Category Archives: Citizenship

To stem illegal immigration, cut labor demand in U.S.

By doris | Published: May 19, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — News that Mexican authorities found 513 would-be illegal immigrants packed tightly into trucks, with the United States as their destination, should shock Americans into action. They were from Mexico, Japan, China, India and Nepal, and authorities said each had paid $7,000 to gangsters to be smuggled in. Coming only [...]

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Obama pledges help for illegal immigrant grads

By doris | Published: May 1, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo MIAMI – Stepping up his demand to change the nation’s immigration laws, President Barack Obama on Friday promised graduates at a vast, multicultural community college that he’ll keep working to help students not legally in the U.S. to become American citizens. The president’s renewed endorsement of the DREAM Act, which has [...]

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Political battle on illegal immigration shifts to states

By doris | Published: January 2, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com Legislative leaders in at least half a dozen states say they will propose bills similar to a controversial law to fight illegal immigration that was adopted by Arizona last spring, even though a federal court has suspended central provisions of that statute. The efforts, led by Republicans, are part of a [...]

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In Congress, a harder line on illegal immigrants

By doris | Published: December 27, 2010

Full Story at  msnbc.com WASHINGTON — The end of the year means a turnover of House control from Democratic to Republican and, with it, Congress’ approach to immigration. In a matter of weeks, Congress will go from trying to help young, illegal immigrants become legal to debating whether children born to parents who are in [...]

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Hawaii’s governor takes on ‘birthers’

By doris | Published: December 25, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com HONOLULU — Gov. Neil Abercrombie of Hawaii, who befriended President Obama’s parents when they were university students here, has been in office for less than three weeks. But he is so incensed over “birthers” — the conspiracy theorists who assert that Mr. Obama was born in Kenya and was thus not [...]

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DREAM Act in danger after Senate Dems pull it from consideration

By doris | Published: December 11, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — Senate Democrats conceded Thursday they don’t have the votes to pass the DREAM Act, a bill that would have offered a path to citizenship for some illegal immigrants who entered the United States as children. Democrats voted to pull the measure from consideration, a move that jeopardizes the [...]

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House approves DREAM Act, but Senate approval uncertain

By doris | Published: December 9, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — A hotly debated measure that offers a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children won approval Wednesday from the U.S. House. The 216-198 vote, mostly on partisan lines, sends the so-called DREAM Act to the Senate, where it was uncertain if [...]

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Recall election scheduled for city of Bell

By doris | Published: November 6, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com BELL, Calif. — The crowd outside Bell City Hall erupted in cheers when the City Council for the scandal-plagued Los Angeles suburb voted to hold a recall election, although many were not happy that they couldn’t watch the historic moment in person. Minutes earlier, police had cleared the City Council chambers [...]

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Democrats see hope, Republicans temper expectations for Tuesday vote

By doris | Published: November 1, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — In what are either last-minute head games or reflections on a shifting electorate, Democrats are predicting better-than-expected results for their side while Republicans are downplaying the extent of their expected victory in Tuesday’s congressional elections. With less than 48 hours before polling booths open, the comments on Sunday [...]

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Across America, people speak out on tea party

By doris | Published: October 18, 2010

Full Story atnews.Yahoo.com The Tea Party Express, one of the largest national organizations in the fractured political movement that aims to elect candidates who fiercely advocate for lower taxes and smaller government, is leaving for a cross-country bus tour Monday. Sarah Palin, a champion of the movement, kicks off the trip with a speech in [...]

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Tea party activists rally on Arizona-Mexico border

By doris | Published: August 16, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com HEREFORD, Ariz. — Tea party groups converged on a remote section of the U.S.-Mexico border on Sunday to show support for Arizona’s controversial immigration law and hear from more than a dozen conservative speakers, many of them candidates running for office in crowded Republican primaries. Several speaking to the crowd of [...]

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Ditch the 14th Amendment? Why stop there?

By doris | Published: August 7, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Republicans such as Sens. Lindsey Graham, John Kyl and John Cornyn are tripping over themselves to jump on the latest “Dumb Way to Solve the Illegal Immigration Problem” bus by suggesting Congress examine repealing the 14th Amendment, which deals with one way of becoming a U.S. citizen. The far [...]

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