President Obama’s announcement last month of a new policy that would allow most students who lack the documentation to reside legally in the United States to avoid deportation was the latest high-profile development regarding what is by most accounts a very small segment of the college population.
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The Supreme Court rejected the foundation of Arizona’s cold-blooded immigration law and the indefensible notion the state can have its own foreign policy. In a 5-to-3 decision, the court blocked three of four provisions in the statute and gave a significant, though incomplete, victory to the federal government.
NEW YORK — For millions of Latinos who sought to get rid of Arizona’s infamous and draconian immigration law, the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on Monday brought some relief — but not a full reprieve.
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EDINBURGH — It has been described as “the ultimate brain spa,” and indeed, my multitasking, working-mother brain feasted on its first TED conference last week. Among intriguing facts learned:
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Gordon Parks’s portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Thornton Sr., an older black couple in their Mobile, Ala., home in 1956, appears to have little in common with the images we have come to associate with civil rights photography.
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday delivered a split decision on Arizona’s tough 2010 immigration law, upholding its most hotly debated provision but blocking others on the grounds that they interfered with the federal government’s role in setting immigration policy.
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Both sides celebrate and criticize the decision rejecting parts of Arizona’s law, but it leaves Romney in a tighter spot than Obama.
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Charter schools in most states continue to enroll proportionately fewer students with disabilities than traditional public schools, a new government report shows.
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected much of Arizona’s tough new immigration law but allowed one key provision to stand, saying federal law did not pre-empt the state’s instruction to its police to check the immigration status of people they detain.
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court struck down most of Arizona’s strict law targeting illegal immigrants, but said Arizona’s police can stop, question and briefly detain immigrants if they have reason to believe they are in the country illegally.
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