When officials in this suburban Chicago community began proposing hardline anti-illegal immigration policies last year, pro-immigrant rights activists rallied.

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Silicon Valley veterans are calling for new laws to encourage more technology entrepreneurs to move to America, as the region attempts to hold on to its crown as the world's hi-tech hotspot.

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Reporting from Washington - With the healthcare battle still unfinished, the Obama administration has been laying plans to take up an issue that could prove even more divisive -- a major overhaul of the nation's immigration system.

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Reporting from Los Angeles and Chicago - Raising the curtain on a new round of debate over immigration reform, a group of Democratic congressional lawmakers introduced a comprehensive bill Tuesday that, among other provisions, would offer a path to legalization for the country's  …

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Reporting from Los Angeles and Chicago - Raising the curtain on a new round of debate over immigration reform, a group of Democratic congressional lawmakers introduced a comprehensive bill Tuesday that, among other provisions, would offer a path to legalization for the country's  …

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TUCSON, Arizona – Tired of promises and being the target of laws that seek to criminalize them, hundreds of immigrants took to the streets here and in other Arizona cities on Thursday to call for quick approval of immigration reform.

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The Obama administration will insist on measures to give legal status to an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants as it pushes early next year for legislation to overhaul the immigration system, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Friday.

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The Senate resurrected the immigration bill that could legalize millions of unlawful immigrants Tuesday, but the delicate compromise faces the same threats that derailed it earlier this month.[!]

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The chairman of a key congressional immigration task force has offered a sneak preview of the "compassionate" and "comprehensive" legislation he's crafting to legalize the nation's estimated 12 million undocumented aliens.

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A small cadre of Democrats on Tuesday continued to push Congress to take up a major immigration reform bill even though the issue has all but evaporated from the majority's agenda.

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Is there a real answer to the problem of illegal immigration?

One of the most stubborn problems that both parties and the American public have to grapple with lately is the question of how to handle illegal aliens and illegal immigration.

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Active year could lead to final H-1B showdown during 2010 immigration reform debate

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If I were a Republican maybe I would think about saying "YES" every now and then...

Everyday I turn on the idiot box (TV) and usually within a few seconds President Obama appears - like magic almost. You talk about overexposed - this guy gets more airtime than Billy Mays ever did! But seriously, I don't fault him one bit.

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Although President Obama has put off an immigration overhaul until next year, the federal agency in charge of approving visas is planning ahead for the possibility of giving legal status to millions of illegal immigrants, the agency's director said Thursday.

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An immigration crackdown by the Obama administration has led to the imminent firing of about 1,800 workers at American Apparel, the trendy clothing company whose downtown factory is one of the largest still left in Los Angeles.

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Bishops representing 200,000 Episcopalians from Maine to California made their annual trip to Washington, DC September 14-16 to lobby congress on social justice issues such as healthcare, immigration reform and stricter environmental protection.

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As Jeffrey Kuhner writes at The Washington Times, after passing health care "reform," President Obama plans to move on to his next big domestic initiative: granting citizenship to more than 12 million illegal immigrants.

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WASHINGTON, DC -- (Marketwire) -- 09/15/09 -- "As the heated debates over health care and immigration reform collide, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists calls on our nation's news media to stop using the dehumanizing term "illegals" as a noun to refer to undocumente …

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This week, Lou Dobbs is broadcasting his radio show from a national lobbying conference sponsored by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), an organization founded by a white nationalist and designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

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Today, in a meeting to convene a diverse group of labor, advocacy, faith and business leaders, SEIU Executive Vice President Eliseo Medina met with Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano to discuss immigration reform.

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excerpt: ""The clash happened during an event organized Saturday by New Haven immigrant advocacy organization Unidad Latina En Accion. More than 100 people marched through the streets of East Haven on Saturday, protesting alleged racial profiling on the part of East Haven police.

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GUADALAJARA, Mexico - Flanked by his counterparts from Mexico and Canada, President Obama yesterday reiterated his commitment to pursuing comprehensive immigration reform, despite his packed political agenda and the staunch opposition such an initiative could face.

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The Obama administration announced plans today to change how immigration violators are detained in the U.S. by shifting from a system that relies on a network of jails and private prisons to one that is designed specifically for civil detention.

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A jury ruled in favor of a hospital that deported an injured immigrant back to his native Guatemala. Sould he have been sent back? Or should US taxpayers unnecessarily shoulder the burden?

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excerpt: ""In the wake of Buchanan's latest (ahem) racially charged diatribe, in which he described America as a "country built basically by white folks," a respected immigration reform group is demanding that the network stop granting Buchanan a platform to share what mig …

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The idea of stripping Latino children of their rights as Americans is the first of probably many reprehensible measures to crawl out of the vacuum of Sacramento politics.

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