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CitizenshipWorks Winner for Best Law Site in the 16th Annual Webby Awards
CitizenshipWorks (http://www.citizenshipworks.org) provides free, easy-to-use online tools in both English and Spanish to help individuals answer questions about their eligibility for naturalization, better understand the naturalization process and how
Updated: 05/22/2012 05:21A
Alabama Governor Signs Bill That Makes State's Immigration Law Even Worse
We can now also move forward on the other business of the special session. So how does HB 658 affect Alabama's already extreme immigration law? In addition to keeping the “papers please” provision of the original law intact, HB 658: Alabama Governor
Updated: 05/22/2012 04:45A
State panel on Hispanic affairs to meet in Forks; Border Patrol not invited
But the federal agencies responsible for investigating immigration violations and enforcing federal immigration law, which have increased their presence in Clallam and Jefferson counties in recent years, have not been invited because of fears of
Updated: 05/22/2012 03:36A
New America Media
As California's legislature considers far reaching policies in support of immigrants in 2012, the environment nationally is another story altogether. From Arizona's anti-immigrant law encouraging racial profiling and harassment of undocumented
Updated: 05/22/2012 03:20A
Immigration minister plans speedier and tougher asylum process
Immigration minister Gerd Leers is planning to tighten up the procedure for vetting asylum seekers and make it faster by cutting out several layers of the current process, he told the Volkskrant in an interview on Tuesday. Leers wants asylum seekers to
Updated: 05/22/2012 03:05A
Immigration minister plans speedier and tougher asylum process
Immigration minister Gerd Leers is planning to tighten up the procedure for vetting asylum seekers and make it faster by cutting out several layers of the current process, he told the Volkskrant in an interview on Tuesday. Leers wants asylum seekers to
Updated: 05/22/2012 03:05A
Report details abuse at Georgia immigrant detention centers
The state of Georgia recently enacted harsh anti-immigrant legislation empowering police to check on a suspect's immigration status as well as providing for stiff punishment for those employing or harboring undocumented workers.
Updated: 05/22/2012 01:25A
Gay Democrats, Activists Decry Senator Brown's Anti-Gay Track Record
Yet another bill, The Uniting American Families Act would enable US citizens and permanent residents to sponsor their same-sex partners, called “permanent partners,” for family-based immigration. Currently, under the US Immigration and Nationality Act,
Updated: 05/22/2012 01:25A
Gay Democrats, Activists Decry Senator Brown's Anti-Gay Track Record
Yet another bill, The Uniting American Families Act would enable US citizens and permanent residents to sponsor their same-sex partners, called “permanent partners,” for family-based immigration. Currently, under the US Immigration and Nationality Act,
Updated: 05/22/2012 01:25A
Amherst OKs historic district, immigration resolution
Emma Febo of Longmeadow Drive said immigrants, both legal and undocumented, will be more afraid of reporting domestic incidents and other crimes to police for fear of being deported. "With this law, those cases will be worse and will increase," Febo
Updated: 05/22/2012 01:24A
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