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inmigrants
Undocumented immigrants paid nearly $12 billion in taxes, study claims
A new study shows that undocumented immigrants paid an average state and local tax rate of 8 percent in 2012, higher than the 5.4 percent paid by the top 1 percent of taxpayers
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Fewer Latinos will speak Spanish, more non-Latinos will, report says
"On the one hand, the number of Spanish speakers is projected to grow to about 40 million by 2020 (from 37 million in 2011.) This reflects Hispanic population growth and a large number…
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Immigrant mothers held in US Detention Centers on hunger strike
The women say they are asylum seekers and have proved that they face violence if they are returned to Central America, yet they remain detained.
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Republicans play games with homeland security
How far are Republicans willing to go just to stick it to immigrants? The GOP provided a resounding answer last week.
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US green cards go to the few: one-third of Latin Americans rejected, 90% of Asians accepted
Asians and Canadians enjoy a nearly 90% approval rate for green cards as opposed to Latin Americans’ 66.8%, though rules says immigrants’ nationality shouldn’t matter.
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Racist anti-immigrant cartoons from the turn of the 20th century
There was a time in America when the Irish were characterized as apes, Italians as street filth, and Chinese as parasitic locusts.
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Poisoning the well
The idea that Obama's action somehow poisoned the well is preposterous. The fact is that the GOP-run House has turned down every immigration reform proposal brought before it.
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Bureaucratic nightmare on immigration?
The troubled immigration system braces for the onslaught of 5 million applications.
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