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A recently introduced bill could have far-reaching impact on the U.S. sugar industry, including American Crystal Sugar, a farmer-owned cooperative that locked out 1,300 Midwest workers on Aug. 1.
The chairman for Herman Cain’s Iowa effort says the campaign “relied more on the word of farmers than Washington regulators” in deciding to run an ad containing claims the Environmental Protection Agency says are false.
The Iowa Senate will remain under the control of a slim 26-25 Democratic majority when it reconvenes in January 2012.
Senate Republicans have long criticized the Obama administration as lax on immigration enforcement, and their argument was bolstered by news this week that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is dismissing a record-high number of cases against immigrant detainees in Houston.
The ACLU is accusing immigration authorities of disregarding the rights of the mentally ill in a lawsuit filed Wednesday alleging Immigration and Customs Enforcement wrongfully deported a U.S. citizen to Mexico. The man, Mark Lyttle, spoke no Spanish and is actually of Puerto Rican descent, but reportedly caught the attention of ICE when he told [...]
Opponents of SB 1070, Arizona’s much-contested immigration law, got a boost Friday when a federal judge ruled against the state’s efforts to block a lawsuit charging racial discrimination and unlawful search and seizure under the law. The lawsuit was brought by a coalition of groups including Friendly House and the ACLU. Federal judge Susan Bolton [...]
Near the end of August, the number of deaths by border crossers in Pima County, Ariz., was beginning to climb to near-record numbers. Wednesday, NPR reports that the number of deaths by migrants in the Arizona desert has officially surpassed all previous years: 252 bodies of undocumented immigrants have been discovered in the past year. [...]
Latino voters still overwhelmingly identify as Democrats, according to a Pew Hispanic Center study released Tuesday. But many may not turn out to vote in the November elections: Only 51 percent of registered Latino voters said they will vote in the midterms, versus 70 percent of voters overall. This could be bad news for immigration [...]
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a Syracuse University-based organization responsible for much of the non-partisan data analysis on immigration enforcement, is accusing Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials of purposefully withholding information on immigrant detainees. After TRAC requested detailed information on the enforcement process through the Freedom of Information Act, ICE responded by saying much of the [...]
Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman, a longtime supporter of strict immigration enforcement, has made pushing for Arizona-style immigration legislation a central part of his re-election campaign. He argues copycat bills will spring up all over the country when state legislature return next year, telling The New York Times, “Next January I believe in every state in [...]
U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., introduced a comprehensive immigration reform bill Wednesday, including a somewhat controversial provision to extend family-based immigration for same-sex couples. If passed — it’s unclear whether even the reform bill could — the provision could help some of the estimated 24,000 gay and lesbian couples in the U.S. that include at [...]
President Barack Obama chided Republicans this weekend for filibustering the defense authorization bill that included the DREAM Act and other reform-minded measures, such as a repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Obama said he hoped Republicans would “come to their senses” on the DREAM Act after the November elections. Which Republicans may come around? In [...]
Immigrant-rights groups have made a major push for the DREAM Act, with rallies around the country and scores of calls to senators. Now that a Republican filibuster killed chances of the DREAM Act as part of the defense authorization bill, some immigration reform advocates plan to mobilize against candidates who opposed the DREAM Act to [...]
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