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Adoptions Of Foreign Children Plunge

Adoptions of foreign children plunge By Erin Spiegel The Washington Times, March 8, 2009 http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/08/us-adoptions-from-abroad-plunge/ Adoptions of children abroad by Americans are plummeting, and the trend is likely to continue owing to new restrictions by foreign governments and diminishing financial … Continue reading

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The Rich Flee Mexico Drug Violence

The rich flee Mexico drug violence Fearing for their lives, affluent seek asylum in Houston, other Texas cities By James Pinkerton The Houston Chronicle, March 8, 2009 http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/hotstories/6300615.html Mexican businessman Jorge Hernandez abruptly relocated his family to Houston last year, … Continue reading

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Pelosi : End Raids Splitting Immigrant Families

Pelosi: End raids splitting immigrant families By Kelly Zito The San Francisco Chronicle, March 8, 2009 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/07/BAHJ16BE8V.DTL House Speaker Nancy Pelosi joined hundreds of families Saturday evening at a church in San Francisco's Mission District demanding an end to the … Continue reading

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Immigrants’ Children Look Closer For Love

Immigrants' Children Look Closer for Love More Young Adults Are Seeking Partners of Same Ethnicity By Annie Gowen The Washington Post, March 8, 2009; A01 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/07/AR2009030701841.html Katie Xiao emigrated from China when she was 4 and always thought of herself … Continue reading

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Cases Flood Immigration Courts In Houston

Cases flood immigration courts in Houston Despite rise in cases, number of judges has changed little By Susan Carroll The Houston Chronicle, March 7, 2009 http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6299291.html In a cramped hallway in Houstons immigration court building, a toddler dressed in his … Continue reading

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Almost $1 Million In Taxpayer Money To La Raza

Almost $1M in taxpayer money to La Raza By Chad Groening The One News Now, March 6, 2009 http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=437504 An Iowa congressman says it's outrageous that nearly a million dollars of the proposed Omnibus spending bill would go to an … Continue reading

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New Security Secretary Called For Review To ‘Kick The Tires’

New security secretary called for review to kick the tires' Homeland security secretary says she just wants to 'kick the tires' in her new department PAUL KORING From Saturday's Globe and Mail February 27, 2009 at 10:26 PM EST WASHINGTON … Continue reading

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Stimulus Package Sets H-1B Limits, Leaves Out E-Verify Mandate

Stimulus package sets H-1B limits, leaves out E-Verify mandate Of two IT-related amendments to the economic stimulus bill, only one makes the cut. By Patrick Thibodeau and Jaikumar Vijayan Computer World, February 23, 2009 http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=334451&intsrc=news_ts_head A provision requiring banks receiving … Continue reading

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Walls Closing In On Immigrants

Walls closing in on immigrants Economy, border crackdown hits community hard By Laura Crimaldi The Boston Herald, February 22, 2009 http://news.bostonherald.com/news/hard_times/view/2009_02_22_Walls_closing_in_on_immigrants:_Economy__border_ crackdown_hits_community_hard/srvc=home&position=also A worldwide economic crisis coupled with a surge in border enforcement at the end of the Bush administration … Continue reading

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In Loneliness, Immigrants Tend The Flock

In Loneliness, Immigrants Tend the Flock By Dan Frosch The New York Times, February 22, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/22/us/22wyoming.html?em Rock Springs, WY — Somewhere in Wyomings vast, barren sagebrush country, Lorenzo Cortez Vargas pokes his head out of the rickety camper where … Continue reading

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Border Patrol Goes Double Green

Border Patrol goes double green: Building to be model for energy efficiency By Aileen B. Flores The El Paso Times (TX), February 22, 2009 http://www.elpasotimes.com/communities/ci_11762316 El Paso, TX — The first U.S. Border Patrol station to be Leadership in Energy … Continue reading

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Government Offers Look At Nation’s Immigrants

Government Offers Look at Nations Immigrants By Sam Roberts The New York Times, February 21, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/21/us/21census.html?ref=us Indians are the best educated newcomers from overseas. Somalis are the youngest and poorest. Immigrants from Jordan and Bangladesh are most likely to … Continue reading

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Illegal Immigrant Case Stemming From Van Nuys Work Site Raid Is Dismissed

Illegal immigration case stemming from Van Nuys work site raid is dismissed ICE agents violated regulations in 2008 raid, judge says in ruling that could affect dozens of other cases. By Anna Gorman The Los Angeles Times, February 21, 2009 … Continue reading

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DOD Officials See Terrorist Threat To America Brewing In Canada

DOD Officials See Terrorist Threat to America Brewing in Canada By Sebastian Sprenger InsideDefense.com, February 20, 2009 http://defensenewsstand.com/insider.asp?issue=02202009sp Military officials believe Canadian immigration policies are creating a 'favorable' environment for what the U.S. government deems to be potential terrorists seeking … Continue reading

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Feds Say In-Law Of Bin-Laden’s Bodygyard Lied About Terror Ties To Get U.S. Citizenship

Feds say in-law of bin Laden's bodyguard lied about terror ties to get US citizenship By Gillian Flaccus and Amy Taxin The Associated Press Writers, February 20, 2009 http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-afghan-arrested,1,4601791.story Santa Ana, CA (AP) — The brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden's … Continue reading

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Senate Excludes E-Verify Check On Illegal Immigrant Workers From Stimulus Package

Senate Excludes E-Verify Check on Illegal Immigrant Workers from Stimulus Package By Richard Kaplan Hispanicbusiness.com, February 11, 2009 http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/politics/2009/2/10/senate_excludes_everify_check_on_illegal.htm The Senate passed today a $838 billion stimulus plan that did not include E-Verify, a mechanism to check whether workers are … Continue reading

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40 Custodians At Mansfield Schools Out Of Jobs Over Social Secutity Irregularities

40 custodians at Mansfield schools out of jobs over Social Security irregularities By Traci Shurley The Star Telegram (Fort Worth, TX), February 11, 2009 http://www.star-telegram.com/804/story/1197198.html Forty custodians at Mansfield schools have lost their jobs or resigned since August after an … Continue reading

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Some Places Revisit Immigration Laws

Some places revisit immigration laws By Emily Bazar USA Today, February 11, 2009 http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-02-10-revisit10_N.htm Some states, cities and counties that plunged into the immigration debate are having second thoughts. In Texas, Alabama and elsewhere, lawmakers have repealed or modified measures … Continue reading

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Agriculture Groups Push For Foreign Workers Even As U.S. Workers Lose Jobs By Thousands

Agriculture groups push for foreign workers even as US workers lose jobs by thousands By Shannon Dininny The Associated Press, February 11, 2009 http://www.latimes.com/business/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-farm-scene-farm-labor,1,4846592.story Yakima, WA (AP) — John Wyss had just been hired at one of the nation's largest … Continue reading

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Mexico Protests Tent City Separation of Illegals

Mexico protests Tent City separation of illegals The Associated Press, February 11, 2009 http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/02/11/news/LT-Mexico-US-Tent-City.php Mexico City (AP) — Mexico on Tuesday criticized an Arizona sheriff's decision to keep illegal immigrants separate from other inmates at tents in Phoenix that house … Continue reading

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