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Jose Antonio Vargas-- I'm not an 'alien'
By JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS, l.a. times op-ed ~ august 13, 2015 http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0814-vargas-illegal-alien-20150813-story.html "RESIDENT ALIEN." Those two words, in all caps, adorn the plastic-covered green card that my grandfather, a naturalized U.S. ... -
California gives immigrants here illegally unprecedented rights, benefits, protections
By MELANIE MASON, l.a times ~ august 11, 2015 It started with in-state tuition. Then came driver's licenses, new rules designed to limit deportations and state-funded healthcare for children. And on ... -
Immigration crackdown splits GOP
A rift has opened up in the party around the question of mandatory minimums. By Seung Min Kim, POLITICO ~ August 11, 2015 http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/immigration-gop-rift-mandatory-minimum-senate-cruz-121231.html#ixzz3iWcvO510 Ted Cruz and other Senate Republicans ... -
Border fences are succeeding -- in keeping migrants in U.S.
By WAYNE A. CORNELIUS, l.a. times op-ed ~ august 10, 2015 http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0810-cornelius-border-security-20150810-story.html In the first Republican presidential debate, Donald Trump swore he'd build a wall to keep out Mexican migrants and ... -
Judge orders release of immigrant children, mothers from detention centers
By CINDY CARCAMO, l.a. times july 25, 2015 A federal judge has ruled that hundreds of immigrant women and children held in detention facilities must be released as soon as possible ... -
President Obama: Publish the DAPA Regulation ! (And Why He Won't)
By Charles Kuck, ILW.com ~ July 1, 2015 We found out this week that the "new" panel that will hear the actual DAPA appeal in the 5th Circuit Court of ... -
Border Patrol needs to crack down on internal corruption
A Border Patrol agent along the Mexico border near McAllen, Texas, in November. (Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times) By BRIAN BENNETTcontact the reporter S. Customs and Border Protection Gil Kerlikowske ... -
Orphaned in Mexico, siblings triumph in graduating from SoCal universities
Sophy Amel Peralta and her brother Allen Amel Peralta, left, graduated Saturday from Cal State L.A. and UC Irvine because of help the received from Brian Fonteyn. The siblings plan ... -
Against the odds, chemistry grad finds a path out of poverty
By Nicole Freeling, UC Newsroom ~ Thursday, June 11, 2015 http://universityofcalifornia.edu/news/against-odds-chemistry-grad-finds-path-out-poverty By the time he was 6, Rene Amel Peralta was already working full time in construction and odds jobs ... -
L.A. County's kinder, gentler, totally immoral deportation scheme
A. County ends its partnership with ICE for deporting inmates, replaces it with equally heartless one By TED RALL, l.a. times ~ may 18, 2015 On Tuesday the Los Angeles County ...