Poll shows Americans conflicted over immigration debate
Story Highlights 3 out of 4 agree that deporting unauthorized immigrants isn't realisticTwo-thirds say granting undocumented workers legal status would drain government servicesMore than 8 in 10...
View ArticleU.S. Census Bureau News: Profile America Facts for Features...
Download image U.S. Census Bureau Logo. (PRNewsFoto/U.S. Census Bureau) WASHINGTON, June 10, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In June 2005, the U.S. House of Representatives adopted a resolution...
View ArticleYoung US minorities grow to record number
For the first time, America's racial and ethnic minorities make up about half of the under-5 age group, the US government has said. The historic shift, announced on Thursday, shows how young people...
View ArticleLatinos poised to catch up with whites in state's population
Perhaps today or certainly sometime very soon, another baby will be born or a new immigrant will arrive and the number of Latinos in California will equal the state's non-Hispanic white population,...
View ArticleThe benefits of immigration reform
In California, laborers from Mexico and Central America — many of them undocumented — help make it the No. 1 farm state, with over $43 billion in cash receipts in 2011. (Gus Ruelas, Reuters) Related...
View ArticleA Late Night, a Brighter Day
Early Thursday morning, well past midnight, the New York City Council passed landmark legislation -- known as the Community Safety Act -- to establish long-needed independent oversight of the NYPD (an...
View ArticleAs Minority Officials Are Caught Up in Scandals, Some See a Conspiracy
The demise of José Peralta’s campaign for Queens borough president was swift. Connect With NYTMetro Follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook for news and conversation. Enlarge This Image Uli Seit...
View ArticleImmigration activists are targeting GOP lawmakers
Shouting “Stop Deportations Now,” about 50 supporters of comprehensive immigration reform walked from City Hall to U.S. Sen. John Cornyn's downtown office Friday to ask him to help create a path to...
View ArticleThis Account Is Tweeting Every NYPD Stop-and-Frisk
Millions of New Yorkers have been subject to a New York Police Department stop-and-frisk — and one Twitter account is telling their story, 140 characters at a time. The account, @StopAndFrisk, was...
View ArticleThe Evangelical, Latino case for immigration reform
President Barack Obama speaks about immigration reform, Tuesday, June 11, 2013, in the East Room of the White House in Washington.AP President Barack Obama gestures while speaking about immigration...
View ArticleImmigration activists target GOP lawmakers
Shouting slogans such as “Stop Deportations Now,” about 50 supporters of comprehensive immigration reform walked from City Hall to U.S. Sen. John Cornyn's downtown office to ask him to help create a...
View ArticleOur Star-Spangled Banner Waves for All of Us
The racist attacks on a young Mexican-American prodigy who sang the National Anthem didn't occur in a vacuum. Before game three of the recent NBA Finals in San Antonio, Sebastien de la Cruz stepped up...
View ArticleStop-And-Frisk Trial Prompts Justice Department To Endorse Idea For NYPD...
NEW YORK -- The U.S. Justice Department has treaded carefully into the debate over the New York Police Department's stop, question and frisk policy, telling a federal judge that it strongly endorses...
View ArticleCity Council wages war on the NYPD with misguided legislation
The protection of life, limb and property is squarely on the line with the City Council’s move to force the NYPD to apply racial and ethnic yardsticks to arrests. With Speaker Christine Quinn’s...
View ArticleImmigration votes will echo into 2014, 2016 elections
McClatchy Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — The nation’s immigration debate has become an epic struggle between two of the nation’s most potent political forces, the growing, crucial Latino vote and the...
View ArticleMassive Mexican Slavery Operation Underscores Need for Market Consequences...
An infested toilet is seen at a tomato processing plant in Toliman, Jalisco state, Mexico on June 11, 2013. (HECTOR GUERRERO/AFP/Getty Images) Earlier this month, a horrifying story of human rights...
View ArticleACLU Racial Profiling App Allows Users To Report Abuse Under Arizona...
Critics of Arizona’s SB 1070 have found a new way of fighting the controversial law -- technology. On Tuesday, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Arizona released a bilingual mobile phone...
View ArticleStop-And-Frisk Bills' Success Thanks To Bloomberg And Kelly, NYPD Sources Say
By Murray Weiss NEW YORK CITY — Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and Mayor Michael Bloomberg have to accept the lion's share of the blame for being saddled with expected oversight from a new inspector...
View ArticleFederal panel: Neb. city's immigration law legal
A federal appeals panel on Friday upheld an eastern Nebraska city's ban on renting to people who aren't in the U.S. legally, opening the door for the town of Fremont to begin enforcing its law and...
View ArticleAlbany Leaders -- What About Black New Yorkers?
Last week, I read the new national report released by the ACLU that examined marijuana arrests across the country. While we knew there was disparity, the levels reflected in the report were shocking...
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