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"Gang of Eight" Immigration Deal Outline Released

An outline of the immigration bill formed by the so-called "Gang of Eight" -- which includes Arizona's Republican Senators, John McCain and Jeff Flake -- has been released.There's a whole lot of stuff in this outline, including some of the more specific details on immigration law, but it includes se ... More >>

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S.A.N.E. Immigration Initiative Undercut by Bill Montgomery's Nativist Panderings

Jon Kyl's Not-the-DREAM-Act: Good Idea, Bad Idea, or Just a Waste of Time?

Republican Senators Jon Kyl and Kay Bailey Hutchison have offered a plan for some people brought to the United States illegally when they were young, and it's totally not the DREAM Act.Instead, it's the ACHIEVE Act, which the senators contend creates "no special pathway to citizenship." Based on how ... More >>

Democrat Rich Carmona Races Toward the U.S. Senate

Election 2012: Catholic and Mormon Voters Face a Difficult Choice Between Obama and Romney

Religion has played an increasingly dominant -- and sometimes volatile -- role in politics in recent years. But what happens when religious beliefs conflict with a political party's platform? Or when voters have to square conflicting beliefs within their own church? In this week's feature story, M ... More >>

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DREAM Act Lite: DHS Releases Deferred Action Forms for Undocumented Immigrants

See also President Obama Approves Version of the DREAM Act, Grants Immunity from Deportation for Certain Young Undocumented Immigrants See also DREAM Act Has Support From 73 Percent of Arizonans, According to Poll The Department of Homeland Security has released the forms undocumented immigrants br ... More >>

SB 1070 Fuels a Movement of New Voters

DREAMers Score a Win with Obama's Immigration Initiative, But the War Is Far from Over

Obama Blocks DREAMers' Deportations, Outflanks GOP

Republicans are stumbling all over themselves to denounce President Barack Obama's executive action today to block the deportation of students who would benefit from the proposed DREAM Act. And in doing so, they're bumbling right into the trap the White House has laid for them. Obama's move, initial ... More >>

Lemons: SB 1070 Civil Disobedience Must Escalate

Barack Obama's Shame: DREAM Activists Rally Outside Phoenix ICE Office as Part of National Day of Action

It can only be described as a massive violation of human rights, what this country has done to deny a future to an entire generation of individuals, who for all intents and purposes are Americans.I'm talking about the hundreds of thousands of bright, undocumented youth who would qualify for a pathwa ... More >>

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DREAM Act Has Support From 73 Percent of Arizonans, According to Poll

If you trust public-opinion polling, then Arizonans aren't the hard-asses about illegal immigration that they're portrayed to be.According to a new poll from the Merrill/Morrison Institute -- which found earlier in the week that the race between President Obama and eventual GOP nominee Mitt Romney i ... More >>

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Russell Pearce Shares "Some Tears" with DREAM Act Students

Pearce confronts DREAM Act students in 2010I'll have more to say soon about recalled former state Senate President Russell Pearce's Tuesday appearance at a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Senate Bill 1070. There was some good stuff in the nearly two hour donnybrook, especially from U.S. S ... More >>

Jan Brewer Not on TIME List of Influential People, but DREAM Act Proponent in Past New Times Cover Story Makes the Cut

Despite ranking among the top 20 in TIME magazine's reader poll of the most influential people in the world, Governor Jan Brewer didn't make the cut for the magazine's final list -- even after soliciting votes a little late.On the other hand, a DREAM Act proponent and undocumented woman living in Ar ... More >>

Bad Mormon: Mitt Romney's Anti-Immigrant Stance Doesn't Jibe with LDS Teachings

How Undocumented Immigrants Helped Change Phoenix's City Council Race

"Dream Act" Signed by California Governor Jerry Brown. KPHO Suggests the "Dream" Could Be Coming to Arizona. Ha!

​The "Dream" came true for illegal immigrants in California over the weekend -- Governor Jerry Brown signed a version of the controversial Dream Act into California law Saturday. Now, local TV news station KPHO is suggesting the "Dream" may be coming to Arizona (insert Wayne Campbell's "Shyeah...a ... More >>

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DREAM Act-Lite Becomes California Law

California passes its state's "DREAM Act"​"California Governor Jerry Brown did as promised during his 2010 gubernatorial campaign and signed his state's version of the DREAM Act on Monday.Assemblyman Gil Cedillo, a Democrat from Los Angeles and author of the bill, has championed the pro-immigrant ... More >>

Phoenix DREAM Activist Recognized on Capitol Hill

Angelica Hernandez being recognized by U.S. Senator from Illinois Dick DurbinOn Tuesday, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee held its first DREAM Act hearing since the legislation was first proposed a decade ago. Illinois Senator Dick Durbin, a Democrat, announced the hearing last week. Durbin ... More >>

Undocumented Youth Blocked from Entering the U.S. Workforce Are Starting Their Own Businesses to Survive

Connecticut Legislature Approves Bill to Charge Undocumented Students In-State Tuition

Color Lines America is a country divided on education for children of illegal immigrants.​Connecticut will become the 13th state to charge undocumented students in-state tuition at public colleges and universities.   Their senate passed a bill yesterday to that effect, which the gover ... More >>

Barack Obama Using DREAM Act to Raise Campaign Dollars; Activists Upset By Exploitation of Issue

United We DreamObama's solicitation​A national coalition of DREAM Act student activists is furious over Barack Obama's latest fundraising letter soliciting re-election funds based on his "support" of the DREAM Act. United We Dream is circulating a petition calling on Obama to stop using the D ... More >>

DREAM Act Reintroduced as Democrats Continue Kabuki Courtship of Latinos

Cleveland.comDREAM On.​Illinois Senator Richard Durbin will re-introduce the DREAM Act later this morning. Durbin's move is the second step in the Democratic Party's kabuki courtship of Latino voters ahead of the 2012 elections, which began with Barack Obama's bogus immigration speech yesterday. ... More >>

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Twenty-Two Sniveling Senators Ask Double-Talking Barack Obama To Stop Deporting Undocumented Youth. Change Unlikely.

Prerna Lal received deportation notice as Obama insists his administration isn't deporting talented young folk.​Twenty-two United States Senators sent a letter to President Barack Obama late last week asking him to stop deporting undocumented youth who might be eligible for the federal DREAM Act, ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, January 6, 2010

DREAM Act Demise: Republicans, the Enemies of Christmas

Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski: Living proof that not all GOPer hate LatinosI've always wondered who the Republicans hate more: Latinos or gays?Now that the DREAM Act has failed a cloture vote in the U.S. Senate, while the effort to end Don't Ask Don't Tell succeeded, I guess we know.Naturally, I'm m ... More >>

Dec. 20 In Blogs: DREAM Act, Alice Cooper, Pitchfork, Tamales, and a Missing Woman Now Found

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Dec. 9 In Blogs: McCain, Winter Fashion, 2 Tone Lizard Kings, St. Francis, and the Hells Angels

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John McCain vs. DREAM Act, Pt.2: Passes House, Senate Vote Today

Dream a little DREAM with me...The haters were defeated in the U.S. House yesterday, and the DREAM Act passed 216-198.Today, the fight goes to the U.S. Senate, where the Republicans threaten a filibuster, and the Dems lack the 60 votes to invoke cloture.I say, let them filibuster. Call their bluff. ... More >>

John McCain vs. DREAM Act: Vote Expected Today

Tim'es a waistin', people. Hit those phones. Hit 'em hard.The DREAM Act, proposed legislation that would legalize the status of undocumented students brought here when they were young, is being discussed on the floor of the U.S. House even as I type this. A vote in both houses of Congress is expecte ... More >>

Dec 8 In Blogs: John McCain, Devyn Repka, Top 10 Lists, Pho, and Kyleigh Sousa

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John McCain's Cowardice, the DREAM Act, and the Fasters

Hunger-striker Dulce Juarez (left) and supporter Debbie Robles dare to DREAMThree days into her pro-DREAM Act fast outside the Phoenix office of Republican U.S. Senator John McCain, 23-year-old Dulce Juarez has a message for the ex-maverick."You supported the DREAM Act once," said Juarez when asked ... More >>

Dec. 3 In Blogs: The DREAM Act, Tovrea Castle, Britney Spears, and Tammy Banovac

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ICE Punks Out To DREAM Act Students

In the light of day, while they're being watched, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents ain't so tough.The above video with footage by Bill Pierce and editing by Dennis Gilman documents a November 19 demonstration outside the Phoenix offices of ICE by undocumented Arizona DREAM Act student ... More >>

Russell Pearce Freaks Out When Confronted by DREAM Activists

Pearce goes ballistic when he's confronted by some of those he's victimizedCheck out this priceless video, a link to which was sent to me by Carmen Cornejo, executive director of CADENA, an Arizona group of professors and professionals who lobby for the DREAM Act. That's the proposed legislation tha ... More >>

John McCain's Shame: Blocking the Dream Act

Michael Nazario, who wants McCain to vote for the DREAM Act so he can be a MarineI stopped by DREAM Army headquarters last night to watch Michael Nazario put his wannabe-U.S. troops through the paces.See, Nazario and other members of the Arizona DREAM Act Coalition have been camped out since last we ... More >>

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Joe Arpaio Subject of Hearing by Congressman Raul Grijalva, Reports KGUN9

Tucson ABC TV news station KGUN 9 is reporting that Arizona Congressman Raul Grijalva will be holding hearings on Sheriff Joe Arpaio's anti-immigration sweeps this Thursday, and, um, no, it doesn't sound like Sheriff Joe was invited. Apparently, one reason for the hearing is to show what S ... More >>

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Joe Arpaio To Be Confronted by Undocumented Dream Walkers: Will He Take the Bait?

Dream Walker Carlos Roa, ready to confront Sheriff JoeHow will "America's Toughest Sheriff" respond to four undocumented students who will attempt to confront the geezer gendarme this coming Tuesday morning, by essentially daring the sheriff to arrest them?So far Arpaio's playing possum with the Dre ... More >>

Radical Resistance: The Bird Lauds One of the Bolder Acts of Civil Disobedience Arizona's Seen Recently

Three Undocumented DREAM Activists Released from ICE Custody in Tucson

David Abie MoralesDREAM activists, being arrested at John McCain's office MondayThree undocumented DREAM activists who had been arrested Monday on second degree trespassing charges after staging a sit-in at U.S. Senator John McCain's Tucson office were released last night from ICE custody, according ... More >>

Return to Sender: The Feds, Fueled by Local Anti-Immigration Hostility, Are Draining Talented Undocumented Youth into Mexico