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4-Year-Old Girl Sent to Guatemala in Immigration Dispute Returns to NY
By Lisa Flam - AOL NewsA 4-year-old girl sent back to her family's native Guatemala in an immigration dispute earlier this month has returned home to New York, where she was reunited with her family early today. Emily Ruiz, who hadn't seen her family in five months, was greeted with hugs from her mother at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport, The New York Times reported. "We are so happy that Emily has finally been reunited with her family in the United States, where she belongs," her parents' lawyer, David Sperling, told The Associated Press. Sperling accompanied Emily on the flight, the AP said. The dispute ...
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Alabama House Bill 56: The Immigrant Trespassing Law Explained
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsA new bill aimed at curbing illegal immigration is causing controversy in Alabama. House Bill 56, modeled on similarly controversial immigration legislation in Arizona, passed the Alabama House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee today. That means it will move on to debate by the full House of Representatives as early as Thursday. Here's the lowdown on HB 56, which prompted opposition rallies in Montgomery even before it reached the committee vote. It would require immigration status checks for workers The Montgomery Advertiser reports that HB 56 would mandate use of the federal ...
Most Americans Favor Citizenship for U.S.-Born Children of Illegal Immigrants
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyWhile Americans still favor strong measures to crack down on illegal immigration, they oppose proposals to change the Constitution so that children born here to illegal immigrants would not automatically become citizens, according to a Pew Research Center poll conducted Feb. 2-7. Proposals to deny citizenship to what immigration hardliners call "anchor babies" born in the U.S. to illegal immigrant parents are unpopular with the public. Fifty-seven percent oppose changing the Constitution's 14th amendment that grants automatic citizenship to anyone born on American soil. Thirty-nine percent ...
Illegal Immigration: Numbers Holding at 11.2 Million Despite Crackdowns
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailySome 11.2 million illegal immigrants lived in the United States in 2010, virtually the same as a year earlier and holding steady after peaking at 12 million in 2007, according to a new report from the Pew Hispanic Center. Related Stories Immigration End Game: DREAM Act Defeated in the Senate The numbers remained stuck at just over 11 million despite the slow economic recovery, high unemployment and stepped up deportations by the Obama administration. States such as Arizona have also taken harder stands against undocumented workers. Pew said its study, based on Census ...
Said Jaziri: 5 Facts About the Muslim Imam Caught After Illegally Crossing the Mexican Border
By David Knowles - AOL NewsWelcome to America! U.S. Border Patrol agents made an interesting discovery when they stopped a car 50 miles east of San Diego earlier this month. Inside the trunk of a BWM that was allegedly being driven by immigrant smugglers from Mexico, they found Said Jaziri, a Muslim cleric from Tunisia who was deported from Canada more than three years ago. Jaziri is believed to have hopped a border fence near Tecate, the Los Angeles Times reported, hiked through the desert and met up with the driver of the BMW at a place known as a rendezvous point for immigrant smugglers. So who is Said Jaziri? ...
Clarence Dupnik: The Anti-Joe Arpaio Sheriff in Arizona
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsUntil Saturday's rampage against Rep. Gabrielle Giffords left her battling for her life and ended the lives of six others, Clarence Dupnik was not the most famous sheriff in Arizona. But after a pull-no-punches news conference in which he linked the shooting in Tucson to a poisonous underlying political atmosphere, the Pima County sheriff may soon become known nationally as the anti-Joe Arpaio. "When you look at unbalanced people, how they respond to the vitriol that comes out of certain mouths about tearing down the government. The anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on in this country ...
Foes of Birthright Citizenship Take Fight to State Legislatures
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The battle over immigration moved to a fresh front today as conservative state lawmakers offered up a new strategy to strip U.S. citizenship from babies born to those in the country illegally. Calling themselves State Legislators for Legal Immigration, officials from five states offered up "model legislation to correct the monumental misapplication of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution." Speaking at a packed news conference at the National Press Club that was disrupted several times by protesters, Republican legislators from Pennsylvania, Georgia, Oklahoma, South ...
Gay Couple Separated by Deportation Fight for Legal Status
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsEvery day before he left for work, Richard Dennis would kiss his partner on the forehead as he slept, knowing each kiss could be their last. That's because Dennis' partner, Jair Izquierdo, was in the United States illegally and the pair's civil union wasn't recognized by the federal government. So the New York couple of more than five years lived their lives in constant fear that Izquierdo, a Peruvian citizen who had overstayed his visa, would be deported. Then, in October, it happened. Izquierdo, 33, was at his job as a cosmetician at a hair salon in New York's East Village on Oct. 20 when ...
The 14th Amendment: It's What's for Dinner
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyWhy's my favorite amendment so nervous? The 14th Amendment has always been on the hot seat. This Reconstruction-era amendment, adopted in 1868, gave blacks a path to citizenship, made the Bill of Rights applicable to states, and desegregated schools in the 1950s. Now, new controversies are brewing. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said in an interview recently published in California Lawyer that the 14th Amendment does not guarantee equal rights to women, gays and lesbians. In 1868, when the 39th Congress was debating and ultimately proposing the 14th Amendment, I don't think anybody ...
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