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On Immigration, Rhetoric on Need to 'Secure the Border' Doesn't Match Reality

The candidates vying for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination agree that the first imperative is to halt the flow of illegal immigration across the U.S.-Mexico border. But the relentless focus on the border obscures the fact that the rate of cross-border migrations is decreasing.

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Immigration debate of 2011 to extend into new year

Throughout the year, the immigration debate was framed by two sometimes- conflicting worries. One worry was a simple fact: millions have crossed the border illegally. The other worry: those millions who crossed the border are human beings with families.

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Religion Leaders See Immigration as `God’s Call’

A Unitarian church in New Mexico sends supplies to the border for recent deportees.

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Religion leaders see immigration as ‘God’s call’

A Unitarian church in New Mexico sends supplies to the border for recent deportees. A coalition of church leaders gathers under a statue of colonial America religious figure Anne Hutchinson at the Massachusetts Statehouse to denounce immigration checks by police

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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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Bachmann Goes After Perry on Immigration and Pledges Border Fence

Representative Michele Bachmann gave a speech Saturday about the burdens illegal immigration places on American taxpayers and signed a pledge to build a “secure double fence” the border with Mexico.

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The Caucus: Bachmann Goes After Perry on Immigration, Pledges Border Fence

Representative Michele Bachmann gave a speech Saturday about the burdens illegal immigration places on American tax-payers and signed a pledge to build a “secure double fence” the border with Mexico.

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Is Mexico’s ‘secret economic boom’ killing illegal immigration?

New research suggests incomes and quality of life are improving south of the border — discouraging Mexicans from illegally sneaking into the U.S.

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Immigration holdup may force firm to move south

One of the country’s oldest companies, a 133-year-old firm that makes high-security products, is considering moving south of the border because of a dispute with Immigration Canada.

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Exhausted Texas Sheriffs Say No to Arizona-Style Immigration Law

Texas sheriffs along the border oppose Arizona-style immigration measures to be considered by Texas’ Legislature, saying they’re understaffed, underfunded and don’t think the law would be workable.

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