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immigration
<p><strong>La Opinión</strong></p>
<p> Latino voters are no strangers to the plight of undocumented immigrants living in the United States.</p>
First Person:
By Alberto Ledesma
New America Media
Sofia and I had been making that turn since we had moved to Castro Valley. In those five years, the protesters at the corner of Castro Valley Boulevard and Redwood Road had become a constant example of the way politics worked in the United States. Each time, after I picked her up from abuelita’s house, we waited for the light to turn while she stared at the protesters.
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<p> Si no fuera porque lo ocurrido al mexicano Antonio Hernández Carranza pertenece a la cruda realidad, su caso causaría hilaridad, dado que parece extraído de la ficción de una tragedia griega de Aristófanes o de los cuentos de ribetes truculentos de Borges o García Márquez.</p>
<p><strong>New America Media</strong></p>
<p> Gov. Jan Brewer plans to petition the U.S. Supreme Court to lift a federal court’s preliminary injunction that blocked major portions of a controversial state immigration law from going into effect. But whether the nation’s highest tribunal will consider ruling on SB 1070 is a whole other story, according to legal experts.</p>
Guest Editorial:
By Rinku Sen
Commentary:
By: Jose Apolinar Olivera
Few issues spark as much anger and propaganda as the issue of immigration reform. Unlike many other issues, views on immigration reform do not fall neatly into party lines or even racial lines.
Regardless of one’s view on the issue, we can agree that the debate around immigration reform should be based on fact, not fiction.
<p><strong>Frontera NorteSur</strong></p>
<p> Five years ago, hundreds of thousands and perhaps millions of people marched in big cities and small towns across the US demanding justice for the nation’s estimated 12 million undocumented residents. Hitting a high point with work stoppages on May Day 2006, the pro-immigrant protest was the largest social movement in the US since the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War years.</p>