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Farmers hope immigration bill yields more foreign farm workers
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON Walk the aisles of any neighborhood grocery store today and you're as likely to find tomatoes picked in Sinaloa, Mexico, as Central California or oranges from Sao Paulo, Brazil, as Bradenton, Fla. Farmers across the country warn that...Tags: Jeff Sessions, Mexico, Crime, Law and Justice, Migration, Politics
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Senators press forward on immigration bill
WASHINGTON – Senators are pushing forward on changes to a sweeping immigration overhaul, preparing to vote the bill out of the Judiciary Committee before Congress adjourns for the Memorial Day recess. The bill largely has withstood the assaults of...
Tags: Jeff Sessions, Harry Reid, Migration, Politics, Personal Data Collection
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Federal immigration services union joins opposition to bill
WASHINGTON – A labor union that represents federal officers who vet immigration applications has decided to oppose the immigration overhaul winding through the Senate, saying provisions in the bill could lead to fraud. The proposed legislation...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Career and Workplace, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Justice System
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U.S. panel votes to speed up airport fingerprinting of immigrants
Reuters* Major U.S. airports would be first to install equipment * Negotiations continue over high-tech visas By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON, May 20 (Reuters) - High-tech systems for tracking the movements of immigrants and other foreigners when leaving the...Tags: Jeff Sessions, Science and Technology, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Migration
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Immigration: A wider better welcome mat
As an immigrant and an engineer, I know the magnetic pull that the United States exerts on anyone who dreams of a career in science. From the time I watched NASA technicians on television during the first lunar landing in 1969, I resolved to get the...
Tags: Science and Technology, Hybrid Vehicles, Education, Colleges and Universities, NASA
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GOP ponders how to capitalize on Obama's woes
WASHINGTON (AP) — The scandals dogging President Barack Obama are a political gift to Republicans, who could use some good luck after recent election losses. It's not clear, however, how Republicans can best capitalize on Democrats' woes,...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Benghazi, Bill Clinton, Fiscal Cliff, Nancy Pelosi
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Study confirms poverty hits the suburbs, too
The Philadelphia InquirerSay poverty in the Philadelphia area, and it conjures images of North Philadelphia or Kensington, not the suburbs. But the suburbs on both sides of the Delaware River are becoming steadily poorer, part of a national trend that confounds long-held...Tags: Brookings Institution, Cerebral Palsy, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Government, Politics
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New Pew study finds rise in Muslim and Hindu immigrants to the U.S.
A new Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life study of immigration data found a rise in the numbers of Muslims and Hindus coming to the United States legally, while undocumented immigrants are overwhelmingly Christian: The study...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Islam, Migration, Politics, Separation of Church and State
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Uncommonwealth: In his new role, Ben Chandler begins 'a labor of love'
The Lexington Herald-LeaderBen Chandler, beaming like he just won the Powerball, said he has always wanted to teach history. His pride is his library at his home in Woodford County, which has 5,000 volumes. When the former congressman travels, he takes his books with him in a...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Lotteries, University of Kentucky, Politics, Government
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Hospitals send home some ailing immigrants
The Columbus DispatchHospitals in Ohio and at least 14 other states have forced undocumented immigrant patients who were injured or sick to return to their home countries, according to a recent report. "I think most people have no idea that this is going on," said Lori...Tags: Mexico, Crime, Law and Justice, Conservation, Hospitals and Clinics, Migration
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The high personal and economic cost of our broken immigration system
While the political winds seem to be propelling the first comprehensive immigration reform in more than a quarter-century, every day our broken immigration system takes a cruel and little-noticed toll on countless hardworking, law-abiding individuals...
Tags: Lung Cancer, Laws, Crime, Law and Justice, Productivity, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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Top item on Obama's agenda: damage control
As it must come to all American presidents, it seems, Barack Obama's policy agenda is being crowded out of the headlines by the imperative of damage control against administration scandal. The allegations of incompetence or worse in the IRS' targeting...
Tags: Benghazi, Dwayne Johnson, Monica Lewinsky, Politics, Democratic Party
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