Gonzalez says U.S House will OK immigration reform

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Saturday May 31, 2008 · 10:30 AM PDT

2008/05/31 · 10:30

Sweeping immigration reform legislation will be approved by the U.S. House by this time next year, no matter who is elected president in November, U.S. Rep. Charlie Gonzalez, D-San Antonio, predicted yesterday.

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Do you think sweeping immigration reform legislation will be approved by the U.S. House by this time next year, no matter who is elected president in November?

43 votes Vote Now!

Do you think sweeping immigration reform legislation will be approved by the U.S. House by this time next year, no matter who is elected president in November?

Yes-Secure Borders and allows undocumented immigrants who are in good standing to pay a fine, learn English, and go to the back of the line for the opportunity to become citizens.

30 votes

No-Secure Borders and deport every single illegal aliens out of the country.

4 votes

Maybe-Depends on who controls congress next year.

9 votes

Texas Town's Immigrant-Renting Rule Struck Down

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Thursday May 29, 2008 · 9:57 AM PDT

2008/05/29 · 09:57

A Dallas suburb's ban on apartment rentals to illegal immigrants, an ordinance passed by the city leaders and later endorsed in a vote by its residents, is unconstitutional, a federal judge found Wednesday. Only the federal government can regulated immigration, U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay concluded in his decision.

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Do you think cities like Farmers Branch should make their own immigration rules and ordinance since the federal government is not doing it?

35 votes Vote Now!

Do you think cities like Farmers Branch should make their own immigration rules and ordinance since the federal government is not doing it?

Yes- Make immigration rules at all levels of government as each level sees fit.

5 votes

No- Making immigration laws is the job of the federal government and the federal government only.

17 votes

Immigration Reform Needed to fix this problem-Secure Borders and allows undocumented immigrants who are in good standing to pay a fine, learn English, and go to the back of the line for the opportunity to become citizens.

13 votes

Obama Blames Dobbs for Hate Crimes Increase?

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Wednesday May 28, 2008 · 12:07 PM PDT

2008/05/28 · 12:07

Senator Barack Obama last week told a Florida crowd that Lou Dobbs contributed to a rise in hate crimes in this country. And as the primary season comes to a close at a fundraiser closed to cameras in Florida Thursday night the senator again took aim at Lou, saying quote, 'There's a reason why hate crimes against Hispanic people doubled last year. If you have people like Lou Dobbs and Rush Limbaugh ginning things up, it's not surprising that would happen,'" CNN's Bill Tucker said.

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Do you think CNN Lou Dobbs is a racist, and just use his wife Mexican American background as a cover up?

274 votes Vote Now!

Do you think CNN Lou Dobbs is a racist, and just use his wife Mexican American background as a cover up?

Yes

200 votes

35 votes

Maybe

39 votes

Uninsured Immigrant Patients Sent Home for Care Against Their Will

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Tuesday May 27, 2008 · 7:43 AM PDT

2008/05/27 · 07:43

Hundreds of legal and illegal immigrants in Arizona are being sent back to their home countries, sometimes against their will, for medical treatment because they lack insurance.

In some cases, the FBI and police, responding to allegations of kidnapping, have been called in to halt such forcible removals, according to patients' lawyers.

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Do you think uninsured illegal Immigrant Patients should be sent home for care against their will?

61 votes Vote Now!

Do you think uninsured illegal Immigrant Patients should be sent home for care against their will?

Yes- return all sick illegals to sender and deport all who seek medical aide.

18 votes

No- find a way to help them without sending them back home.

37 votes

I do not care

6 votes

McCain reverses course on immigration reform (again), drawing far-right rebuke

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Sunday May 25, 2008 · 10:30 AM PDT

2008/05/25 · 10:30

When John McCain’s presidential campaign faltered badly last summer, there were a variety of problems, but near the top of the list was McCain’s work on a comprehensive immigration reform measure, which most Republican activists hated with a vengeance. McCain ultimately decided to abandon his own legislation, and announced earlier this year that he wouldn’t even vote for his own bill.
Now that he’s locked down the Republican nomination, McCain has decided to reverse course again, re-embracing the position he abandoned in order to gain GOP support.
In yet another sign of his pivoting toward the general election, Senator John McCain said at a roundtable with business leaders here today that comprehensive immigration reform should be a top priority for the next president.
Mr. McCain’s willingness to address the issue was striking given how the topic became something of a third-rail for Republican presidential candidates during the primary. [...]
Mr. McCain largely stopped talking about the issue and repeatedly invoked a mantra that he had gotten the message from voters that the borders needed to be secured first, before any solution for the illegal immigrants already here is addressed.

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Do you think the new president should pledge to help pass comprehensive immigration reform to fix our broken immigration in congress the first100 days in office?

42 votes Vote Now!

Do you think the new president should pledge to help pass comprehensive immigration reform to fix our broken immigration in congress the first100 days in office?

Yes-Yes-Secure Borders and allows undocumented immigrants who are in good standing to pay a fine, learn English, and go to the back of the line for the opportunity to become citizens.

30 votes

No- No-Secure Borders and deport every single illegal aliens out of the country.

7 votes

I do not care what they do about immigration .

5 votes

THE END IS NEAR!! Bush's Last Day counting down the final days of the worst presidency !

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Saturday May 24, 2008 · 5:05 AM PDT

2008/05/24 · 05:05

I will do whatever it takes, by all legal means to see to it that John Mccain does not become President of this country!

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Are you counting down the days until George W. Bush is out of the White House?

53 votes Vote Now!

Are you counting down the days until George W. Bush is out of the White House?

Yes

52 votes

0 votes

I Do Not Care

1 vote

Phoenix Police Widen Immigration Enforcement

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Friday May 23, 2008 · 10:06 AM PDT

2008/05/23 · 10:06

Phoenix Police may now contact ICE when they suspect a persn to be in the country illegally, a shift in policy that is expected to increase the number of illegal immigrants deported from the state. Under the new policy everyone arrested in Phoenix will be questioned about his or her citizenship. If an officer makes contact with someone who did not commit a crime but is still believed to be in the country illegally, the officer can give ICE that person's contact information over the phone or via a one page form.

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Do you think local law enforcement should contact ICE when they suspect a persn to be in the country illegally?

47 votes Vote Now!

Do you think local law enforcement should contact ICE when they suspect a persn to be in the country illegally?

Yes- All law enforcement agencies should help enforce our immigration laws.

16 votes

No- The job of immigration enforcement is one of the federal government.

18 votes

Immigration Reform Needed-Secure Borders and allows undocumented immigrants who are in good standing to pay a fine, learn English, and go to the back of the line for the opportunity to become citizens.

13 votes

Visa Path For Some Jobs To Be Eased

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Thursday May 22, 2008 · 4:33 PM PDT

2008/05/22 · 16:33

With restaurants and resorts facng summer shortages, the Bush administration will announce federal regulations today to streamline the way foreign workers enter the United States for seasonal jobs. The rules being rewritten relate to helping employers find and hire workers for temporary jobs as landscapers, waitresses and crab pickers more efficiently than current guidelines allow. One major change affecting construction and shipyards will be the definition of "temporary" which will be drastically expanded from the current 10 months to 3 years.

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Do you think congress should be the ones to fix this shortage problem or the Bush administration?

15 votes Vote Now!

Do you think congress should be the ones to fix this shortage problem or the Bush administration?

Yes-Secure Borders and reform our immigration laws to allows undocumented immigrants who are in good standing to pay a fine, learn English, and who are already here an opportunity to fill this shortage.

6 votes

No- No more seasonal immigrants or new visas.

9 votes

Democrats Decry Immigration Raid at Iowa Processing Plant

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Wednesday May 21, 2008 · 8:09 AM PDT

2008/05/21 · 08:09

Democrats are criticizing a recent government work-site raid targeted at illegal employees, asserting that the action separated parents from their children and devastated the local community.

Witnesses at a House Education and Labor subcommittee hearing yesterday testified that a May 12 operation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at Agriprocessors Inc. in Postville, Iowa, left hundreds of children in the lurch as their parents disappeared.

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Do you think its right the way the Bush administrative is enforcing our immigration laws?

34 votes Vote Now!

Do you think its right the way the Bush administrative is enforcing our immigration laws?

Yes- strictly enforce ALL of our immigration laws.

13 votes

No-Secure Borders and reform our immigration laws to allows undocumented immigrants who are in good standing to pay a fine, learn English, and go to the back of the line for the opportunity to become citizens.

21 votes

Ariz. Governor Ends Sheriff's Immigration Contract

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Monday May 19, 2008 · 10:20 AM PDT

2008/05/19 · 10:20

Arizona Govenor Janet Napolitano ordered the state to end an anti-illegal immigration contract with a high-profile sheriff last week so she can pay for a larger effort to track down thousands of felons around Arizona.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio criticized the governor's decision as a maneuver to thwart his efforts against illegal immigrants. "Dirty politics are at work right now," Arpaio said at a news conference.

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Do you think Arizona Govenor Janet Napolitano did the right thing ordered the state to end an anti-illegal immigration contract with Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio since its the job of th federal government to enforce immigration laws?

163 votes Vote Now!

Do you think Arizona Govenor Janet Napolitano did the right thing ordered the state to end an anti-illegal immigration contract with Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio since its the job of th federal government to enforce immigration laws?

Yes

154 votes

9 votes

Feinstein, Lofgren Push for Immigrant Workers

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Saturday May 17, 2008 · 6:37 PM PDT

2008/05/17 · 18:37

California's most immigrant dependent industries, agriculture and Silicon Valley, are pushing narrow measures through Congress in an effort to employ foreign workers at opposite ends of the labor market, people who pick vegetables and the post graduate engineers and scientists of Silicon Valley. Senator Dianne Feinstein attached a farm guest worker program to the giant Iraq spending bill Thursday in a last ditch effort to remedy a shortage of workers in California's produce fields as the Federal Government continues to crack down on illegal immigration and the political climate proves hostile to more sweeping measures. Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-San Jose, teaming with Republicans, is pushing several bills to give permanent residence to top engineering talent.

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Do you think the new president should pledge to help pass comprehensive immigration reform to fix our broken immigration in congress the first100 days in office?

35 votes Vote Now!

Do you think the new president should pledge to help pass comprehensive immigration reform to fix our broken immigration in congress the first100 days in office?

Yes-Secure Borders and allows undocumented immigrants who are in good standing to pay a fine, learn English, and go to the back of the line for the opportunity to become citizens.

24 votes

No-Secure Borders and deport every single illegal aliens out of the country

11 votes

Immigrants Protest Amtrak And Greyhound

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Thursday May 08, 2008 · 1:07 PM PDT

2008/05/08 · 13:07

It's becoming harder to travel for many illegal immigrants these days as the federal government cracks down on identification requirements for boarding airlines and appears to be increasing the number of Border Patrol sweeps on long distance trains and buses.

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Do you think amtrak and greyhound should warn passengers that they could be deported by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) if they board buses and trains inside the country?

59 votes Vote Now!

Do you think amtrak and greyhound should warn passengers that they could be deported by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) if they board buses and trains inside the country?

Yes

25 votes

18 votes

Comprehensive Immigration Reform to fix the immigration system

16 votes

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