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Despite California facing deep cuts to its education budget, the state assembly's Higher Education Committee has decided to advance the California Dream Act to the Assembly Appropriations Committee. On Tuesday, committee members voted 6-2 and 5-2 to allow illegal immigrants to access institutional and state financial aid with
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While recent census figures indicate that California is rapidly becoming a melting pot of immigrants on the road to becoming the new majority, a debate is sure to materialize in a California Assembly committee hearing today over the California Dream Act (AB 130). At the heart of the matter will
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Over the past decade, the Golden State has experienced significant growth in the number of its minority residents. Led by Hispanics, minorities now comprise about three out of every five Californians. "The state's Hispanic population grew by more than a quarter in the last decade, and Latinos
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As California enters its second week of full enrollment in the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency's Secure Communities program, a California-based immigrant rights group claims that it's creating an unsuitable environment for the state's illegal immigrant population. "While publicly insisting that S-Comm targets
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Texas Republican Congressman and House Judiciary Committee head Lamar Smith defended stricter immigration enforcement measures at the national level, citing the fiscally negative impact that illegal immigration has had in states like California. He also deflected the charge that the policies are anti-immigrant. "California is expected to have a
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All police departments in the state with the highest population of illegal immigrants are now equipped to work with federal immigration authorities to determine the legal status of all suspects arrested under a federal program originally implemented in May 2009. Reported last week by several local outlets, all of California
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According to a recent Modesto Bee editorial, the costs associated with housing imprisoned illegal immigrants who commit offenses in California are on track to becoming an unfunded liability for the state's taxpayers, due in part to the federal government fleeing from their responsibility to share in those very
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As those immersed in the immigration debate configure their tactical strategy to reform a currently unsatisfactory system, both major political ideologies face the prospect of losing credibility in winning over critically-thinking voters. Over the holiday weekend, the NBC Los Angeles news affiliate reported that an immigrant rights group orchestrated an
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Michael Bennett, Florida Senate President Pro Tempore, expressed no confidence in the federal government's current ability to fix a broken immigration system, according to a recent News-Press of Fort Myers editorial. Fixing America's impaired immigration system is not a simple matter, he said, instead offering that
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Recently speaking before a key Hispanic audience through the Spanish television network Univision, The Hill newspaper blog reports that First Lady Michelle Obama placed blame for her husband's inability to pass immigration reform on the Republican Party, saying that legislation like the DREAM Act has been a top
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In a speech on Tuesday night at the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, immigration hawk Joe Arpaio of Arizona said that California's lax immigration policies are to blame for the state's lingering high concentration of illegal immigrants. "Unfortunately, everybody we arrest is headed for California,
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Contrary to the perception that Republicans are the only ones desiring a return to strict workplace immigration enforcement, the Wall Street Journal and others are reporting that immigration authorities under President Obama are utilizing harsh measures with popular restaurant chains like Chipotle. According to The Wall Street Journal, the chain