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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Ahead of Wednesday’s first presidential debate, Mitt Romney has said that he would not repeal President Obama’s executive order granting a two-year hold on deportation for many young illegal immigrants, The Denver Post reports.
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Gov. Jerry Brown of California dropped the ball on Sunday when he vetoed the Trust Act, a bill aimed at keeping harmless immigrants out of the deportation dragnet — not out of misguided compassion, but to bolster public safety. The police in immigrant communities depend on the cooperation of witnesses and victims; when local officers
1:33AM EST October 1. 2012 – If illegal immigrants brought to the U.S. as children were given legal status, their improved access to college and better jobs would add $329 billion and 1.4 million jobs to the nation’s economy over two decades, according to a report set for release today.
GATESVILLE, Tex. — In January, Rosa Jimenez, an illegal Mexican immigrant, will have spent 10 years in prison in the bleak scrublands of Central Texas for a crime she says she did not commit: forcing a wad of paper towels down the throat of a toddler in her care, making him choke and ultimately die.
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SAN JOSE — When customers enter Mi Pueblo Food Center to do their weekly shopping, the goal is to make them feel at home.
Each of the grocery chain’s 21 outlets, which are scattered throughout the Bay Area, Monterey Bay region and Central Valley, is styled to emulate a distinct Mexican region. Boisterous rancheras stream from
Officials of the Maricopa County Community College District, in Arizona, said on Wednesday that young illegal immigrants who obtained work permits under the terms of the Obama administration’s deferred-action program would be allowed to use those documents to prove their state residency, thus giving them access to lower in-state tuition rates.
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Los Angeles officials are considering a plan to turn the library card into a form of identification that the city’s large illegal immigrant population could use to open bank accounts and access an array of city services….
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Several states with financial difficulties have moved quietly in recent years to reduce spending on college education by denying low tuition rates and financial aid to American citizens who are the children of illegal immigrants.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/06/us/florida-and-new-jersey-courts-aid-illegal-immigrants-college-bound-children.html?ref=education
Students at Florida’s public colleges and universities who are United States citizens or legal residents cannot be charged out-of-state tuition simply because their parents are in the country illegally, a federal judge has ruled.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/05/us/florida-judge-rules-against-tuition-inequality.html?_r=1&src=rechp