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For the first time, the law will recognize that, under certain circumstances, they may qualify for asylum in the United States.
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Public education is becoming big business as bankers, hedge fund managers and private equity investors are entering what they consider to be an “emerging market.”
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The Tampa Bay Times reports this evening that two, top staff members for Senator Marco Rubio (FL) and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (FL-27) took junkets to China that were financed by…
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The U.S. “is sharing intelligence about jihadist deployments with Damascus through Iraqi and Russian channels,” the Agence France-Presse reports today, citing one source as saying: ”The…
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What's beyond question is that the support of New Yorkers, who elected De Blasio believing his promises of equal treatment for all, will depend to a great degree -- after the Garner…
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Immigrant rights advocates say the National Guard is not trained to deal with immigrants or minors, and the border should not be militarized. The first units of the National Guard…
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Many Americans did not necessarily link national progress with geographic expansion. So it's possible to conceive of a lesser America by positing the absence of the Mexican War.
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Photo series captures the physical violence suffered by immigrants trying to make it across the border
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Exclusive: Cornel West talks Ferguson, Hillary, MSNBC -- and unloads on the failed promise of Barack Obama
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Ideological arguments about whether taxes are too high or too low miss the crucial question of who ends up bearing how much of the burden of financing our public sector.
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