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Weekly Diaspora: What Homeland Security Looks Like After Bin Laden's Death
by The Media Consortium
Posted on 5 May 2011 at 5:38pm
by Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger
Nearly a decade ago, America's War on Terror began as a manhunt for Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, the mastermind behind the 9/11 terrorist atta...
Weekly Diaspora: One Year After SB 1070, What's Changed?
by The Media Consortium
Posted on 28 Apr 2011 at 9:54am
by Catherine A. Traywick, Medica Consortium blogger
A year ago this month, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed SB 1070 into law, effectively pushing an already vibrant anti-immigrant movement to a n...
Weekly Diaspora: Texas Excludes Low-Income Latinos from Census, Expedites Vis...
by The Media Consortium
Posted on 7 Apr 2011 at 6:11pm
By Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger
Newly released census figures show that the Latino population in the United States surged by 43 percent in the last 10 years, comprising 50 millio...
Weekly Diaspora: AZ Pushing Undocumented to Surrounding States
by The Media Consortium
Posted on 10 Mar 2011 at 11:29am
By Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger
A combination of stricter immigration enforcement and reduced economic opportunities in Arizona has pushed many undocumented immigrants out of the...
Weekly Diaspora: The 2012 Budget and Our Unsecured Border
by The Media Consortium
Posted on 3 Mar 2011 at 9:51am
By Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger
President Obama is taking heat from all sides this week for his 2012 budget proposal, which proposes increased funding for immigration enforcement...
Weekly Diaspora: Justice for Brisenia as Minutemen Leader Convicted of Murders
by The Media Consortium
Posted on 17 Feb 2011 at 9:36am
By Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger
Days after Arizona Governor Jan Brewer and Attorney General Tom Horne filed suit against the federal government for allegedly failing to protect t...
Weekly Diaspora: Why Sexual Violence Against Latina Farmworkers is a Hate Crime
by The Media Consortium
Posted on 8 Feb 2011 at 10:38am
by Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger
This week, two high-profile trials involving the racially motivated murders of Latinos in Pennsylvania and Arizona are exposing the unsettling imp...
Weekly Diaspora: Why Detention Reform is Desperately Needed
by The Media Consortium
Posted on 21 Oct 2010 at 9:29am
by Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger
Last October, the Obama administration's announced their intention to reform the detention system-to improve the management, medical care and acc...
Pressure Mounts For Moderate Republicans To Support the DREAM Act
by kyledeb
Posted on 19 Sep 2010 at 12:23am
Originally posted on Citizen Orange.
Senator George LeMieux (R-FL) is starting to feel the heat of pro-migrant voters, specifically Latino voters. Tonight, Univision will air a debate in which curre...
The Stars Have Aligned: The Time Is Now for the DREAM Act
by kyledeb
Posted on 17 Sep 2010 at 3:44am
Originally posted at Citizen Orange.
If you haven't been on facebook, twitter, or following the news, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) announced yesterday that he would be introducing the DR...
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The push for comprehensive immigration reform begins.
by justin
Posted on 11 Jan 2009 at 8:33pm
So does the push back. Religious and labor leaders called upon Congress and President-elect Obama to pass a comprehensive immigration package this year and said that the U.S. economy could not be r...
New immigration site seeks to dispel anti-immigrant
by justin
Posted on 18 Nov 2008 at 12:41pm
myths and push for comprehensive immigration reform. See Immigration Impact for more.
Summary of Border Security and Immigration Reform Act of 2007
by justin
Posted on 17 May 2007 at 4:41pm
(This information is from the internet so it may be of dubious reliability and I will correct it as needed but it’s better than nothing folks!) Border Security and Immigration Reform Act of 2007 Ti...
Senate immigration bill, including a new ?Z? visa & new ?Y? visa, passes in ...
by justin
Posted on 17 May 2007 at 4:18pm
A small group of senators, working with the White House, have come up with a 300+ page immigration “reform” bill that they say will tighten border security and will allow millions of undocumented i...
State of the Union 2007: Bush pushes immigration reform
by justin
Posted on 23 Jan 2007 at 7:49pm
In tonight’s State of the Union address President Bush again pushed for comprehensive immigration reform. With a Democratic Congress in Washington and with the spanking that the GOP received from H...
FindLaw Weekly Newsletters ? Immigration Law
by justin
Posted on 29 Dec 2006 at 5:55pm
* Ticoalu v. Gonzales * Ochoa-Amaya v. Gonzales * Gonzales-Gonzales v. Weber U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals Ticoalu v. Gonzales (12/28/06 – No. 05-1620) A deci...
If the Democrats take back the House expect immigration relief. In fact, star...
by justin
Posted on 28 Oct 2006 at 8:57pm
The midterm elections are extraordinarily important this time around. For a variety of reasons, not the least of which being immigration reform, it is very important that the Democrats win the Hous...
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