Archive for the ‘Immigration’ Category
Thursday, May 28th, 2009
The nomination of federal appeals court Judge Sonia Sotomayor by the President Obama is being seen as a move to delay a thornier challenge of deciding the fate of millions of illegal immigrants living in the United States. The White House is yet to commit taking up broad immigration policy ...
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Friday, May 22nd, 2009
Dispelling the long-standing perception of linking mounting unemployment with immigrants, the Immigration Policy Center (IPC) has released two reports concluding that recent immigration is not leading to a rise in unemployment of natives in the United States. Denying any nexus between unemployment and immigrants, IPC demographer Rob Paral, demographer and ...
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Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
Continuing the work of examining issues of U.S. Immigration Law, the Congressional Research Service (CRS) has released a report on the role of state and local law enforcement agencies in the enforcement of immigration law. The CRS report mainly dealt with role of state and local law enforcement in the ...
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
If you care about immigrants in this country, buy yourself a shirt from American Apparel, a company that is doing all it can to support immigrants in California (and elsewhere) with their LEGALIZE LA campaign.
American Apparel is continuing the fight to make sure that THE AMERICAN DREAM stays alive, while ...
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
Please do not be alarmed -- just having some theme issues. Luckily I can revert back to old theme so the site can continue to function during these technical difficulties. :)
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
Ran accross this brief documentary called Alex and the Beast. It discusses the difficult journey many people take to make their to the US from Central America. Thousands of young people each year climb onto the tops of cargo trains and hang on for their dear lives in search of ...
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
Daniel Kowalski of bibdaily.com -- the most useful immigration blog around posted a wonderful discussion on the Magical ICE goggles, or the ability of ICE agents to magically spot and arrest on the spot illegal immigrants.
I imagine those mysterious abilities make the federal government's job a lot easier. I wonder ...
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Friday, October 10th, 2008
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="196" caption="Maria Andreu -- once an "illegal" American."][/caption]
A wonderful story by Maria Andreu, describes her path to becoming a “real” American. The underlying question for me while reading her story is what does it really mean to be an American? Is someone’s birth in this country the ...
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
Some profound words, from a very intelligent and learned cat. Sadly many people in our society seem unable to grasp the issue as well as this feline. Please watch this, as it is a great primer and outlines the issues extremely well. Plus hey -- it's two cats. :)
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
This is an overview of the process by which immigrants entered the U.S. via Ellis Island. Just like today, the process was arduous and a difficult experience (in a different way), however one thing that made it easier was that most of the restrictions on entry were based on the ...
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