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Tuesday, July 03, 2007 Sen. Barack Obama on the campaign trail in Laconia, N.H. yesterday. Posted ByDaniela at 08:00 AM| Leave a Comment
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
The Los Angeles Times reports that three dozen young people in Southern California are going on a hunger strike until Monday in order to call attention to the need for a legal path to citizenship for illegal immigrant students.
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Tuesday, July 03, 2007
The Salt Lake Tribune compiled varying editorials from several different newspapers published on the failed comprehensive imigration bill, S.1639.
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Tuesday, July 03, 2007  Media across the board have been reporting that Sen. John McCain's Republican presidential nomination campaign has suffered tremendously in this past quarter. His campaign announced it had raised only $2 million, compared to the $11 million it raised in the previous three months."McCain for President" has fired dozens of employees and stopped paying others, including the campaign manager, who will now work for free. That campaign manager, Terry Nelson, said the lack of support is probably due in part to Mcain's support of the Iraq war and S.1639, the comprehensive immigration reform bill that failed last week. Posted ByDaniela at 08:37 AM| Leave a Comment
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
NPR did an interesting news-feature on how Beardstown, IL, a very small town based around a pork processing plant, has been affected by a recent influx of both legal and illegal immigrants who now number at around 6,000.
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Monday, July 09, 2007  On a holiday-like note, we wanted to point you in the direction of a New York Times article that looks at how Mexican "corrido" music has been translated into Chicano culture here in the United States. We're sure that the lyrics and story will be of interest to readers of our blog.
Now they are putting up barriers in front of us so we don't return / but that is not going to block us from crossing into the United States / We leap them like deer, we go under them like moles Posted ByDaniela at 08:32 AM| Leave a Comment
Monday, July 09, 2007
The AP reports on an interesting aspect of becoming a citizen in the United States. Apparently, a "name check"—a requirement to moving along the naturalization application—takes over six months for around 150,000 people:
The FBI completes about 62,000 name checks every week, with close to 27,000 new requests coming from USCIS alone on a weekly basis, said Trent Pedersen, a spokesman with the bureau's Salt Lake City office. (...) Posted ByDaniela at 08:36 AM| Leave a Comment
Monday, July 09, 2007  Qualtrics, an Internet-based survey group, found that 68 percent of respondents favor deportation as the answer to illegal immigration; another 20 percent feel that illegal immigrants should be given legal status and a chance at citizenship.Posted ByDaniela at 08:38 AM| Leave a Comment
Monday, July 09, 2007
Washington Business Journal reports that at the state levels, more employers will be required to verify that all their employees are legally allowed to work in the United States. The verification process called "Basic Pilot" is voluntary now and only 18,000 companies are signed up and using it. That may chance with state-based legislation:
Though Congress' attempts to make the program mandatory have failed for now, state and local governments are rapidly making Basic Pilot a reality for companies. Companies that do business with Colorado, Georgia, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Arizona and Mission Viejo, Calif., are required to enroll in the program. Comprehensive legislation is pending in Missouri and South Carolina to require all employers to participate in the program. More than 30 other states considered similar legislation in the past year. Posted ByDaniela at 08:42 AM| Leave a Comment
Monday, July 09, 2007  By Nick Anderson, syndicated cartoonist. Posted ByDaniela at 08:44 AM| Leave a Comment |
