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Comprehensive Immigration Reform Unlikely to Pass GOP

Apr 20th 2011 – 5:04AM

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama revisited a key campaign promise when he hosted a White House meeting of elected officials and experts on immigration. But if a major overhaul of the nation's immigration policy is his goal, Republicans in Congress say he shouldn't hold his breath. They say any bill that even hints at...

4-Year-Old Girl Sent to Guatemala in Immigration Dispute Returns to NY

By Lisa FlamMar 30th 2011 – 12:03PM
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A 4-year-old girl sent back to her family's native Guatemala in an immigration dispute earlier this month has returned home to New York, where she was reunited with her family early today. Emily Ruiz, who hadn't seen her family in five months, was greeted with hugs from her mother at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport,...

Protests Spike in Greece as Government Weighs Support of Attack on Libya

By Anthee CarassavaMar 21st 2011 – 12:44PM
Petros Giannakouris, AP

Petros Giannakouris, AP

ATHENS, Greece -- Demonstrators took to the streets of the capital today to protest international air strikes against military assets of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi as Greece weighed its support of the allied offensive. Toting anti-war banners and shouting slogans against the bombing raids, hundreds of leftist...

Immigration News From AOL

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Supreme Court Likely to Decide Arizona Immigration Law Case by Late June

May 27th 2012 - 06:01PM

The Supreme Court will likely hand down a decision regarding Arizona's controversial immigration law, SB 1070, in late June, according to the Associated Press.

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Cesar Vargas: A Romney Administration Perilous For Latinos

May 25th 2012 - 08:07AM

SB 1070, the promised DREAM Act veto, and "Self-Deportation".

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U.S. Border Patrol Agents Arrest Undocumented Immigrants In Phony UPS Van Near Mexican Border

May 24th 2012 - 08:17AM

It was a special delivery indeed – 13 suspected undocumented immigrants from Mexico stuffed in a phony UPS van.

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Colorado May Vote on Driver's Licenses for Undocumented Migrants

May 23rd 2012 - 11:11AM

A coalition of immigrants' defense organizations has launched a campaign in favor of Initiative 52, which - if approved in November - would give driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants in Colorado.

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Wall of Fear

By Gabriel Frankel May 23rd 2012 - 08:35AM

U.S. Representative Gabby Giffords from Arizona addressed a local audience in Tucson in January 2011 and took a bullet in the brain from a deranged gunman.

Immigration News From the Web

  • 05/28/12 A night that put Israel to shame Source: CNN International Frida Ghitis is a world affairs columnist for The Miami Herald and World Politics Review.
  • 05/28/12 Illegal Immigrant Crackdown Source: NBC - KMIR TV 6 - Palm Springs CA The United States is reportedly stepping up on illegal immigration enforcement.
  • 05/28/12 Protest turns violent in Tel Aviv Source: CNN International A racially charged demonstration against the Israeli government's handling of immigration from Africa turned violent Wednesday night as protesters attacked foreign workers, shattered car windows and vandalized a shop owned by a Sudanese migrant.
  • 05/28/12 Heller reaches out to Hispanics; foes say real message... Source: Las Vegas Sun - Las Vegas NV The blue-and-green signs first appeared early in the year in store windows.
  • 05/27/12 We won't shut the door on migrants fleeing eurozone,... Source: Daily Mail - London - UK Nick Clegg yesterday denied that Britain is planning to 'pull up the drawbridge' to prevent an influx of foreign workers from crisis-hit eurozone nations.

Background on Immigration

Immigration (derived from Latin: migratio) is the act of foreigners passing or coming into a country for the purpose of permanent residence.

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