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By Linda Killian, the Thomas Jefferson Street blog When the Democrats announced campaign finance reform 3.0 Thursday on the steps of the Supreme Court, their answer to the courts Citizens United decision allowing corporate funding of political activity, ...

EVERETT, Mass. --A coalition of immigrant advocates are planning to use scheduled Saturday rallies around Boston to denounce Arizona's controversial immigration law and push for federal immigration reform. Protests are planned Saturday afternoon for ...

A flight from Taiwan to China is diverted after passenger tells cabin crew his luggage contains explosives ...

Once again we see that anything that Obama says has an expiration date. In 2006, then Senator Obama was a tough guy on illegal aliens. Flash forward to 2010 when he wants desperately to find an issue with which he can beat up on Republicans, suddenly ...

Tom K. isn't your typical American living in Turkey -- while the trend has not caught fire in Turkey yet, he is one of a growing number of US-born individuals deciding to forego the nationality of their birth for that of their chosen homeland. ...

(CNN) -- Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed a bill Friday that makes changes to a controversial new state immigration law, saying the changes should ease concerns about racial profiling. 'These changes specifically answer legal questions raised by some who ...

For the American soldiers manning Joint Security Station Wahab, Iraq, near the border with Iran, life has been a mix of espionage and being forgotten. The soldiers guarding the remote outpost, all from the 4th Brigade of the Armys 1st Armored ...

deadline, the U.S. Department of the Interior submitted to Congress yesterday a report recommending that thousands of alien workers who have lawfully resided in the CNMI for a minimum of five years be allowed to apply for long-term status under the ...

Calls for an economic boycott of Arizona are dividing Democrats, who disagree on the best strategy to fight Arizonas restrictive immigration law. Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) began pushing for a limited boycott of his home state even before Arizona ...

Texas, May 1(ANI): A Baylor University School of Law professor, who has studied immigration reform and has reviewed the Arizona Immigration Law, has said that the law is "an open invitation for racial profiling by state police". After evaluating the ...

We are waiting to hear from California Governor Schwarzenegger whether he will be calling for a special pot smoking summit of state officials to see what other actions should be taken against Arizona. While Californians prepare to legalize pot smoking ...

Secretary-General of the Ibero-American Cooperation Secretariat (SEGIB) Enrique Iglesias said Monday that Latin American countries were concerned about the human rights situation of immigrants in the United States and some other countries. 'The ...

HARRISONBURG, Va. For 10 years, Ezequiel Gonzalez and his wife, Lupe, feared that their lives as illegal immigrants in America would be discovered. One spring evening two years ago, it finally happened. Immigration agents detected Ezequiel working ...

Organizers hope Arizona's controversial immigration law spurs tens of thousands to protest and adds urgency to pleas for federal immigration reform. AP April 30: Hundreds of Latino high school students walked out of Denver area high schools to protest ...

SETH MINKOFF, in his April 27 letter Illegal immigrants have moral claim on US citizenship rights, makes a number of ridiculous claims and then draws a supposedly moral conclusion from them. Immigration - Citizenship in ...

Organizers hope Arizona's controversial immigration law spurs tens of thousands to protest and adds urgency to pleas for federal immigration reform. CHICAGO -- Immigrant rights activists planning dozens of Saturday marches nationwide hope Arizona's ...

Undocumented immigrants exercise at the Maricopa County Tent City Jail in Phoenix, Arizona. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to rally across the United States Saturday in a protest at a tough new immigration law in Arizona that has triggered ...

A group organizing a May 1 May Day rally in favor of immigrant rights in Lafayette Park in front of the White House is financially supported by the Catholic Church, Big Business, the federal government, and various Maryland governmental entities. It is ...

The Mexican government will act against a new law targeting immigrants in the U.S. state of Arizona, which borders the Mexican state of Sonora, President Felipe Calderon told a broadcast public event on Monday. 'We are going to act, we have begun and we ...

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