President Obama picks Nevada to kick off his overhaul effort. Some of his specifics are more liberal than those being worked on in Congress, but he emphasizes the similarities.
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The bipartisan group’s proposal would grant legal status to most of the country’s estimated 11 million illegal immigrants.
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Activists in a student-led immigrant-rights group have unveiled a spinoff Web site modeled on the Common Application that aims to pressure the widely used admissions portal to include “undocumented American” in its demographic questions and “undocumented status” in its nondiscrimination clause.
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The $1-million donation from the Haas Fund will provide $4,000 to $6,000 a year to about 100 students, officials say.
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With no immigration papers and few job prospects, Martín López graduated from high school in 2009 and went to work as a day laborer. From the rooftops of north Georgia, he watched other people’s lives unfold, while his own options seemed only to constrict. He felt invisible, angry, and stuck.
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When President Barack Obama announced that he would direct the Department of Homeland Security to grant deferred deportation and a work permit for two years to undocumented immigrant youth who meet certain criteria, he renewed hope for a better future for a million young people.
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Attorney general says the U.S. program, intended to deport illegal immigrants convicted of serious crimes, had swept up too many non-criminals.
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The suit targets an executive order by Gov. Jan Brewer denying the licenses to young immigrants who received work permits under a new Obama administration program.
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As the GOP uses the lame-duck session to offer small changes to immigration laws, a bipartisan group in the House is preparing to reconvene to take up larger reforms.
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The $20-million New Americans Campaign will hold workshops to help permanent residents in eight U.S. cities fill out applications and prepare for exams.
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