Moments before a group of eight senators unveiled a sweeping bipartisan immigration overhaul Thursday, a smaller group launched the GOP opposition.
Led by Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the Republican push-back emerged as a muted affair.
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There are few Muslims in the small northeast Ohio town where Karen lives with her Palestinian American husband and their five children.
In a region where Amish and Mennonite women cover themselves, Karen and her 20-year-old daughter, Amanda, find the occasional rude remark about their head scarves more puzzling than annoying.
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SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court Wednesday grappled with whether a California ban on therapy to change a minor’s sexual orientation amounted to a restriction on free speech or mere regulation of a medical treatment.
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WASHINGTON — Hours after a bipartisan group of eight senators introduced a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s immigration system, conservative radio talk show hosts took over two floors of a Capitol Hill hotel on Wednesday and denounced the proposal on the country’s drive-time airwaves as nothing more than a reward for lawbreakers.
WASHINGTON – A sweeping immigration bill that a bipartisan group of eight senators plans to introduce on Tuesday seeks not only to fix chronic problems in the system and bring an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants to the right side of the law. It would also reorient future immigration with the goal of bringing foreigners
The sweeping plan, which includes a 13-year path to citizenship and guest worker programs, takes advantage of the changed political alignment of the U.S.
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Censorship is not civility.
Yet that’s the argument made in this newspaper last Sunday by columnist Tim Rutten. (Killing ‘illegal’ is about civility, not politics.)
Rutten made a spirited defense of The Associated Press’ decision to prohibit their reporters from using the phrase “illegal immigrant” when referring to an individual.
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ORLANDO, Fla. — In the pews of the First Baptist Church of Orlando, where thousands of evangelical Christians gather on Sundays to worship and sing, a change of heart is happening on the once toxic issue of immigration.
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MINNEAPOLIS — Nothing in her upbringing on a remote Indian reservation in northern Minnesota prepared Jean Howard for her introduction to city life during a visit here eight years ago: an outbreak of gunfire, followed by the sight of people scattering.
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WEST PLAINS, Mo. — At 8:30 on a cloudy, frigid morning late last month in this folksy Ozark town, the superintendent of an area school strolled through the glass doors of the local newspaper office to deliver a news release.
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