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Aspiring immigrant students share their stories
As the Senate debates bipartisan immigration reform legislation, the President and the Vice President hosted a meeting this week in the Oval Office with young immigrants, also known as DREAMers, as well as with the siblings and spouses of undocumented immigrants. The meeting was an important oppor.... |
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A Godsend to reproductive health clinics
Two posters hang on my office wall. One says, “Jesus never shamed women.” The other says, “Pray to end sidewalk bullying.”
I got the posters from Faith Aloud, (FaithAloud.org or 1-888-717-5010) a counseling and advocacy group that connects faith with reproductive justice. It’s an important connec.... |
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The path to citizenship remains intact
Having worked through a majority of its amendments, the Senate Judiciary Committee is in the final stages of marking up the bipartisan immigration reform bill. According to Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT), who led the process thoughtfully and fairly, the markup is likely to fini.... |
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Attacking all who support immigration reform
Mark Krikorian, Executive Director of the anti-immigrant Center for Immigration Studies and the intellectual author of the GOP’s “self-deportation” policy, again made it clear last week that he’s out to kill immigration reform—and he’s attacking everyone who supports it.
Krikorian recently made h.... |
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Democracy at stake: When facts no longer matter
In what might be called something of a policy-political family squabble, the Heritage Foundation crossed signals with fellow conservatives by releasing a controversial, cost-benefit study this week related to comprehensive immigration reform. I wish this was a joking matter, but it’s a gravely ser.... |
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11 million reasons to reform our broken
During an interview with a Florida radio station about the dangerous working conditions for undocumented Latino workers, the story of one of the listeners who called in got us all on the edge of our seats.
He told us his job consisted of being lowered into a huge hospital waste collector to unclo.... |
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Immigration reform: Who's in and who's out
In December of 2001, an unknown law professor named Barack Obama lectured on the Civil War Amendments (the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments) to his law school students at the University of Chicago. As he explained how the Civil War Amendments redefined the social contract by transf.... |
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10 Ways immigration reform will fix broken system
For the past several months, four Senate Democrats—Chuck Schumer (NY), Dick Durbin (IL), Bob Menéndez (NJ), and Michael Bennet (CO)—have worked with four Senate Republicans—John McCain (AZ), Lindsay Graham (SC), Marco Rubio (FL), and Jeff Flake (AZ)—to develop a proposal to repair our nation’s fai.... |
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Economic effects of granting citizenship
The movement toward comprehensive immigration reform has accelerated significantly in recent months. A bipartisan “Gang of 8” in the Senate—a group of four Democratic senators and four Republican senators—released a framework for immigration reform on January 28, and the next day President Barack .... |
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Embracing difference: Future of DREAM movement
Editor’s Note: With the U.S. Supreme Court locked in arguments this week over the constitutionality of Proposition 8, California’s ban on gay marriage, young activists at the forefront of the DREAMer movement reflect on the historic intersection of the gay and immigrant rights movements, an allian.... |
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Jeb Bush's NO to citizenship: What happened?
In an interview on NBC’s Today Show on March 5th, former Florida governor Jeb Bush said it’s premature to declare whether he’ll aspire to the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 or not. But it seems it isn't premature for Bush to begin making mistakes in his handling of immigration -- a com.... |
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Black immigration views too often ignore fact, history
Whenever the subject of reforming the nation’s broken immigration system comes up in casual talks among my friends, all too often the conversation veers off track and heads into the trite and ugly direction of “us-versus-them.”
No doubt you, too, have been captured in a dialogue about immigration.... |
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Reflections on President Obama’s immigration plan
In a packed high school gym in Las Vegas, Nevada, President Barack Obama calmly spoke on the real possibility of comprehensive immigration reform. As I sat in my chair just 15 feet away from the president, I was trying to understand what was going on in front of me. As an individual that was undoc.... |
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Advocates condemn new attack on birthright citizenship
The National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health (NLIRH) condemns new federal legislation introduced by Representative Steve King (R-IA) that seeks to deny 14th amendment rights to citizenship and targets immigrant families. The bill (HR-140) would deny birthright citizenship to children of s.... |
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Unity: The solution we are searching for
“Our journey is not complete until we find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see America as a land of opportunity; until bright young students and engineers are enlisted in our workforce rather than expelled from our country,” said President Obama.
Standing in fro.... |
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