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Kids demonstrate for dad held in Pompano immigration lock-up
Holding a sign that read "Stop Breaking Families," 8-year-old Alexis Rivas marched through the noon heat in front of an immigration detention center Monday to protest the scheduled deportation of his father for the fifth time. "I want to see my dad,"...
Tags: Deportation, Aventura, Illegal Immigrants, International Law, Politics
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Business, labor spar over high-skill visas in U.S. immigration bill
ReutersBy Caren Bohan and Rachelle Younglai WASHINGTON, May 13 (Reuters) - A rift emerged between U.S. business groups and organized labor over a high-skilled worker program in the Senate immigration bill, as the tech industry and other firms on Monday pushed...Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Orrin Hatch, Justice System, Mike Lee, Crime, Law and Justice
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Las Vegas Sun Richard N. Velotta column
Las Vegas SunThe battle over immigration reform could get heated, and local tourism leaders hope the federal government's efforts to reduce visa wait times aren't lost in the shuffle. Republican Rep. Joe Heck hopes to give the system a "JOLT." He introduced the Jobs...Tags: International Travel, Joe Heck, Trips and Vacations, Interior Policy, Tourism and Leisure
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L.A. Now Live: Amnesty debate looms over immigration bill
Four times as many people are potentially eligible for legal residency under a current bill proposing mass legalization. The specifics of the current proposal are different from President Ronald Reagan’s in 1986. Join us at 9 a.m. as we discuss...
Tags: Ronald Reagan, Politics, Immigration
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Cannes Films On the Critical List
VarietySCOTT FOUNDAS "All Is Lost" (J.C. Chandor) Chandor, who made an impressive debut with Margin Call in 2011, ventures far from Wall Street â and dry land â for this followup, starring Robert Redford as a man lost at sea in a movie that purports to have...Tags: The Holocaust (1934-1945), Film Festivals, France, Health Treatments, U.S. Congress
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The Miami Herald Politics column
Miami HeraldThe biggest mistakes in politics are often unforced errors that reinforce an opponent's stereotypes. By that standard, the Heritage Foundation's immigration report last week was a case study in the worst of political gaffes. The conservative think...Tags: Washington, DC, The Washington Post, Jim DeMint, Social Issues, Illegal Immigrants
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Hiring of undocumented workers at Agriprocessors was no surprise
Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, IowaSecond of two parts. POSTVILLE, Iowa -- A badly kept secret. That's how one former prosecutor describes suspicions that sparked the investigation into illegal workers that ultimately collapsed a meatpacking giant, jailed its boss and sent the town...Tags: Plant Openings, Trials, Justice System, Illegal Immigrants, Sholom Rubashkin
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Huge immigration raids a thing of the past
Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, IowaFor a short time in 2008, the Agriprocessors raid was the largest single-site immigration raid in U.S. history. It took only four months for the "largest raid" title to go to another plant when Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents hit Howard...Tags: Trials, George W. Bush, Justice System, Laws, Crime, Law and Justice
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Which party stands to benefit from going after Hispanics? Advantage: Democrats
So, which political party in Florida gets the better of the deal in going after the Hispanic vote? Conventional wisdom favors the Democrats. They’re more attuned on the issues and the demographics favor them. Still, it’s the Republicans...
Tags: Social Issues, U.S. Congress, Immigration, Elections, Parties and Movements
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On immigration, ghosts of Christmas past
WASHINGTON -- Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" is a gooey confection of seasonal sentiment. It also is an economic manifesto that Dickens hoped would hit with "twenty thousand times the force" of a political tract. It concerned a 19th-century debate...
Tags: Philosophy, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Illegal Immigrants, Ebenezer Scrooge (fictional character), Jeff Sessions
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Debate over amnesty looms over efforts to reform immigration laws
In 1986, lawmakers decided the problem of illegal immigration had to be dealt with. More than 3 million people were living in the United States after crossing the border illegally or overstaying their visas. A new law signed by President Ronald Reagan...
Tags: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Unemployment Benefits, Crime, Law and Justice, Immigration, Heritage Foundation
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Conservativism needs to purge eugenics obsession
Mary SanchezJason Richwine is a type in American politics. He holds a doctorate from Harvard. He writes studies, appears at conservative conferences in suit and tie, and expounds the same old nonsense about immigrants that we've been hearing since the Know...Tags: The Washington Post, U.S. Congress, Social Issues, Crime, Law and Justice, Think Tanks
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