Blogs: Posts Tagged ‘ immigration ’

  Low-risk, non-violent immigrant detainees released from ICE detention centers?! Cue the outrage from Congressman Lamar Smith in 3, 2  … “Spending cuts are no excuse for releasing thousands of criminal and illegal immigrants into our streets,” the local GOP rep told the daily. “The (Obama) administration is either incompetent and unable to prioritize...
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There’s big news this week that a bipartisan group in the U.S. Senate have drafted a framework plan on how to overhaul the nation’s broken immigration system. There are many questions not answered by the five-page blueprint drafted by the senators that went public Monday. But the proposal would do two major things: further...
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In a letter he sent to Mexican President Felipe Calderón last month, Larson asks the Mexican government to reimburse Texas for the cost of all services provided to undocumented Mexicans living in the state.
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We'd love to tell you what Mitt Romney had to say to San Antonio on his Thursday swing through town before scoring his George H. W. Bush endorsement in Houston. With the press kept way, way at bay, we can only tell you what was on the minds of the 100 or so protesters...
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When Texas Democrats head to the polls for the primaries, whenever the hell that may be, they'll get a chance to throw their support behind the DREAM Act, an immigration reform measure that's sat dead in the water since outgoing U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison famously helped knock it down in late 2010.
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Despite claims from White House and Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials that the priority is now to deport undocumented immigrants with a criminal record, newly released data shows the vast majority of deportations launched in 2011 focus solely on immigration violations.
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When I think of Alabama, images of the KKK, overt racism, and segregation flood my mind. I wish it wasn’t the case, but it has been for as long as my memory serves. Still, I never thought I’d see the day when the state would reinvent itself as an epicenter of a new civil...
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  The ACLU of Texas Wednesday filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking damages for three women claiming they were sexually assaulted by guards at a Texas immigration detention center with a long history of abuse. Named in the lawsuit is Donald Dunn, a former guard at Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s T. Don Hutto...
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This Wednesday, October 5 at 12:30pm, Gemini Ink will be presenting “Community Talk” with Renata Serafin and Natalia Treviño. Along with other women from around the globe, they will share their stories about becoming naturalized United States citizens. Treviño’s story, and many others, are featured in Shifting Balance Sheets: Women’s Stories of Naturalized Citizenship and...
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"Telling someone to "Shut the Fuck Up" is a very effective way of propelling an argument without all that clutter of facts and opinions."
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Though the longtime congressman claims he has yet to start campaigning, you can expect to see a lot more of Lloyd Doggett around town. Doggett, who’s now running in the newly formed congressional district that stretches from Austin to San Antonio, joined a local march on Monday with a host of neighborhood and immigrant...
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Data released by the advocacy group Detention Watch Network shows just how deeply private prison companies have delved into the booming immigration detention business.
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