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Under Age and Alone, Immigrants See a Softer Side of Detention
by ANN FARMER Jose was 14 when he left his home in Oaxaca, Mexico, and paid a smuggler $1,200 to sneak him across the border. He made it to Phoenix and started on a long and familiar odyssey as he scratched out a living, first…
Author: The New York Times
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City marks anniversary of resident ID program
Original Source By Mary E. O’Leary, Register Topics Editor NEW HAVEN – The city celebrated the one-year anniversary of the Elm City Resident Card program Thursday by announcing several additional features that will be introduced in a pilot program this fall. Kica Matos, the city’s…
Author: New Haven Register
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Death Penalty Repeal Fails in Colorado
by KIRK JOHNSON DENVER — An effort to repeal Colorado’s death penalty law stumbled Monday in the State Senate after two hours of sometimes anguished and angry debate, leaving the bill in limbo and supporters scrambling to find votes as the end of the session…
Author: The New York Times
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Texas Turns Aside Pressure on Execution of 5 Mexicans
Original Source By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr. HOUSTON – Despite pleas from the White House and the State Department, as well as an international court order to review their cases, Texas will execute five Mexicans on death row, a spokeswoman for the governor said Thursday.…
Author: The New York Times
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‘Two Countries, No Home’
By Verity Oswin Earlier this year, I met a group of young people in Mexico City who call themselves “the other Dreamers,” undocumented young people taken to the United States as children who returned to their birth countries. Some had been deported, while others had…
Author: The New York Times
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How We Adopted the Fourth of July
Perhaps because America is a nation of immigrants, immigration has always been a fraught political issue. How immigrants define themselves and how the laws determine who is welcome and who is not have played out in various ways throughout American history. Yet immigrants are among…
Author: The New York Times
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Amid Arizona immigration protests, a new generation dreams of the Dream Act
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…
Author: The Washington Post
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Democrats Consider Bypassing G.O.P. on Health Care Plan
Original Source News AnalysisBy ROBERT PEAR WASHINGTON — With solid majorities in both houses of Congress, Democrats are tempted to use their political muscle to speed passage of health care legislation with minimal concessions to the Republican minority. That approach may be the only way…
Author: The New York Times
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Richardson Signs Bill Abolishing Death Penalty in N.M.
by Dan Boyd SANTA FE — Gov. Bill Richardson went to Mass on Wednesday morning, then went to inspect the state penitentiary’s high-security area and execution chamber. Then, shortly after 6 p.m., the governor signed legislation to repeal New Mexico’s death penalty. He called it…
Author: Albuquerque Journal
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The six best U.S. cities for addiction treatment and prevention
Communities in Schools is an Atlantic grantee. by Dave Moore & Bill Manville BILL: In my Greenwich Village drinking days, everybody knew “Marvin.” If you wanted a couple of tires for your car, maybe a new TV set, you called him and “put in your…
Author: New York Daily News
