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Speaker highlights immigrant incarceration as part of Immigration Awareness Week
To support this point, Johnson pointed to legislation like SB 1070, a hotly-contested bill in Arizona that gave law enforcement officers the authority to ask about a person's immigration status during a “lawful stop, detention or arrest” if they were
Updated: 05/23/2012 01:45A
Activist lauds Board of Commissioners role in ICE program
He said that since the county began its tough immigration stance in 2006, it has experienced budget deficits, which led to property tax increases and service cuts and an inability to recruit police officers to the county. “So much for the law and order
Updated: 05/23/2012 01:05A
More reject terms like Hispanic, opt to self-identify in other ways
After a number of years of lobbying by Mexican-American and Hispanic organizations, in 1976 the US Congress passed Public Law 94-311. Called the "Joint resolution relating to the publication of economic and social statistics for Americans of Spanish
Updated: 05/23/2012 12:31A
White House showdown
It essentially gives all state law enforcement officers a blank check to demand immigration documents from anyone suspected of being undocumented. The administration has challenged it before the Supreme Court. Gov. Romney has praised it.
Updated: 05/23/2012 12:27A
Immigration program sidesteps democratic process and good sense
We elected the governor, not federal immigration authorities, to oversee local law-enforcement priorities. The heavy-handed implementation of Secure Communities is a disturbing sidestep around the democratic process.
Updated: 05/23/2012 12:17A
Immigration policy smacks of creeping fascism
Your article on resistance to the policy with the Orwellian name, Secure Communities, should remind us of the Alien and Sedition Acts, which this terrible anti-immigrant policy echoes (“Illegal-immigrant scrutiny tightens: Secure Communities to expand
Updated: 05/23/2012 12:16A
Vermont now part of US Secure Communities program
Those groups say the Secure Communities program was implemented without consulting state officials, and they fear it will destroy a trust that most of Vermont's law enforcement community has worked to build with the immigrant community.
Updated: 05/23/2012 12:13A
It is time for realistic immigration reform in the US
The legislation proved to be controversial because many were fearful of civil rights violations. Just because the majority of illegal immigrants are Hispanic doesn't mean that the majority of Hispanic-Americans are illegal immigrants.
Updated: 05/22/2012 11:56P
Editorial: The minority report
Instead of obsessing on illegal aliens as criminals who must be sent home, Republicans could promote changes to our immigration laws so these hard-working people don't need to violate the law to have their crack at the American dream — and American
Updated: 05/22/2012 11:29P
'Pick Of The Litter': Rep. Steve King Compares Immigrants to...Bird Dogs
King is an outspoken critic of illegal immigration and President Obama's border policy and has been known in the past to make controversial statements on the subject. Some have blasted him for a 2011 defense of Arizona's immigration law where he
Updated: 05/22/2012 11:25P
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