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Calif. immigration courts allowing more to stay in U.S.

Sam Pearson Mike Blake/Reuters A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer and his dog patrol vehicles waiting to enter the U.S. at the border crossing in San Ysidro

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Dream Act: California embraces anti-Arizona role on illegal immigration

The California Senate passed its version of the Dream Act this week, setting itself up as a leader among states addressing illegal immigration with greater sympathy.

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All-Star game becomes part of immigration fight

Sports and politics became intertwined when civil rights activists targeted one of the biggest sporting events in the world as they fought Arizona’s refusal to observe the Dr. Martin Luther King holiday

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Immigration program opt-out OKd by Assembly

The California Assembly approved a bill Thursday to allow counties to opt out of a federal program to combat illegal immigration that opponents say rips families apart, leads to racial profiling and erodes trust between…

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Immigration crackdown raises identity-theft risk

In 2008, California tax authorities sent Miguel Chavez a letter saying he failed to file a return on income earned at Ashley Furniture Industries.

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Immigration checks for locals over?

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California lawmakers are the latest to weigh joining efforts in other states to gain control over a controversial national program that automatically checks the immigration status of those arrested.

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Immigration groups to step up pressure on Obama for reforms

A coalition of community and faith-based pro-immigration groups who helped elect President Obama in 2008 will begin a series of town-hall meetings and news conferences Tuesday in California to tell the president that the nations immigration system is “broken” and to remind him of campaign pledges he made to fix …

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Obama urges push for immigration reform

President Barack Obama held talks Tuesday with former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, among others, on US immigration reform, and urged a fresh push for legislation.

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States can push D.C. on immigration

A number of states have grown impatient with Washington’s dickering and passed their own immigration law reforms. This writer asks: What if California, New York and Illinois — states likely to pass liberal, not conservative, immigration measures — were to get in on the act?

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Tea Party rallies for Arizona-style immigration law at the Capitol

An Arizona-like law to combat illegal immigration has a snowball’s chance in Phoenix of passing the California Legislature, but freshman Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, R-Twin Peaks (San Bernardino County) is giving it a shot….

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