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The issue of immigration is a hotly debated issue at the federal, state and local level. Some feel immigrants from other countries take jobs and resources away from natural born citizens, while others believe our country our country was founded and populated by people seeking a better life away from persecution. At the heart of the debate is the issue of "illegal" immigrants, who enter the United States unknown to officials and remain in the country undocumented.
The issue of immigration is a hotly debated issue at the federal, state and local level. Some feel immigrants from other countries take jobs and resources away from natural born citizens, while others believe our country our country was founded and populated by people seeking a better life away from persecution. At the heart of the debate is the issue of "illegal" immigrants, who enter the United States unknown to officials and remain in the country undocumented.
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Jeb Bush: Immigration cannot be ignored
The Swampby Mark Silva Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida, son of one president and brother of another, is attempting to forge a new consensus within the Republican Party on issues which might reengage the party with a disaffected voting......Tags: Regional Authority, Jeb Bush, Texas, National Government, George H.W. Bush
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Sessions to grill Sotomayor on Puerto Rican ties
tom.brune@newsday.comAlabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions' questioning of whether Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor would be biased in favor of Latinos because of her past ties to a Puerto Rican advocacy groups is nothing new. In 2005, Sessions grilled then-attorney...Tags: Minority Groups, Local Authority, Parliament, Sonia Sotomayor, George Bush
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Senate votes to keep Bush era illegal worker rule
The Senate wants to force the Homeland Security Department to stick with a proposed Bush administration policy requiring employers to fire immigrant workers whose names don't match their Social Security numbers. By voice vote Thursday, the Senate...Tags: American Civil Liberties Union, Personal Data Collection, Parliament, Demographics, Employers
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Is it profiling? Lake County detains more than 200 suspected of being illegal immigrants
Sentinel Staff WriterDuring the past two years, the Lake County Sheriff's Office detained more than 200 people solely because they were suspected of being an illegal or undocumented immigrant. The arrest count is by far the highest of any other Central Florida county that...Tags: Police Arrests, Deportation, Trials, United States, Court Administration
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Illegal immigrants again in the budget spotlight
As California lawmakers struggle with a budget gap that has now grown to $26.3 billion, one of the hottest topics for many taxpayers is the cost to the state of illegal immigrants. The question of whether taxpayers should provide services to illegal...Tags: Regional Authority, Personal Data Collection, Health and Safety at School, United States, Government
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Senate tries to force administration to stick with Bush era immigration enforcement tactic
Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate wants to force the Homeland Security Department to stick with a proposed Bush administration policy requiring employers to fire immigrant workers whose names don't match their Social Security numbers. By voice vote...Tags: American Civil Liberties Union, Personal Data Collection, Parliament, Demographics, Employers
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Krispy Kreme Fined for Hiring Illegal Immigrants
Staff WriterKrispy Kreme Doughnuts has agreed to pay a $40,000 fine for hiring illegal immigrants at a plant in southwest Ohio. The Butler County sheriff's office says it relayed information about workers at the Monroe plant to U.S. Immigration and Customs...Tags: Ohio, Foods and Beverages, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Demographics, Illegal Immigrants
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Senate Democrat says coming immigration bill to be more generous to high skilled workers
Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON (AP) — The lead Democrat steering an immigration overhaul through the Senate said Wednesday he expects to have a bill ready by Labor Day that is more generous to highly skilled immigrant workers than those who are lower skilled and is...Tags: Janet Napolitano, American Civil Liberties Union, The Associated Press, Personal Data Collection, United States
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Death-row inmate, Louisiana settle religious access issue
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The state and the ACLU Foundation of Louisiana have filed an agreement in federal court that will allow a death-row inmate at Angola to practice his Roman Catholic faith. The ACLU, on behalf of Donald Lee Leger Jr., and...Tags: Connecticut, American Civil Liberties Union, Richard Blumenthal, Minority Groups, Kentucky
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Power of ethnic press: urging immigration reform
Ethnic media organizations are demanding urgent action on federal immigration reform _ in the languages their audiences speak. Over 275 broadcast, print and online ethnic media outlets have run or plan to run an editorial calling on the White House...Tags: California, New York, The White House, Demographics
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Feds: Brooklyn attorney defrauded East End immigrants
sumathi.reddy@newsday.comA Brooklyn man, who many Ecuadoreans in the East End reportedly believed was their connection to legal residency, has been arrested on a federal immigration fraud charge, in a case that local lawyers say could involve dozens of immigrants. The U.S....Tags: Lawyers, Fraud, Long Island, Corporate Crime, Deportation
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Trial date set in Iowa slaughterhouse case
A lawyer for a former top manager of a kosher slaughterhouse is protesting a judge's decision to hold a trial on financial charges before a trial on Immigration charges. U.S. District Court Judge Linda Reade wrote in an order Monday that a trial on...Tags: Iowa, Agriprocessors, Inc., Trials, Sholom Rubashkin, Demographics
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