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ACLU Sues Indiana over Immigration Law
On June 1, 2011, Indiana joined a handful of other states in signing into law legislation that puts immigration enforcement into state hands. Read More »
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Alabama Passes Arizona-Style Immigration Legislation
Arizona’s SB 1070 inspired copycat bills in states across the nation. Most have failed except in Utah, Georgia, Indiana, and most recently, Alabama. Read More »
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Alabama the Latest in a Rash of Restrictive Immigration Legislation
On June 9, 2011, Alabama Governor Robert Bentley signed into law what some are saying is the toughest immigration law in the country. Read More »
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Bi-National Gay Couples Get a Reason to Hope
As a result of the Defense of Marriage Act of 1996, married gay couples where one is a U.S. citizen and the other is not have been unable to take advantage of immigration benefits. Read More »
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Bi-National Gay Couples Hopeful with the Introduction of New Immigration Bill
There has been much reason to hope for married gay couples in the U.S. First of all, New York recently joined the short list of states where gay marriage is legal and recognized. Read More »
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California Tackles Immigration Reform
In what is being hailed as the California DREAM Act, AB 130 has passed through the governor’s office and is set to be put into effect. Read More »
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CEO’s taking Heat for the Crimes of Their Companies
Don’t believe the rhetoric. The Obama administration has been aggressively cracking down on illegal immigration, much more than his Republican predecessor George Bush. Read More »
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Deportation of Gay Spouse Halted
Henry Velandia, a Venezuelan national and spouse to a gay U.S. citizen, received a reprieve from his deportation order last June. Read More »
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Detroit Area Latinos Protest Immigration Agencies
There are dozens of complaints against U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in the Detroit, Michigan area stemming from incidences where Latino-Americans have felt profiled. Read More »
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Foreigners Look to Take Advantage of Struggling U.S. Housing Market
When the U.S. housing market crashed in early-2008, sending shock waves through the global economy and marking the beginning of a recession that still persists nearly 4 years later, housing prices plummeted. Read More »
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Georgia Immigration Law Leaves Crops to Rot
The passage of a law in Georgia that drew inspiration from Arizona’s controversial SB 1070 has driven away enough farm workers to significantly affect the state’s crop output. Read More »
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Georgia Immigration Law Ruffling Feathers
Recently the state of Georgia, famous for its peaches and Vidalia onions, passed what many are calling the toughest immigration law in the nation. Read More »
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ICE Returns Ancient Artifacts to Panama
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) have returned 99 individual artifacts to Panamanian authorities that were discovered and seized during investigations in Los Angeles, CA and Portland, OR. Read More »
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Illegal Immigration in California and Projections for the Future
California is a haven for illegal immigrants. Of the approximately 12 million illegal immigrants currently residing in the United States, about 2.6 million of them live in California. Read More »
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Infosys Technologies Taking Fire for Visa Fraud
Three managers of the India-based outsourcing firm Infosys Technologies have submitted whistle-blower reports accusing the company of bringing Indian workers to the U.S. on short-term business visitor visas and using them beyond the specified capacities of those visas for low-cost labor. Read More »
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Los Angeles Celebrates 2010 Census Data
L.A. undertook quite a campaign to get as many people as possible to participate in the 2010 U.S. census. Read More »
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Pulitzer Prize Winner an Illegal Immigrant
Jose Antonio Vargas was probably best known for his coverage of the 2007 Virginia Tech shootings which earned him a Pulitzer Prize. Read More »
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Texas Pastor Sentenced in Connection with “Document Mill”
Former part-time Pastor Felipe DeJesus Coronel Pacheco, who administered to the Ministerios Epicentro Donde Nace La Bendición church in Austin, Texas before moving to El Paso in mid-2010, was recently sentenced for his part in producing and distributing fake green cards to illegal immigrants in El Paso, Texas. Pacheco, 55, and his accomplice Luis Angel Tovar Cisneros, 38, were apprehended by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after a five-month investigation that stemmed from an anonymous tip that the pair was selling fraudulent documents for around $160 each. Read More »
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Veteran Faces Deportation
Elisha Dawkins, who served on the front lines of the U.S.-Iraq war and then joined the Navy reserves, is now faced with battling possible deportation. Read More »
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