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Bipartisan Senate Gang Begins To Sell Immigration Plan

Liz Halloran — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 18:52:00 +0000

Bipartisan bonhomie broke out Thursday afternoon when four Democratic and four Republican senators made a case for their comprehensive immigration overhaul proposal.

The scene at the Dirksen Senate Office Building stood in marked contrast to the ugly end Wednesday of a smaller cross-party effort to fashion gun legislation that would have expanded background checks and banned assault-style weapons.

"I think 2013 is the year of immigration reform," said GOP Sen.

Colorado Lawmakers Pass Tuition Bill For Undocumented Students

Bente Birkeland — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 18:05:55 +0000

A measure to give in-state college tuition to undocumented Colorado high school students cleared the state legislature today and is on its way to the Governor for his signature.

Latino Voters Urge Obama To Keep Immigration Promise

Don Gonyea — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 08:32:00 +0000

Latino voters were a key to President Obama's victory in November, turning out in big numbers and supporting Obama by more than 2 to 1 over Republican Mitt Romney.

Now, many of those voters say it's time for Obama to do something he did not do in his first term: push hard for and sign a comprehensive immigration overhaul.

Let's start with a group of Latinos — young and old, some U.S. citizens, some not — heading from Florida to Washington, D.C., for Obama's inauguration and for meetings with members of Congress.

A Look Foward: Immigration Reform In 2013

Sun, 30 Dec 2012 22:05:00 +0000

This year we saw a great divide in the nation on the issue of immigration reform.

Much of the concern surrounds the 11 million undocumented immigrants in this country — the majority of whom are from Mexico and Latin American countries, and about 10 percent from Asia.

President Obama won office again with 71 percent of the Latino vote. He has called pledge to reform current immigration law.

Hiroshi Motomura is a professor of law at the University of California Los Angeles.

In Pursuit of Recognition: An Undocumented Immigrant's Resilient Fight

Mandalit del Barco — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 09:04:00 +0000

Unlike many undocumented immigrants, Sofia Campos is not afraid to give her real name.

"It's deliberate, and it's liberating," she says. "It's kind of a shock to hear somebody say, 'I am undocumented' or wear the 'I am undocumented' T-shirt, just in your face."

The 22-year-old is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles, and heads United We Dream — a national network of youth-led immigrant organizations.