Risks and Returns: Exploiting the Immigrant Detention Industry (www.racewire.org) TMC

Last winter, a remote Texas prison convulsed in a cry of outrage, voicing the desperation of the immigration system’s silenced captives.

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Legal Dissonance: Immigration Policies Clash with Worker Protections (www.racewire.org) TMC

It’s hard to make sense of the news headlines about immigrant workers these days. A police sweep in Maricopa County, Arizona, home of the famously anti-immigrant Sheriff Joe Arpaio, snatched up... More

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Submitted 4 months ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |

Man Behind Birthermercial First Teabagged In Mid-1970s (tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com) TMC

The attorney behind the first-ever Birther infomercial started teabagging way before it was cool.

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Submitted 5 months ago by raquelbrown | 0 Comments |

New Filing From Birther Taitz: Case Is Now A 'Quasi-Criminal Prosecution' Of Me! (tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com) TMC

When we last checked in on the Birther lawsuit Attorney Orly Taitz is pursuing in federal court, Taitz's client, Army Capt. Connie Rhodes, was denouncing Taitz and threatening her with a bar... More

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Submitted 5 months ago by raquelbrown | 0 Comments |

Immigration: Afghan Immigrants Fearful After Arrest (www.wiretapmag.org) TMC

Last week, a Queens imam who immigrated to America from Afghanistan at the age of seven was charged with lying to federal authorities in a case involving a purported New York City bomb plot.

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Birther Kitsch (www.talkingpointsmemo.com) TMC

If you're not living in one of the eleven towns in the South where the new Obama 'birther' informercial is running, we've prepared this birthermercial highlight reel to bring you up to speed.

Tags: tmc,tpm,immigration,birther,south,obama,citizenship

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Immigration Trials Increase During Obama Presidency (news.newamericamedia.org) TMC

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A new report reinforces the belief that the Obama Administration has put an emphasis on border security, reports La Opinion. Nearly 70,000 immigration trials have been held in... More

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Mexicans Don’t Have an Illegal Immigration Hormone (news.newamericamedia.org) TMC

"Into the Beautiful North" is an immigration story with a difference. Nayeli leaves her village in Mexico and crosses the border illegally into the United States. But she’s not coming here for work... More

Tags: tmc,nam,immigration,mexicans,illegal,citizenship,women

Submitted 5 months ago by raquelbrown | 0 Comments |

Immigrant Businesses Try to Beat Recession Blues (news.newamericamedia.org) TMC

Editor’s Note: Small businesses are the backbone of immigrant communities and of local economies, so it’s no wonder that they are feeling the effects of the nation’s economic downturn. As... More

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One in Three Mexicans Would Migrate to U.S. (news.newamericamedia.org) TMC

MEXICO CITY -- One in three Mexicans said they would emigrate to the United States if given the opportunity, and more than half of those say they would do so without authorization, reports La... More

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Submitted 5 months ago by raquelbrown | 0 Comments |

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