Immigration

More calls to get tough on immigrants

4-20-2006 • USA Today

Recent demonstrations demanding that immigration laws be eased are fueling new interest in states far from the U.S.-Mexican border in groups that support stricter immigration enforcement.

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The Immigration Payoff

4-20-2006 • Business Week

Living south of the U.S. border can be a surreal experience. When I was in Tijuana recently trying to navigate a poorly marked main artery to return a rental car, I suddenly realized I was on the wrong side of the four-lane highway, heading toward Sa

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Minutemen to government: Build a fence, or we will!

4-20-2006 • Associated Press

Minuteman border watch leader Chris Simcox has a message for President Bush: Build new security fencing along the border with Mexico or private citizens will. Simcox said Wednesday that he's sending an ultimatum to the president, through the med

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Chertoff downplays Mexican military incursions

04-20-2006 • WorldNetDaily

The Border Patrol has tracked 216 incursions by Mexican military or police forces since 1996, the Daily Bulletin first reported Sunday.

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Employers risk to bring us products as inexpensively as possible

4-19-2006 • Christian Science Monitor

It's a topic often lost in the heated battle over whether to add more border patrol agents, build a bigger fence, or deploy the US military along the border with Mexico. But in the end the US can't stem the flow of illegal immigrants until it

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Mexican Flag burning in Tucson TV 9 Video

04-10-2006 • WTPAZ.org

Arizona Daily Star article highlighting the arrest of Roy Warden a day after burning the Mexican Flag in Amory Park and shoving members of the press

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Phoenix talk radio solution to immigration: Kill 'em

4-13-2006 • Phoenix New Times

On a March 8 installment of 550's 8 p.m. bile-fest, James, an occasional fill-in host at the station, hocked up the snot-ball that illegals trying to make it over the border should be shot on sight. This, James shared with listeners (most of whom

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After protests, Republicans mull changes in bill

4-12-2006 • Reuters

Following huge nationwide protests, House Republicans moved to possibly change 2 key provisions in a get-tough immigration bill passed. One would turn millions of illegal immigrants into felons and the people who provide them humanitarian relief woul

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More than 2 million Immigration protestors nationwide

4-11-2006 • Bloomberg

More than 2 million people wearing white T-shirts or armbands and carrying American flags may rally across the US today against an immigration reform bill that would tighten the borders and impose stiffer penalties on illegal immigrants, organizers s

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Government to keep database on who is permitted to work

4-11-2006 • Associated Press

At the heart of any immigration bill that makes it through the heated congressional debates is likely to be a computerized system that could help employers determine instantly whether someone can legally work in this country.

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Group burns Mexican flag, plans on igniting more

04-11-2006 • KVOA TV News 4 Tucson

Before igniting the flag, group members recited the Pledge of Allegiance. (How many people does this guy represent?)

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Hundreds of thousands rally for Immigration

4-10-2006 • Associated Press

Hundreds of thousands of people banged drums, waved U.S. flags and marched in a protest Sunday urging federal lawmakers to pass immigration reform that would legalize an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants.

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U.S. urged to apologize for 1930s Mexican deportations

04-05-2006 • By Wendy Koch, USA TODAY

The deportation of Piña's family tells an almost-forgotten story of a 1930s anti-immigrant campaign. Tens of thousands, and possibly more than 400,000, Mexicans and Mexican-Americans were pressured — through raids and job denials — to leave the U

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Protesters Defend Carrying Mexican Flags

4-6-2006 • Associated Press

Hundreds of protesters gripped Mexican flags as they marched for immigration reform in the past few weeks, but they say a display of cultural unity is being mistaken as a lack of loyalty to the US. [British flag license plates anyone?]

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Immigration: A tale of two cities

4-5-2006 • USA Today

As Washington grapples with rewriting immigration law, possibly settling the status of 12 million undocumented residents, the issue is playing out at the local level—with communities deciding whether to support or subvert the federal will.

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1930s deportation of Mexicans

4-5-2006 • USA Today

"They came in with guns and told us to get out," recalls Piña, 81, a retired railroad worker in Bakersfield, CA, of the 1931 raid. "They didn't let us take anything," not even a trunk that held birth certificates proving that

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Immigration: Businesses will pay more, so you will pay more

4-5-2006 • Business Week

"Unless there is reform, American competitiveness will suffer as other countries benefit from the international talent that US employers cannot hire or retain," wrote Microsoft's Bill Gates to lawmakers.

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Immigration and the GOP

04-04-2006 • WSJ Editorial

The most important political outcome may turn out to be the message that Republicans send about the kind of the party they are and hope to be.

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Poll: Americans divided on Immigration

3-31-2006 • Pew Research Center

The public remains largely divided in its views of the overall effect of immigration. Roughly as many believe that newcomers to the U.S. strengthen American society as say they threaten traditional American values, and over the longer term, positive