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Alabama immigration crackdown costing state billions: study

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) – Alabama's crackdown on illegal immigrants, widely seen as the toughest in the United States, could cost the state's economy up to $10.8 billion, according to a new study.

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What would Gingrich’s plan for dealing with illegal immigration look like?

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich became the first Republican candidate for the presidential nomination to explicitly spell out how he would deal with the estimated 11 million people living in the United States without legal immigration status at Tuesday night's debate.

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No Conviction, No Freedom: Immigration Authorities Locked 13,000 In Limbo

WASHINGTON — On a single day this past fall, the United States government held 13,185 people in immigration detention who had not been convicted of a crime, with no plans to charge them with one, according to information The Huffington Post obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. Instead, at a cost of roughly 2 million taxpayer dollars per day, the innocent men and women were …

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New immigration rules allow 14% to stay

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Test of new immigration rules: 14% of immigrants could stay in U.S.

U.S. immigration officials, testing controversial new protocols that give them discretion to “administratively close” immigration cases instead of taking them to court, have recommended that about 14% of the nearly 12,000 cases reviewed thus far be closed, allowing those people to remain in the United States.

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Test of new immigration rules says 14% of immigrants could stay in U.S.

U.S. immigration officials, testing controversial new protocols that give them discretion to “administratively close” immigration cases instead of taking them to court, have recommended that about 14% of the nearly 12,000 cases reviewed thus far be closed, allowing those people to remain in the United States.

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Today's Buzz: Will Romney's immigration stand hurt him?

Mitt Romney¿s rigid position on illegal immigration and embrace of Kris Kobach, former law professor and architect of a law to rid Arizona of illegal aliens, may well cost him the fall election even if helps him win the Republican nomination.

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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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Immigration bungle sees US teenager deported

A Texas teenager who was deported to Colombia after claiming to be an illegal immigrant was reunited with her family in the United States yesterday.The 15-year-old girl is at the centre of an international mystery over how a minor…

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Immigration rules: Obama proposes reducing families’ separation time

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration proposed a rule change Friday to reduce the time that illegal immigrant spouses and children are separated from their American relatives while they try to gain legal status in the United States.

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