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Barack Obama On Immigration In 2012: Not So Different From 2011

WASHINGTON — When President Obama's immigration policy staffers gathered to help pen the State of the Union Address passage dedicated to their issue, they didn't have much to work with. Comprehensive immigration reform never came close, and the Dream Act failed. What's a speechwriter to do?

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IMMIGRATION: Same Words, No Progress

Last year, President Obama gave lip service to immigration in his State of the Union address.

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Mitt Romney Immigration: What is Self-Deportation?

Mitt Romney elaborated on his immigration policies during Monday night's debate in Florida by calling for a system of “self-deportation,” embracing a concept that was tested and subsequently discarded under President George W. Bush.

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Romney immigration stance is magnified in Florida

Mitt Romney's promise to veto a measure that would create a path to citizenship for some illegal immigrants threatens to turn off Hispanic voters, whose support could be critical in a general election match-up against President Barack Obama.

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Preckwinkle fires back, defends jail policy to U.S. immigration chief

In a strongly-worded letter to the nation’s immigration chief, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle says the controversial new jail policy she championed doesn’t put public safety at risk and didn’t pave the way for a suspect in a deadly drunken driving crash — believed to be living in the U.S. illegally — to bond out of jail and disappear.In the letter sent Thursday, Preckwinkle also …

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Union fight slows immigration reform

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 (UPI) — President Obama's call for a review of pending immigration cases in the United States and reform the deportation process has run up against union resistance.

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Former Bush official warns against ‘ugly’ immigration rhetoric

Former Bush official warns against ‘ugly’ immigration rhetoric By david montero The Salt Lake Tribune Published Jan 12, 2012 10:38PM MDT A former official in President George W. Bush’s administration said the immigration debate has been co-opted by zero-population control groups touting a brand of nationalism that’s damaging the Republican Party with Latinos. Alfonso Aguilar, the former chief of …

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Immigration officials warn Preckwinkle

The nation's top immigration official has written a stern warning to Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle about her policy that allowed Saul Chavez to skip bail and run out on felony charges.

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Sonoma County immigration advocates welcome Obama proposal

Sonoma county immigration advocates welcomed the news Friday that President Barack Obama plans to ease rules that force the separation of some immigrant families.

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Obama’s imperial power grab on immigration

The Obama administration has taken federal-state relations to a new low in its quest for an unprecedented expansion of presidential power.

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