In Victory for Obama, House Backs Domestic Violence Law - NYTimes.com

In Victory for Obama, House Backs Domestic Violence Law - NYTimes.com: "WASHINGTON — The House voted on Thursday to pass the Senate’s bipartisan reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, in a big victory for President Obama and Democrats in Congress. The legislation passed on a vote of 286 to 138, with 199 Democrats joining 87 Republicans to push the reauthorization of the landmark 1994 law, which assists victims of domestic and sexual violence, across the finish line."

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The For-Profit Immigration Imprisonment Racket

The For-Profit Immigration Imprisonment Racket | Politics News | Rolling Stone: "According to the Columbia Journalism Review, Senators John McCain (R-Arizona) and Marco Rubio (R-Florida) are top recipients of CCA and GEO Group funds, respectively, having received $32,146 and $27,300 in donations."

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Immigration Reform 2013: Obama and McCain To Meet Tuesday To Talk About Immigration Bill : Politics : Latinos Post

Immigration Reform 2013: Obama and McCain To Meet Tuesday To Talk About Immigration Bill : Politics : Latinos Post: "McCain, who is part of the "Gang of Eight" bipartisan U.S. Senate group working on a bill to bring comprehensive immigration reform, will meet Tuesday with President Obama, whom he ran against in the 2008 U.S. presidential elections."

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The Truth about CIR

AILA Leadership Blog: "Comprehensive Immigration Reform: This has not happened yet, and it is going to be months before we have any idea of whether it will happen.  We don’t know what this law, if passed, will look like and who it will help.  No one should pay a deposit for work regarding a law that does not yet and may never exist.  Don’t let someone scam your friends, family, or members of your community." 

"Reforma Integral de Inmigración: Esto no ha sucedido todavía, y va a ser meses antes de que tengamos alguna idea de si va a suceder No sabemos lo que esta ley, si se aprueba, se verá como y quien lo ayudará.. Nadie debe pagar un depósito para el trabajo con respecto a una ley que no lo hace todo y nunca puede existir. no dejes que alguien estafa a sus amigos, familia, o miembros de su comunidad "



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The truth about Provisional (stateside) Waivers

AILA Leadership Blog: "Provisional (Stateside) Waivers: This is not a legalization program but is instead a process that allows some individuals who are immediate relatives (certain spouses, children and parents of U.S. citizens) to apply for a provisional unlawful presence waiver while they are waiting in the United States.  Currently the regulation only applies to a narrow group of people and does not go into effect until March 4, 2013.  Therefore, if you may think you or a relative qualifies you should do some research now, before going further with any applications."

"Provisionales (Stateside) Exenciones: Este no es un programa de legalización sino que es un proceso que permite a algunas personas que son familiares directos (cónyuges, hijos y algunos padres de ciudadanos estadounidenses) para solicitar una exención presencia ilegal provisional mientras esperan en los Estados Unidos. actualmente, la regulación sólo se aplica a un reducido grupo de personas y no entrarán en vigor al 4 de marzo de 2013. Por lo tanto, si usted puede pensar que usted o un familiar califica usted debe hacer algunas investigaciones ahora, antes de seguir adelante con cualquier aplicaciones ".




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The Truth about DACA

AILA Leadership Blog: "Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA): This allows some qualified individuals to apply for a work permit based on their physical presence in the United States, age and other factors.  IMPORTANT: There is no deadline for filing for DACA, as some have been hearing.  Also, there is no official processing time being provided by the Department of Homeland Security.  However, many applications are now taking close to six months to process."

"La acción diferida para la Infancia (Llegadas DACA): Esto permite que algunos individuos calificados para solicitar un permiso de trabajo en función de su presencia física en los Estados Unidos, la edad y otros factores importantes:. No hay fecha límite para la presentación de DACA, como algunos han audiencia sido. Además, no hay tiempo de tramitación oficial proporcionados por el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional. sin embargo, muchas aplicaciones se están llevando a cerca de seis meses para procesar. "

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Behind-the-scenes deal pushes immigration reform closer to reality - CSMonitor.com

Behind-the-scenes deal pushes immigration reform closer to reality - CSMonitor.com: "A compromise agreement announced Thursday between the nation’s largest labor union and the top advocate for American business underscores the enormous momentum now behind immigration reform."

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Report: ICE detained 800 U.S. citizens in 4 years

Report: ICE detained 800 U.S. citizens in 4 years: "According to the report from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse out of Syracuse University known as TRAC, which gathers data on government activities, these detainers ended up including over 800 American citizens and over 28,000 legal permanent residents."

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Dispensing with a new 'dagger' against immigration reform | Fox News

"According to the independent National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP), immigrants will contribute $611 billion to the Social Security system over the next 75 years. Indeed, immigrants are a key force in keeping the Social Security trust fund solvent for older Americans who are at or near retirement. NFAP also found that halting all immigration into the United Size would explode the size of the Social Security deficit by at least 31 percent over 50 years.

Jeffrey S. Passel and Michael E. Fix, two respected demographers, recently compared the welfare participation rates of legal immigrants to native-born American citizens. Controlling for income, they found that immigrants had nearly identical -- and in some cases lower -- participation rates than citizens in the three big social programs: welfare, food stamps, and Medicaid. They found that 32 percent of natural-born citizen families at the 200 percent poverty line received food stamps, compared to only 22 percent of immigrant families.

Their findings complement those of another pair of demographers, James P. Smith and Barry Edmonston, for example, who found last year that immigrants actually receive less in Social Security and Medicare benefits than do native-born American citizens."

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/02/19/dispensing-with-new-dagger-against-immigration-reform/#ixzz2LM7w7Lxx

Eugene Robinson: Obama’s immigration plan may be a decoy - The Washington Post

Eugene Robinson: Obama’s immigration plan may be a decoy - The Washington Post: "Here’s the state of play: In the November election, Obama carried both the nation’s largest minority — Hispanics — and its fastest-growing minority — Asian Americans — by nearly 3-to-1.  Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants, has been trying to explain to his party that immigration is a “threshold” issue for communities with fresh memories of arrival. Mitt Romney’s notion of reform, which he summed up as “self-deportation,” communicated hostility rather than empathy. Voters returned the favor."

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TexMessage: Joaquin Castro says Obama and Congress can collaborate on immigration reform despite leak | Texas on the Potomac | a Chron.com blog

"Democratic Rep.  Joaquin Castro on Sunday told George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week” it’s essential for both the executive and legislative branches to work together on a final bill, which he said, is still possible."

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Asian American priorities for immigration reform - The Hill's Congress Blog

Asian American priorities for immigration reform - The Hill's Congress Blog: "Moving forward, it is crucial that we also recognize the impact of our broken immigration system on Asian Pacific Americans, a community that is often overlooked in this debate."

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Immigration reform: Congress, Obama, and public are not so far apart - CSMonitor.com

"Both the bipartisan Senate plan and President Obama's proposal on immigration reform – which he's expected to mention in his State of the Union address tonight – show how Republican and Democrats aren’t as far apart on policy as politics might have us believe."

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Mike Coffman: Immigration Reform Should Give Dreamers Path To Citizenship

"Rep. Mike Coffman (R-Colo.) said on Sunday that he is not sure whether he would vote to allow eventual citizenship for the undocumented population as a whole, but would get behind a pathway for young unauthorized immigrants -- often called Dreamers, after the Dream Act -- that entered the United States as children, according to the Denver Post."

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Tech sector hopeful on immigration reform - Michelle Quinn - POLITICO.com

 "Among tech executives, “there is a quiet understanding that this is the beginning of the final effort and this is the last time they will try,” said Scott Corley, executive director of the Compete America coalition. “If it doesn’t work, they will make other hiring plans.”"

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Cantor: Immigration Reform Should Start with the Children - By Patrick Brennan - The Corner - National Review Online

 "Cantor said, “It is time to provide an opportunity for legal residence and citizenship for those who were brought to this country as children and who know no other home.” "

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Condoleezza Rice: Immigration Reform Group Will Discuss Path To Citizenship

 WOW, a new bipartisan group led by GOP members, Condoleezza Rice and Haley Barbour, and NDP members, Henry Cisneros and Ed Rendell" are working together on immigration reform.

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Gutierrez: First Judiciary Committee Immigration Hearing of 113th Congress

Gutierrez talks immigration, politics, citizenship & families with Andre...

Obama On Immigration Reform: Politics Not Easy, But 'Now Is The Time'

"I am heartened to see Republicans and Democrats starting to be in a serious conversation about getting this done," President Obama said. "Now is the time."

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How Marco Rubio’s Mom Influenced Him on Immigration Reform - ABC News

Marco listen to your Mother!!!

Rubio's mother reminded her son, (Senator Marco Rubio) that immigrants are: “They’re human beings just like us, and they came for the same reasons we came. To work. To improve their lives. So please, don’t mess with them,” Oriales Gracia Rubio said.

Kudos, to another Wise Latina!

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Jonathan_Miller: Why Our Economy Demands Immigration Reform

Did you know this: "No one can doubt that we are a nation whose foundation was built by immigrants. But did you know that more than 40 percent of today's Fortune 500 companies were founded by an immigrant, or a child of an immigrant? Or that more than 75 percent of all the patents received by the top ten U.S. universities in 2011 had an immigrant inventor?"

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Send a letter to your senators

Please send a letter to your senators and ask them to support this push for immigration reform.

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