Blow to Bush as immigration bill crashes down
Agence France Presse
In a stunning defeat for the bid to grant a path to citizenship for 12 million illegal immigrants, Senators voted 53 to 46 against keeping the bill alive, likely ending congressional action on the divisive issue before 2009.
Bipartisan backers of the measure fell well short of [...]
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If you’ve spent any time surfing the Internet, you’ve seen more than your fair share of banner ads. The advertisement that is constructed from an image that appears all over the net and varies considerably in appearance and subject matter. Banner ads are usually relatively simple pieces of hypertext link code, instructs a Web server [...]
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Zoila Meyer who came here when she was 1 just found out she is only a “legal resident” but not a citizen. When her parents brought her with them from Cuba they always told her she was a U.S. citizen. Some would say she has been living the American dream; marrying her high school sweetheart, [...]
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I have been thinking a lot about those men and women who are serving in our armed forces, especially those who get slapped with reality because they thought were there “make a difference” but in reality they are turned into killing machines and are asked to kill and/or torture innocent people. The ones who left [...]
When it comes to immigration reform, one of the biggest fear many have is that Congress might pass some type of domestic policy that is intended to hurt not only the best interest of the nation, but the interest of an immigrant – legal and undocumented – who are trying to navigate through this country. [...]
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This is the blog of Edmundo "XicanoPwr" Rocha, a social worker, an activist, freelance writer and founder and editor of The Sanctuary. My interests include: immigration reform, critical race theory and it's interaction with equality/inequality and freedom/oppression as they relate to the experiences of people of color in the Americas.
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