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Immigration reform bill heads to full Senate
WASHINGTON — A sweeping bipartisan plan to overhaul the nation’s immigration system headed to the Senate floor after a key committee approved it Tuesday, but not before tilting the bill to the political right with amendments designed to...
Tags: Mitch McConnell, Patrick Leahy, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Orrin Hatch, Career and Workplace
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Immigration: A wider better welcome mat
As an immigrant and an engineer, I know the magnetic pull that the United States exerts on anyone who dreams of a career in science. From the time I watched NASA technicians on television during the first lunar landing in 1969, I resolved to get the...
Tags: Medical Research, University of California, Irvine, Same-Sex Marriage, Science and Technology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Arizona's limits on immigrant driver's licenses upheld
TUCSON — Young people granted immigration relief and work permits under a new Obama administration program still won't be able to obtain driver's licenses in Arizona, a federal judge has ruled. Although the decision is a win for Republican Gov....
Tags: Labor Legislation, American Civil Liberties Union, Regional Authority, Immigration, Deportation
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Ruben Barrales, party guy
When President Obama told students in Mexico that without the support of U.S. Latinos he would not be president, he wasn't talking about the GOP's Ruben Barrales. But Barrales gets the message. He is the son of immigrants, and San Mateo County's first...
Tags: Building Material, Mitt Romney, George W. Bush, Social Issues, Same-Sex Marriage
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Laurene Powell Jobs gives first interview since Steve Jobs' death
Laurene Powell Jobs is giving her first public interview on Friday since the death of her husband, Steve Jobs. Jobs will appear on NBC's Rock Center with Brian Williams to promote a new documentary called "The Dream is Now" that will air this weekend...
Tags: Steve Jobs, MSNBC (tv network)
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Don Young's racist slur not good for GOP's minority outreach
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a Republican elected official who casually uses the racist term “wetbacks” during a radio interview is a dunderhead of the first magnitude. “My father had a ranch; we used to have 50-60...
Tags: George W. Bush, Halloween, Social Issues, Los Angeles Times Journalists, Immigration
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Another side of illegal immigration
Denise Panaligan, a UCLA sophomore, didn't tell her mother where she was headed Wednesday morning. She knew that if she told the truth, her mother would worry. Panaligan, in blue jeans and white T-shirt, boarded a bus and traveled to Pershing...
Tags: University of California, Irvine, South Korea, Immigration, Illegal Immigrants, Barack Obama
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Villaraigosa endorses former Assemblyman Cedillo in council race
L.A. NOWL.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa endorsed Gil Cedillo for a seat on the City Council, citing a longtime relationship with the former state Assemblyman and praising what he said was a dedication to social justice.... -
Republicans rediscover the virtues of immigration reform
In my Sunday column, I suggested that Republicans in Congress have begun to evolve in a more pragmatic, less ideological direction after their losses in last year’s election. As evidence, I noted that House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) backed...
Tags: Mitt Romney, John McCain, Paul Ryan, Immigration, Illegal Immigrants
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Disarm the filibuster
On Jan. 3, there's a chance that the U.S. Senate will return to some semblance of a functioning legislative body. That day a majority of senators could vote to eliminate Rule XXII, which authorizes the notorious filibuster. Article 1, Section 6 of the...
Tags: Hank Johnson, Keith Ellison, Politics, U.S. Senate, Elections
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Letters: What good is 'posthumous citizenship'?
Re "Family of a fallen Marine sees his citizenship dream fulfilled," Dec. 7 The whole idea of "posthumous citizenship" is almost Dickensian in its "pound-of-flesh" approach. The cynic in me sees this as a warm and fuzzy human interest story to make...
Tags: Same-Sex Marriage
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