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Immigration Reform Could Generate $500 Billion in New Real Estate Transactions
If current legislation that creates a path to legalization for 11 million undocumented immigrants is passed, the nation's Hispanic real estate leaders estimate that it would create a new pool of 3 million homeowners and pump more than $500 billion in sales, income and spending into the U.S. housing economy.
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Jose Antonio Vargas on Using Social Media to Change Perceptions and Policy
It's 4:40 p.m. on a spring Monday in New York City and Jose Antonio Vargas is energized.
10 hrs ago | National Review Online
Immigration Officers' Union Blasts Reform Bill
The president of the National Citizenship and Immigration Services Council announced his opposition to the Gang of Eight immigration bill on Monday, joining dozens of law-enforcement officers from around the country.
Daryl Raetz's Body Circled by Nativist Buzzards
The nativists are a parasitic lot. They gloat when someone is murdered by an "illegal immigrant," or any kind of immigrant, actually.
Amnesty to grant instant U.S. citizenship to criminal gang members who 'renounce' gang affiliation
The longer researchers and analysts have to examine the mammoth 844-page "immigration reform" measure currently under consideration in the Senate, the more giveaways and loopholes they find.
Study finds rise in Muslim, Hindu immigrants to U.S.
Over the same period, the estimated share of green card recipients who belong to religious minorities rose from approximately one-in-five to one-in-four . This includes growing shares of Muslims and Hindus .
GE13: Double jeopardy for migrants
In GE13, we witnessed disturbing patterns of latent animosity that reinforce our already discriminatory and prejudicial attitude towards migrants/immigrants, laments Linda Lumayag .
Woman sentenced ( Probation) for transporting undocumented immigrants
A Honduran woman with legal immigrant status was sentenced to two years probation Friday in Baton Rouge federal court after admitting that she illegally transported minivan loads of undocumented immigrants from Houston to Miami.
"Heil Hitler" - Greek parliament evicts far-right lawmaker for volley of insults
Greece's parliament evicted a far-right lawmaker for insulting rivals in a tumultuous debate on Friday that prompted jeers of "Heil Hitler" from a leftist deputy and bolstered calls to crack down on the nationalist Golden Dawn party.
House lawmakers reach tentative bipartisan immigration deal
Prospects for passage of a major immigration bill improved on Thursday when a bipartisan group of lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives declared they had reached a tentative deal, resolving disputes that had threatened to torpedo negotiations.
Portland prison set to become detention centre for illegal immigrants
The former Victorian military barracks, transformed into a jail more than 60 years ago, could begin a new lease of life as a Home Office immigration unit housing people waiting to be removed from the UK.
Moving to U.S. can be harmful to your health
Esther Angeles, 41, who developed diabetes after moving to the United States, ate lunch with her daughter, Johanna Marisol Gomez, 7, in Brownsville, Texas.
US habits leave migrants with a lot on their plate
Health fears: Esther Angeles, 41, who developed diabetes after moving to the US, eats lunch with her daughter.
Minister blasts immigration policies
Its proposed immigration bill would force short-term migrants to pay for NHS care, compel landlords to check the immigration status of tenants and ensure that illegal immigrants could not get driving licences.
El Centro Sector Border Patrol Arrests Lead to Prosecution and Conviction for 10 Illegal Immigrants
El Centro Sector Border Patrol enforcement operations have led to the recent arrest, conviction, and successful sentencing of 10 illegal immigrants, all of which had prior convictions for other crimes.
The Traumatic Effects of Forced Deportation on Families
Immigration related trauma has many faces. Complex cultural, political and social issues arise when people choose or are forced to leave their country of origin.
U.S. immigration officials surreptitiously released hundreds of criminal aliens
On the same day that Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano announced that she will travel to San Francisco and Los Angeles, Calif., on Friday to meet with technology and business leaders to discuss the need for commonsense immigration reform , a report was released on Thursday that revealed hundreds of criminal aliens were surreptitiously ... (more)
Jasper police charge undocumented immigrant in deadly motorcycle crash, Daily Mountain Eagle reports
Manuel Gutierrez was arrested Tuesday and is charged with first-degree assault in the May 10 collision between the car police say he was driving and two motorcycles on Highway 118, the Daily Mountain Eagle reported Friday .
Two illegal immigrant workers held in new swoop
The swoops by Border Force officers this week were the latest in a series across the district in the last 12 months as a major crackdown continues.
The government is building a network of spies to make immigrants' lives impossible
In the last four years, I have applied for three different types of visas and changed flats four times in the UK.