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Obama Immigration Policy: Record Arrests

By Eric Lotke
September 22, 2009

During the first nine months of fiscal year 2009 the U.S. government reported 67,994 new immigration prosecutions, continuing and accelerating the surge from the Bush years. At this pace, the annual total of prosecutions will be 90,659 for this fiscal year, up 14.1 percent from last year.

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Reality Check: Immigrants and Health Care

By Immigration Policy Center
August 12, 2009

Washington D.C. - As the current debate on health care rages in town halls across the nation, immigration is being used as a way to jam a stick into the wheels of impending reform. Some are scapegoating immigrants as a way to thwart progress on the issue and are arguing that even legal immigrants be restricted from our health system. more »

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Real Immigration Reform Waits

By Armand Biroonak
August 7, 2009

Yesterday the Obama administration announced plans to change the federal government’s detention policy of undocumented immigrants. more »

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The Bloody Truth Behind Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric

By Sally Kohn
June 17, 2009

A week after a white supremacist attacked the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, and on the day that three teenagers are being sentenced in Shenandoa more »

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The Politics of Immigration

Submitted by Isaiah J. Poole
Produced by Campaign for America's Future
June 3, 2009

Gabe Gonzalez of the Center for Community Change leads a panel discussion on how progressives can forge common ground on an immigration reform strategy. The panel includes Angelica Salas of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, Ali Noorani of the National Immigration Forum, former Labor secretary Ray Marshall and Eliseo Medina of the Service Employees International Union.

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Detention Retention

By Renee Feltz and Stokely Baksh
From prospect.org
June 3rd, 2009

prospect.org — The Obama administration has responded to criticism of the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement program under the Bush administration by touting Secure Communities, a new initiative that supporters say will be more focused in its pursuit of undocumented immigrants with felony records. However, there is growing concern among immigrants' rights activists that this new program has begun to veer off course as well.

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Home Again?

By Lou Mattei
From inthesetimes.com
June 2nd, 2009

inthesetimes.com — Tolerance sounds swell so long as the Dow cries kowabunga. But when fat cats go belly up and “real Americans” fill unemployment lines, fear takes over. Vicente Serrano’s documentary, "A Forgotten Injustice," chronicles our ability to turn against our brothers and sisters during times of social panic.

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