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"The Madison Common Council sent a unanimous message Tuesday that the city will accept Syrian refugees."
"The resolution comes a couple weeks after Gov. Scott Walker said any new Syrian refugees would not be welcome in Wisconsin." “I don’t thin…
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"Senate Democrats cancel vote on DREAM Act, meaning the immigration measure is likely dead for the year."
More CNN breaking news. The imMEADEate reaction: "Oh, they're just stabbing Obama in the back."
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McCain says "F*ck you" to Cornyn over immigration.
WaPo reports: At a bipartisan gathering in an ornate meeting room just off the Senate floor, McCain complained that Cornyn was raising petty objectio…
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Was Lindsay Lohan simply mistaken in believing she needed to save these children from sex trafficking?
I'm reading "Lindsay Lohan gets punched in the face after accusing refugee parents of trafficking, trying to take the kids" (Fox News)…
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"John McCain is a liar. He's a man without honor, without integrity..."
John Hawkins — of Right Wing News — is a having a bit of a problem with the Republican Party's candidate.
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"The Senate on Thursday approved the most significant overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws in a generation with broad bipartisan support..."
"... sending the bill to the Republican-controlled House, where there is significant opposition from conservative members and where the fight co…
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"The public should be suspicious of Trump’s policies and the media should speak truth to power and demand answers from the administration."
"But the media should also be truthful with the public and instead of claiming Trump singled out seven countries, it should note that the US Con…
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If 90,000 jump the subway turnstile in NYC every year and 2,000 are arrested for it in one month — is there too much law enforcement or too little.
This article at DNAinfo (linked from a linky page in the NYT) highlights the opinion of a transit authority board member, David Jones, whose object…
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"The Obama administration is adamant that the president is acting within his powers to implement laws already passed by Congress..."
"... and to prioritize resources but officials won't reveal the legal reasoning until tonight's speech. Other Obama supporters were relu…
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immigration
If 90,000 jump the subway turnstile in NYC every year and 2,000 are arrested for it in one month — is there too much law enforcement or too little.
This article at DNAinfo (linked from a linky page in the NYT) highlights the opinion of a transit authority board member, David Jones, whose object…
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immigration
"All of us fundamentally believe that those are students. Those are also people that want to join the Armed Forces."
"They gave their name, their address, their phone number where they are. They’re trying to achieve the American dream. No fault of their own, th…
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"Thousands of requests by men to bring in child and adolescent brides to live in the United States were approved over the past decade... In one case, a 49-year-old man applied for admission for a 15-year-old girl."
"The approvals are legal: The Immigration and Nationality Act does not set minimum age requirements. And in weighing petitions for spouses or fi…
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"Despite his endorsement of the DREAM Act, President Obama has deported more illegal immigrants than any president in history."
"He's been deporting about 400,000 people a year, about double the number in the George W. Bush administration." From a list of "O…
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Obama "must repair his badly damaged relationship with the business community, which overwhelmingly supported Mitt Romney."
"It’s doable. From avoiding the so-called fiscal cliff, to an overhaul of immigration laws, to tax reform, there’s much more common ground than …
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"University of Wisconsin-Madison officials say Chancellor Rebecca Blank doesn't have the authority to declare the school a sanctuary for students who entered the country illegally as minors."
"The Associated Students of Madison passed a resolution Wednesday calling on Blank and UW System President Ray Cross to declare UW-Madison and a…
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The immigration deal.
In the Senate: The bill would provide an opportunity “right away” for millions of illegal aliens to correct their status, said Mr. Kennedy, Democrat …
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"As an Italian who was born and raised in Bari, I can assure you that the influx of economic refugees is now coming to an end in Italy. Italians have had it."
"If you look at the general welfare roles in Bari and throughout Italy; or just observe what is happening on the Streets, refugees from North Af…
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The notion that detained migrants were told to drink out of toilets.
Looks like fake news to me.
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The Supreme Court declines to resolve a difficult 1-person-1-vote question.
The Court denied cert. in Lepak v. City of Irving, which presented "the long-standing issue of which population basis should be used in decidin…
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Home health care worker "is absolutely the bottom rung on the ladder" of jobs.
Here 's a NYT about why and what might be done about it. It's easy to understand why, but the suggestions about what might be done are not en…
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