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Year: 2009
USCIS – More Fee Hikes On the Horizon
Immigration officials requested 206 million dollars for fee structure reform but the immigration bill sitting on President Obama’s desk has only allocated 55 million. Officials now say that the agency is either going to hike fees or reduce expenditures. USCIS Read More …
CNN Misses the Point with 'Latino in America'
What does it mean to be Latino in America? CNN tries to explore this question in a two-part four-hour documentary hosted by Soledad O’Brian. First, it’s problematic to lump people from diverse countries with diverse backgrounds into a singular category Read More …
California – Failure of a State
Nativists blame it on ‘dirty illegal immigrants.’ Economists are quick to point out the crash as part of a larger recessionary period that the global economy is undergoing. Politicians groan that California’s budget crisis is really Prop 13, an anti-tax Read More …
Census 2010 – Count Everyone
Senators David Vitter (R-LA) and Robert Bennett (R-UT) are counting on fear to prevent undocumented immigrants from participating in the 2010 census. First, they proposed an amendment to add an inquiry about immigration status on the Census Bureau questionnaires as Read More …
Republicans Have No Plans on Immigration Reform
In a nutshell, that is what we can gather from the Jorge Ramos interview with RNC Chairman, Michael Steele. When asked to issue a statement regarding what plans he had for the 12 million undocumented immigrants in the United States, Read More …