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More than 500 demand Obama's family to stop deportation of their parents
Source: Casa de Maryland
(Press Release dispatched on 27 July 2010) Washington DC - U.S citizen children suffering from family destruction caused by the broken immigration system will come to Washington on July 28th to surround the White House in a wave of suffering. Calling on the President to…
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Xenophobia downplayed, but government quietly taking it seriously
Source: Business Day
By Wilson Johwa. THE government may have chosen to deny the existence of xenophobic violence but was better prepared for it than in 2008, says Gerald Kraak, South African head of the US foundation Atlantic Philanthropies. After the 2008 attacks it commissioned a study whose…
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Houston’s Clergy Unites to Urge Support for Immigration Reform
Source: The New York Times
HOUSTON — The Rev. John W. Bowie knows it is hard to sell the people in his neighborhood on the idea that they should support changing immigration laws to give illegal immigrants a path to citizenship. His church lies in one of the oldest black…
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Amid Arizona immigration protests, a new generation dreams of the Dream Act
Source: The Washington Post
By Marjorie Valbrun. "Everyone who is in this group has been fighting for the Dream Act for years," said Tania Unzueta, 26, who emigrated from Mexico when she was 10 along with her parents and 6-year-old sister. She took part in the sit-in at the…
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America’s Voice Education Fund
$5,000
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Police Chiefs Criticize Arizona Immigration Law
Source: Latin America Herald Tribune
By Maria Peña. WASHINGTON – Ten police chiefs from around the United States used a meeting on Wednesday with Attorney General Eric Holder to complain about a new Arizona law that criminalizes undocumented immigrants.In their hour-long session with Holder, the chiefs expressed their uneasiness over…
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Immigration Overhaul Advocates Question Troops
Source: The New York Times
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg. WASHINGTON — In deciding to deploy up to 1,200 National Guard troops to bolster security at the Mexican border, President Obama has stepped into one of the thorniest issues facing American presidents — illegal immigration — and has confounded allies who…
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University of California Berkeley Foundation
$75,000
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Criticism of conditions in asylum hostels
Source: Irish Examiner
By Jimmy Woulfe, Mid-West Correspondent. An organisation which works with asylum seekers in Limerick has hit out at the living conditions in hostels. Doras Lumni, set up 10 years ago, provides a wide range of services, including English language classes to up to 700 asylum seekers,…
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Marchers hit streets calling on Obama to act immediately on federal immigration reform
Source: The LA Times
By Sophia Tareen.CHICAGO (AP) — Protesters nationwide vented their anger over a new Arizona law to crack down on illegal immigrants by calling on President Barack Obama to immediately take up their cause for federal immigration reform.From Los Angeles to Washington D.C., activists, families, students…
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