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Arizona bill would strip citizenship from babies born to non-citizens

As Arizona lawmakers yesterday introduced a bill to deny citizenship to children born in the U.S. to non-citizen parents, it is interesting to note what other states and cities and counties have spent defending similarly unconstitutional laws.

House passes immigrant-youth DREAM Act; Senate to vote Thursday

Wednesday night the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act of 2010, bipartisan legislation that lawmakers...

Colorado Springs paper blasts GOP for proposing Arizona-style immigration law

The Colorado Springs Gazette this week came out with an editorial strongly opposing Arizona-style immigration reform. Republicans may be off to a horrible start....

Lunchtime links: Wealthy Republican lawmakers want tax cuts; Americans want jobs

The Bush tax cuts, which will disproportionately benefit millionaire Washington DC lawmakers in relation to the rest of the nation's population, are a low...

Resurgent GOP to get tough on immigration, but change unlikely

During his campaign for the presidency in 2008, Barack Obama made the now-broken promise to Latino supporters that he would pass comprehensive immigration reform in his first year as president. But in remarks to the press on Wednesday, after Republicans took control of the House and won back several seats in the Senate, talk of immigration reform was noticeably absent.

DREAM Act backers go door to door to blast Buck, boost...

Student DREAM Act backers and immigration reform activists took to the streets over the weekend, knocking on doors to talk Boulder residents into voting...

DREAM Act backers vow to keep trying after GOP filibuster

With Tuesday's failure of the DREAM Act, disappointed students and immigrant rights activists Wednesday vowed to forge ahead in their fight to create a...

Undocumented Colorado youth feel trapped, call for change

BOULDER-- As the immigration debate rages across the nation and heats up in Colorado, undocumented youth here, frustrated by a sense of powerlessness to change their situation, have formed a political advocacy group called VOICE or Voices of Immigrant Children for Education Equality. Here are some of their stories and thoughts on immigration policy reform.

Detainee details time in ICE subfield office ‘black site’

Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokespeople balked at questions posed by the Colorado Independent in January about the roughly nine ICE "substation" holding facilities located throughout the state. They downplayed concerns about rights violations and about detainees disappearing for hours and days unable to be located by loved ones and advocates. Basalt-resident Edgar Niebla was held in one of the substations. He told the Colorado Independent the concerns are justified.

Gallup: Obama seen as ineffective on oil spill and immigration

The old adage that "in politics perception is reality" may be playing out on multiple fronts for the Obama administration as it battles not...
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