Families urge Obama to end deportations

WASHINGTON — Hispanic families and immigrant advocates criticized President Barack Obama Thursday for failing to keep campaign promises to change the U.S. immigration system.

The critics questioned Obama's recent comment that he could not use his executive order powers to suspend deportations because doing so "would not conform with my appropriate role as president." Obama made the comment at a town hall organized by Univision TV network.

The statement has received a lot of attention in immigrant and some Latino communities. Hispanics voted heavily for Obama in 2008 and some have felt he has let Latino supporters down by failing to move an immigration bill providing legal status to some illegal immigrants, while deporting record numbers of immigrants, many of them Hispanics.






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Bill to end tuition break for illegal immigrants dies in Assembly

Legislation to prohibit illegal immigrants from receiving a break on college tuition fees died this week in an Assembly committee.

Assembly Bill 63 by Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, R-Twin Peaks, was rejected Tuesday by the Higher Education Committee, receiving only two votes of support from the nine-member committee.

The bill targeted a select group of illegal immigrants entitled under a state law passed in 2001 to pay in-state resident tuition rates at California state and community colleges. The University of California complies voluntarily.



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A Classic Flip Flop on DREAM Act

Move over John Kerry. The Senate has a new master of the flip-flop.

Sen. John Cornyn recently told a roomful of Hispanic conservatives who support immigration reform that he was in favor of the Dream Act — before he voted against it. Then, the Texas Republican did a rhetorical pirouette and declared he would favor the legislation again if it were part of a comprehensive immigration reform plan.



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Ariz. immigration law pushes workers underground

"Arizona’s 2007 law designed to squeeze illegal immigrants from the workplace has reduced the illegal immigrant population and the number of illegal immigrants in wage and salary jobs. But it has also resulted in many workers simply going underground and receiving money either under the table or as contract workers, according to a new study by the Public Policy Institute of California."

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Ackerman, Mexican consul to discuss immigration

Former state Senator Dick Ackerman, Dr. Tibor Machan of Auburn University and Mexican Consul Alejandra Garcia Williams will get together Thursday for a panel discussion titled “U.S. Immigration Policy in the 21st Century: The Landscape Today and Beyond.”

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Immigration rally in Atlanta draws thousands

Immigration rally in Atlanta draws thousands, organizers say
Republican lawmakers issue response to protest

ATLANTA - About 30 Middle Georgia Hispanics are among thousands from across the state attending a rally at the state Capitol Thursday to protest two immigration bills before the Legislature.
Thursday's rally drew 9,000 people, according to organizers.


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Atlanta Massive Migrant Claims

It discusses two bills that would punish illegal

ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) .- Thousands of people demonstrated yesterday outside the Georgia Capitol to protest anti-immigrant projects, similar to Arizona's controversial law SB1070, which drives the Republican majority in the state legislature.

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