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7/2/09 Hispanic Youths More Successful if Parents are Bicultural (Latin American Herald Tribune)

7/2/09 Cultural Background Gains Traction as a Legal Defense (Wall Street Journal)

7/2/09 L.A. employers face immigration audits (LA Times)

7/1/09 City Police Chiefs Urge Overhaul of Immigration Policy (NY Times)

7/1/09 Arizona House rejects immigration enforcement bill (Washington Post)

6/27/09 A Way Forward on Immigration (NY Times)

6/26/09 Homeland Security Ordered to Respond to Immigrant Detention Petition (NY Times)

6/25/09 White House Hosts Bipartisan Immigration Talks (Wall Street Journal)

6/25/09 Obama Set for First Step on Immigration Reform (NY Times)

6/24/09 US Immigration Policy Harms Women, Families (Human Rights Watch)

6/24/09 Principles for Immigration Reform (Center for American Progress)

6/23/09 Reid claims he has votes for reform (Politico)

6/23 Graduation Dreams (NY Times)

6/23/09 U.S. immigration rules blamed for tech brain drain (Forbes.com)

6/21/09 Arizona, one of the toughest states on illegal immigration, could harden enforcement (Star Tribune)

6/19/09 Obama is Committed to Immigration Overhaul (Wall Street Journal)

6/19/09 Panel slams U.S. over immigration raid tactics (San Francisco Chronicle)

6/18/09 Catholic bishops urge immigration reform (Boston Globe)

6/18/09 Court backs LAPD immigration policy (San Francisco Chronicle)

6/18/09 Immigration: It's Time (NY Times)

6/17/09 Study Finds Immigration Courtrooms Backlogged (NY Times)

6/17/09 Refugee survey finds fewer people fleeing violence, but conditions remain bad for many who do (MN Star Tribune)

6/16/09 Secret Court Exploits Immigrants (The Nation)

6/16/09 Hate Crimes Rise as Immigration Debate Heats Up (Washington Post)

6/15/09 For immigrants, living the dream is getting tougher (USA Today)

6/12/09 San Francisco at Crossroads Over Immigration (NY Times)

6/10/09 Immigrant Widows Left in Limbo (CBS News)

6/3/09 Same-sex couples fight for immigration rights (CNN)

5/28/09 Cuomo Widens a Probe Into Immigration Fraud (NY Times)

5/27/09 Indictment alleges trafficking in foreign workers (Kansas City Star)

5/11/09 Naturalized Citizens are Poised to Reshape California's Political Landscape (LA Times)

5/8/09 Work Underway on "Virtual Fense" (NY Times)

5/5/09 Dismissal of Guilty Pleas Is Sought for Immigrants (NY Times)

5/4/09 Justices Limit Use of Identity Theft Law in Immigration Cases (NY Times)

5/1/09 Immigrants' Rallies Draw Small Crowds in Flu Scare (NY Times)

4/30/09 Best Ways to Teach Newcomers (NY Times)

4/30/09 Immigration debate new symptom of swine flu outbreak (LA Times)

4/30/09 NY Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's genuine immigration reform push (NY Daily News)

4/30/09 Black Women, Hispanics Fuel Voter Turnout in 2008 (ABC News)

4/29/09 Struggling in the Suburbs (NY Times)

4/29/09 Cops not speeding to enforce immigration laws (Salt Lake Tribune)

4/29/09 Immigrant Influx Tests a Minneapolis Hospital (NY Times Photo Essay)

4/26/09 2 Iowa towns, 2 views on immigration raids (MSNBC)

4/23/09 After Losing Freedom, Some Immigrants Face Loss of Custody of Children (NY Times)

4/22/09 Poor Latinos are victims of abuse nation wide, activists say (CNN)

4/17/09 Illegal immigrants detained, freed to work (CNN)

4/18/09 Struggling to Rise in Suburbs where Failing Means Fitting In (NY Times)

4/14/09 Children of the Deported (MPR)

4/13/09 Immigration Legal System Does Not Protect Rights (Yahoo News)

4/10/09 Immigration Reform: Will The Climate Ever Be Right? (CNN)

4/9/09 U.S. Citizens Caught Up In Immigration Sweeps (LA Times)

4/8/09 Border Deaths Up Despite Apparent Dip in Crossings (AP)

4/8/09 A Home for Libeirans- Help Them Cope With Torture (Star Tribune)

4/8/09 Obama to Push Immigration Bill as One Priority (NY Times)

3/27/09 A Risky New Push for Immigration Legislation (LA Times)

3/26/09 Few Signs of Spring for Day Laborers (NY Times)

3/25/09 Mexicans seeking asylum: 'The fear never ends' (CNN)

3/25/09 Obama to Beef up Mexico Border Policy (CNN)

3/21/09 Cardinal Calls for End to Immigration Raids (AP)

3/21/09 Liberians in New York ‘Jubilant’ at Expulsion Reprieve (NY Times)

3/21/09 A Slippery Place in the U.S. Work Force (NY Times)

3/17/09 Immigration Agency is Criticized on Health Care (NY Times)

3/14/09 Where Education and Assimilation Collide (NY Times)

3/8/09  Border arrests drop to 1970s levels (LA Times)

3/7/09  Effects Felt Two Years After Raid on Massachusets Warehouse (Boston Globe)

3/5/09  Immigration Program Stirs Clash of Views (Washington Post)

3/5/09  Congresswoman Calls For Humane Treatment of Immigration Detainees

3/5/09  Immigration reform movement looks to evangelicals, children left behind by deported parents (Chicago Tribune)

3/3/09  Haitian Deportations to Continue (NY Times)

3/3/09  Report Questions Immigration Program (NY Times)

2/21/09  Exodus of Migrants From Mexico Falls by More Than Half

2/20/09  Government Offers Look at Nation's Immigrants

2/19/09  Mexico's Shrinking Families Could Cut Flow to U.S.

2/16/09 Health Departments Fight Tuberculosis on Both Sides of the U.S. Border with Mexico (Chicago Tribune)

2/14/09 Over 100,000 Deportees Had Children in U.S. (A.P.)

2/14/09 U.S. Military Will Offer Path To Citizenship (NY Times)

2/12/09 In enforcement era, communities prepare for raids (A.P.)

2/12/09 Elderly immigrants find life in U.S. a tough go (L.A. Times)

2/11/09 Report Faults Homeland Security's Efforts on Immigration (NY Times)

2/9/09 Recession slows illegal border crossings (Dallas News)

2/9/09 Liberians facing mass deportation from U.S. (CNN)

2/9/09 Immigration agency's airline flies tens of thousands of deportees out of the U.S. (Chicago Tribune)

2/6/09 As the Global Economy Sinks, Tensions Over Immigration Rise (TIME)

2/3/09 Target of Immigration Raids Shifted (NY Times)

1/29/09 For Refugees, Recession Makes Hard Times Even Harder (NY Times)

1/27/09 Another Jail Death, and Mounting Questions (NY Times)

1/25/09 Tough illegal immigration law ignored (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

1/24/09 In School for the First Time, Teenage Immigrants Struggle (NY Times)

1/24/09 A bitter struggle for the last jobs anybody wants (Herald Tribune)

1/22/09 Immigrant Advocates Call for End to Raids (Washington Post)

1/22/09 On both sides of Mexico border, immigrant families struggle with faltering economy (Star Tribune)

1/22/09 Two Sides of a Border: One Violent, One Peaceful (NY Times)

1/20/09 Report Faults Treatment of Women Held at Immigration Centers (NY Times)

1/17/09 The Refugees Who Saved Lewiston (Newsweek)

1/17/09 Catholics to Begin Ministry for Deported Mexicans (New Haven Register)

1/16/09 Few Special Immigration Visas Issued (USA Today)

1/16/09 U.S. Issues Scathing Report on Immigrant Who Died in Detention (NY Times)

1/15/09 No Hard Sign of Reverse Migration (NY Times)

1/15/09 Recession Unlikely to Drive Away Illegal Immigrants, Report Finds (Washington Post)

1/11/09 Push on Immigration Crimes Is Said To Shift Focus (NY Times)

11/23/08 Immigration War Hits Home (Huntsville Times)

11/20/08 Immigration Raids Continue in Iowa (The Daily Iowan)

11/20/08 Residency Dream Becomes Deportation Nightmare (NY Times)

11/12/08 Advocates say [immigration] rhetoric fuels anti-Hispanic crime (Associated Press)

11/7/08 Seeking language and cultural expertise, intelligence agencies open ranks to immigrants (Associated Press)

11/6/08 2008 Sees Most New U.S. Citizens in More Than 100 Years (CNN)

11/6/08 Bush Administration Makes Immigration Strides in 2008 (Associated Press)

10/24/08 As U.S. Economy Sours, Some Migrants Return South (Washington Post)

10/23/08 U.S. to renew push for crackdown on illegal workers (LA Times)

10/23/08 Immigration Raids In Madelia, St. James (WCCO)

10/20/08 Hitting a Wall on Immigration (Washington Post)

10/19/08 A Growing Divide at the Border (Washington Post)

10/17/08 Arizona Sheriff Conducts Immigration Raid at City Hall, Angering Officials (NY Times)

10/17/08 Microsoft set to help the littlest immigrants (Seattle Times)

10/16/08 A Somali Influx Unsettles Latino Meatpackers (NY Times)

10/15/08 Unauthorized Immigration Declining, Experts Disagree on Why (Migration Policy Institute)

10/14/08 The Power of the Immigrant and Latino Vote in 2008 Election (America's Voice)

10/14/08 Mayor: Feds turned my town 'topsy turvy' (CNN News)

10/13/08 Arizona Town Rethinks Immigrant Stance (LA Times)

10/13/08 Candidates Agree on Immigration, but ads don't show it (McClatchy Washington Bureau)

10/12/08 Illegal Aliens Hard at Work on North Farms (Watertown Daily Times)

10/8/08 Immigration Activists Campaign to get out the Vote (Chicago Tribune)

10/7/08 Immigration Reform Vital for U.S. Agriculture (SW Farm Press)

10/2/08 Fewer Reported Entering U.S. Illegally (NY Times)

10/1/08 Gardasil Requirement for Immigrants Stirs Backlash (Wall Street Journal)

10/1/08 Sri Lankan Man Wins Battle for Asylum (LA Times)

9/30/08 Federal agents target those who ignored deportation orders or returned to the U.S. illegally. More than 400 are arrested in the Los Angeles area. (LA Times)

9/29/08 California: Arrests in Federal Immigration Raids (NY Times)

9/24/08 Mexico Quietly Helps Emigrants to U.S. Learn Spanish (Associated Press)

9/23/08 U.S. Census Survey Finds more Immigrants are Joining the Mainstream (LA Times)

9/23/2008 Citizenship Seekers Told Not to Fear a New Test (NY Times)

9/22/2008 Mukasey Vacates Panel’s Decision Denying Asylum to Malian Woman (NY Times)

9/21/08 States Make Immigration Arrests under Federal Program (Associated Press)

9/14/08 On the Lookout for Immigration Raids (LA Times)

9/13/08 U.S. to Admit 17,000 Iraqi Exiles (Washington Post)

9/13/08 Catholic Church working immigration policies (Spero News)

9/11/08 Southern California's Dual Citizens See Little Conflict (LA Times)

9/11/08 Are Illegal Immigrants Good for the U.S. Economy? (New York Times)

9/9/08 Midwife Delivery Can Lead to Passport Denial (Washington Post)

9/3/08 Rabbis Endorse Certification Plan (NY Times)

9/2/08 Raid's Outcome May Signal a Retreat In Immigration Strategy, Critics Say (Washington Post)

8/31/08 Immigrant Raid Divides a Mississippi Town (Los Angeles Times)

8/27/08 ACLU Investigating Largest Raid in the Country (ACLU)

8/26/08 Doctors Fear Effects of Illegal Immigrant's Arrest (NPR Audio version)

8/25/08 Hundreds of Workers Held in Immigration Raid (NY Times)

8/22/08 Immigration agency vows more enforcement after self-deportation offer ends with few volunteers (Star Tribune)

8/22/08 RI bishop: stop immigration raids (Eyewitness News TV)

8/21/08 Bishop wants U.S. to halt immigration raids (Turn 10 TV)

8/3/2008 Immigrants Facing Deportation by U.S. Hospitals (NY Times)

7/28/2008 Iowa Rally Protests Raid and Conditions at Plant (NY Times)

7/27/2008 After Iowa Raid, Immigrants Fuel Labor Inquiries (NY Times)

7/15/2008 Group Calls for Inquiry Into Death of Detainee (NY Times)

7/11/08 An Interpreter Speaking Up for Migrants (NY Times)

7/9/08 What if we threw out all the illegal immigrants? (MSN News)

7/4/08 Cathedral hosts hearing on national commission's investigation of alleged abuse by ICE agents at worksites (Tidings Online)

7/3/08 Federal Report Recommends Improvements in Reporting Deaths of Immigrant Detainees (NY Times)

6/30/08 Custody case of Long Beach boy complicates deportation of illegal immigrant (Los Angeles Times)

6/28/08 There's something bad in this town (Star Tribune)

6/19/08 White House Report Lauds Immigrants' Positive Effects (NY Times)

6/1/08 A Lethal Limbo for Imigrants (Los Angeles Times)

5/29/08 Judge Voids an Ordinance on Immigrants (NY Times)

5/27/08 With Migrant Workers in Short Supply, a Farmer Looks to Machines (NY Times)

5/27/08 U.S. border agents, lured by the other side (International Herald Tribune)

5/24/08 270 Illegal Immigrants Sent to Prison in Federal Push (NY Times)

5/17/08 Immigration raid on kosher meatpacking plant, 389 arrests rattles Iowa town (Twincities.com; original Article from the Washington Post)

5/14/08 Immigrants Sedated Without Medical Reason (MIRA Coalition; original article from the Washington Post)

05/14/08 Italian’s Detention Illustrates Dangers Foreign Visitors Face (NY Times)

05/13/08 Hundreds Are Arrested in U.S. Sweep of Meat Plant  (New York Times)

05/13/08 Study Says Foreigners In U.S. Adapt Quickly (Washington Post)

05/13/08 Suicides Point to Gaps in Treatment (Washington Post)

05/11/08 As Tighter Immigration Policies Strain Federal Agencies, The Detainees in Their Care Often Pay a Heavy Cost (Washington Post)

05/08/08 Juan Crow in Georgia (The Nation)

05/05/08 For Immigrants Who Died in U.S. Custody, Few Details Provided  (New York Times)

05/02/08 May Day March Smaller, But Festive (LA Times)

05/01/08 Thousands Rally in May Day Effort for Immigration Reform (Associated Press)

05/01/08 Fewer Latino Immigrants Sending Money Home (New York Times)

04/20/08 Pope Speaks Up for Immigrants, Touching a Nerve (New York Times)

04/18/08 Minnesota Minorities Here to Stay but not Home Yet (Mshale)

04/18/08 Tally of Those Arrested in Immigration Raids at Pilgrim's Pride Plants Climbs to 311 (The Dallas Morning News)

04/17/08 People of Mexican origin in Minnesota: myth vs. reality (Twin Cities Daily Planet)

04/17/08 Immigration, Off the Books (New York Times)

04/14/08 Immigrant Tells of Hard Choices (BBC News, Chicago)

04/11/08 Share Your Immigration Stories (New York Times)

04/14/2008 Perfectly Legal Immigrants, Until They Applied for Citizenship (New York Times)

04/14/2008 Crackdown on Immigrants Draws Protests in Phoenix (New York Times)

04/04/2008 Lawsuit Challenges Immigration Raids in New Jersey  (New York Times)

04/02/2008 U.S. Gives Maine a Deadline of Today to Say It Will Comply With ID Law (New York Times)

04/02/2008 Environmental rules waived for border fence (LA Times)

03/31/2008 Arizona Considers a Guest Worker Program of Its Own  (The Christian Science Monitor)

03/26/2008 10 Prints Are Better Than 2, Homeland Security Says (New York Times)

03/26/2008 Immigration And Social Security (CBS News)

03/18/08 U.S. Tries to Shut Revolving Door of Illegal Reentry (LA Times)

 

03/14/08 The University of Uncertainty (Washington Post)

03/14/2008 Businesses Face Cut in Immigrant Work Force (New York Times)

03/13/08 New York Times Editorial Today:The Road to Dystopia (New York Times)

03/13/08 Gates Tells Congress What Is Needed for Better Work Force (New York Times)

03/08/08 Immigration policy in U.S. is criticized by U.N. aid (New York Times)

03/07/08 Latinos Seek Citizenship in Time for Voting (New York Times)

03/06/08 A year after raid, immigration cases drag on for many (The Boston Globe)

03/05/08 GOP senators to introduce toughest-yet immigration package (LA Times)

03/04/08 Feds Cite Hassles if ID Law Not Followed (The Seattle Times)

02/18/08 Feared sweeps for illegal workers found just one (New York Times)

02/17/08 US bishops ask ICE to assist families, communities after immigration raids (Catholic News Agency)

02/16/08 Phoenix Police to Check Arrestees’ Immigrant Status (New York Times)

02/15/08 Employees Detained During a Raid by Federal Agents in Van Nuys were Denied Access to Attorneys, a Court Petition Says (LA Times)

02/13/08 Georgia teen, a plaintiff in SPLC suit, tells House Subcommittee about terrifying immigration raid (Southern Poverty Law Center)

02/13/08 U.S. program to verify worker status is growing (New York Times)

02/10/08 In reversal, courts uphold local immigration laws (New York Times)

02/06/08 Connecticut city plans to team its police with federal immigration agents (New York Times)

02/06/08 Overhaul set for guest-worker program (LA Times)

02/05/08 U.S. program accepted 1,324 Iraqi refugees in past four months (Washington Post)

02/05/08 Issues start rush to citizenship by Hispanics (New York Times)

02/05/08 Citizenship path sometimes rocky (Philadelphia Inquirer)

02/02/08 Immigration battle divides AZ GOP (Washington Post)

01/31/08 Somali refugee wins U.S. State Department award for courage (UNHCR)

01/29/08 Citizenship backlog to curb Latino vote (The Dalls Morning News)

01/26/08 U.S. citizen's near-deportation not a rarity (Star Tribune)

01/23/08 Vietnam agrees to the return of deportees from the U.S. (New York Times)

01/22/08 Asylum program falls short for Iraqis aiding U.S. forces (Washington Post)

01/18/08 Legal immigrants facing a longer wait (New York Times)

01/18/08 Facing deportation but clinging to life in U.S. (New York Times)

01/18/08 Politics wrapped in a clothing ad (New York Times)

01/18/08 One argument, 12 million holes (New York Times)

01/17/08 Chertoff: Tougher ID rules for borders (Associated Press)

01/12/08 Refugees in the cold (New York Times)

12/30/07 Immigration and the candidates (New York Times)

12/28/07 Immigration dominates the debate in Iowa vote (Star Tribune)

12/25/07 Immigration hotline is a one-woman show (LA Times)

12/12/07 GOP rivals veer right on immigration (LA Times)

12/12/07 ICE raids - One year later (The Tribune - Northern Colorado)

11/05/07 Immigration detainees are at record levels (LA Times)

11/04/07 Citizenship applications climb despite fee hike (New York Times)

11/04/07 Protest styles presented a clash of cultures, and one side decisively won (Washington Post)

11/04/07 Household workers are the unseen face of immigration issues (AP)

11/03/07 Ni hao! Yo! Hola.  (Star Tribune)

10/28/07 Editorial: What part of "illegal" don't you understand? (New York Times)

10/27/09 Homeland Security, New York agree on new driver's license (CNN)

10/26/07 Mexicans miss money from relatives up north (New York Times)

10/25/07 Shift is afoot on Mexican Border (Wall Street Journal)

10/25/07 Lawmakers seek 'sanctuary cities' crackdown (USA Today)

10/25/07 Immigration raids hurt farmers (Business Week)

10/25/07 Editorial: Dreams crushed (Washington Post)

10/22/07 Editorial: Ain't that America (New York Times)

10/21/07 Environmental laws waived to press work on border fence (New York Times)

10/18/07 Judge orders Kambo released on bond (Austin Statesman) 

10/17/07 The heartbreak of a defective immigration system (Baltimore Sun)

10/17/07 Immigrant family detained after daughter speaks out (USA Today)

10/17/07 Don't fence them in (LA Times)

10/16/07 Citizenship via grandparents (Wall Street Journal)

10/16/07 New license rules slam some legal residents (State Line)

10/15/07 Businesses feel effects of raids on illegal labor (Talk of the Nation - National Public Radio)

10/15/07 When immigration goes up prices go down (Washington Post)

10/15/07 States' immigrant policies diverge (Washington Post)

10/15/07 Sweden top for welcoming immigrants (BBC)

10/14/07 Walking a virtual mile in someone's shoes (Star Tribune)

10/14/07 State strikes balance on immigration (New York Times)

10/14/07 No need for a warrent, you're an immigrant (New York Times)

10/14/07 Editorial: Protecting farmworkers (New York Times)

10/14/07 Match game hard on farmers (Chicago Tribune)

10/14/07 Tancredo seeks to overturn 'No Match" court ruling (US Daily)

10/12/07 OK agency backs care for undocumented moms (News OK)

10/12/07 Immigrants and laureates (Washington Post)

10/12/07 Editorial: Crackdown in hold (New York Times)

10/12/07 Crackdown upends slaughterhouse's work force (New York Times)

10/10/07 GOP pressing immigrant issue (The Arizona Republic)

10/10/07 Migrant must go and$49,000 stays US says (Miami Herald)

10/10/07 Immigrant's sex with minor does not merit deportation, court rules (San Francisco Chronicle)

10/9/07 Polling report: Immigration

10/8/07 Immigration, black sheep and Swiss rage (New York Times)

10/7/07 Immigrants dream nightmare for critics (Chicago Tribune)

10/6/07 The presidential candidates on immigration (NewYork Times)

10/5/07 Border fence stirs mixed emotions (National Public Radio - Audio and text)

10/5/07 Betwixt and between the dream (Washington Post)

10/5/07 In new memoir award-winning novelist Edwidge Danticat chronicles death of her uncle at federal immigration jail (Democracy Now)

10/04/07 Editorial: Stop the raids (NewYork Times)

10/4/07 Students withdraw as deportation fears reach Irving schools (Dallas Morning News)

10/4/07 Door remains open at Hutto (Houston Chronicle)

10/04/07 Editorial: Chaos coming (Washington Post)

10/4/07 Citizens caught up in immigration raid (New York Times)

10/3/07 Raids were a shambles, Nassau complains to U.S. (New York Times)

10/3/07 Audio: Virtual border security behind schedule (National Public Radio)

10/3/07 Audio: Judge blocks progeram to ID illegal immigrants (National Public Radio)

10/02/07 Officials protest antigang raids focused on immigrants (New York Times)

10/2/07 Judge delays crackdown on employers of illegal workers (San Francisco Chronicle)

07/06  Patricia's story (Sojourners Magazine)

07/06  10 myths about immigrants (Sojourners Magazine)

07/06  Exactly where I'm supposed to be: Jesus himself was a child immigrant  (Sojourners Magazine)

07/06 Justice for immigrants: Remember you were once foreigners... (Sojourner Magazine)