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Sen. Durbin: ‘Gang of Eight’ found balance on immigration
After months of negotiations, a bipartisan group of senators formally rolled out a sweeping immigration overhaul today. The gang of eight’s bill would establish a pathway to citizenship… …
Facebook’s Zuckerberg launches lobbying group to push immigration and education reforms
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a new political action group he is spearheading Thursday to press for reforms in areas including immigration and education. “To lead the world in this new economy, we need the most talented and hardest-working people. We need to train and attract the best. We need…
Tech industry hindered by lack of highly skilled immigrants
As the US government opened up visa applications Monday for highly skilled immigrants, debate flared anew on the tech sector’s demands to be able to hire more foreign workers. The US tech sector has long complained of a shortage of workers with specialized skills, but the debate is further complicated…
Activists say immigration releases highlight ‘aggressive, reckless enforcement system’
The budget-related release of undocumented immigrants from federal detention centers in at least three states has underscored the problem with the government’s enforcement of immigration policy, an activist group told The Raw Story. “Every day I get calls from families being torn apart with a loved one about to be…
Arpaio: ‘Illegal aliens’ escaping so all deputies will get ‘automatic weapons’
Newly re-elected Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Thursday pledged to put an automatic weapon in the hands of every Maricopa Country deputy because “[m]ore and more illegal aliens are attempting to escape.” An official press release distributed by the Maricopa Country Sheriff’s Office on Thursday told the story of several groups…
Judge OKs immigration check, blocks other parts of S.C. law
A federal judge has blocked most of a South Carolina immigration law that, similar to the infamous Arizona law, created strict laws surrounding undocumented immigrants. The U.S. Supreme Court threw out parts of the similar Arizona law this past summer but let stand the ability of police officers to check…
Bryan Fischer: ‘Clamp down’ on ‘socialist’ Hispanics who voted for Obama
While many Republicans are calling on their party to be more inclusive after stinging losses in the 2012 election, the director of issues analysis of a conservative fundamentalist Christian organization says that it’s time to “clamp down” on immigrants because Hispanics voted for President Barack Obama. “Hispanics are not Democrats,…
Undocumented immigrants fear for their children as AZ ‘papers’ law takes effect
Latinos living without immigration papers in Arizona have begun bombarbing helplines and lawyers’ offices with anxious requests about how to provide for their children should they be arrested under a controversial new police power that came into effect this week. A phone line hosted by the Arizona branch of the American Civil Liberties Union has…
Filmmaker highlights tourist attraction meant to simulate ‘illegal immigration’ experience
A film out this week puts a spotlight on a surprising business that’s starting to attract a lot of attention in Mexico: an illegal immigration “theme park” of sorts, where people can pay a small fee to get a taste of what it’s really like crossing into the U.S. without…
Moyers guest: U.S. is looking at immigration from the wrong direction
Author Luis Alberto Urrea was Bill Moyers’s guest on this week’s edition of “Moyers and Company.” Urrea has dedicated his life to telling the stories of the people who live along the 1,969 miles of border between the U.S. and Mexico. Born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and “Anglo”…
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