Education officials in some states are attempting to discriminate against U.S.-born students whose parents are in this country illegally.
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Thousands of illegal immigrants living in Massachusetts can qualify for state resident tuition rates at state colleges, under a policy laid out on Monday by Gov. Deval Patrick — another shift in the fast-changing mosaic of states’ policies toward that population.
Gov. Deval L. Patrick on Monday sent a letter to the state’s Board of Higher Education directing it to extend in-state tuition rates to illegal-immigrant students who obtain work permits through the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/jp/mass-governor-tells-colleges-to-offer-in-state-tuition-to-illegal-immigrants?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Throughout the presidential campaign, pundits zeroed in on Latino voters: why President Obama might lose them, how Mitt Romney could woo them, whether they would even vote this year. In the end, the turnout set records, and Latinos overwhelmingly favored Obama. What never changed was the tendency to discuss Latino
Arcos Restaurant, in the Fells Point neighborhood, was abuzz Tuesday night as the Maryland Dream Act was approved with 59 percent of the vote in a referendum, making Maryland the 13th state with a law granting certain undocumented students access to in-state tuition at state colleges.
Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/Hope-for-StudentsSign-for/135596/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
SOME 70 million immigrants have come to America since the first colonists arrived. The role their labor has played in economic development is widely understood. Much less familiar is the extent to which their remarkable innovations have driven American prosperity.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/02/opinion/immigrants-as-entrepreneurs.html
In the nearly two decades since Californians voted to bar undocumented immigrants from utilizing public schools and hospitals, the state’s electorate has become increasingly tolerant toward people who are in the country illegally, although it remains tough on border security and enforcement, a new USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll shows.
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A decade ago, Charlie Beck watched as William J. Bratton arrived in Los Angeles and began rebuilding a department deeply tarnished by the Rodney King beating, riots and corruption scandals. Bratton made many changes as chief, but Beck was particularly taken by his aggressive effort to rebuild the LAPD’s broken relationship with the African American
Tattoos tell stories, whether on the arm of a Holocaust survivor or a white supremacist.
The faded black number on Ester Bershtel’s left arm testifies to one woman’s strength to escape the horrors of Auschwitz.
Read more in The Orange County Register: http://www.ocregister.com/articles/hate-374986-white-kennedy.html
Chul Soo, a 27-year-old illegal immigrant from South Korea, has lived on the fringes of society in recent years, working off the books at a video game store and a beauty supplies wholesaler in New York City, carrying neither a driver’s license nor credit cards, and having little contact with the government.
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