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Meet Mansimran: Immigrant teen overcomes bullying


Rand Paul Blocking Funds for Elderly and Disabled Refugees

Disturbing news- GOP and Tea-Party Senator Rand Paul has blocked funds for elderly and disabled refugees. The bill that Senator Paul blocked had even come from a disturbing agreement between Democratic and Republican Senators to offset the costs of the program with fee increases for visa applications, a move that would cause severe hardship for lower income immigrants. (Article Link)


What in God's Name is Going on in Alabama?

What in God's name is going on in Alabama? This past week, a federal judge refused to block several key components of what critics have called the harshest anti-immigrant and anti-undocumented immigrant bill in the country.


National award honors three Arizona winners for immigrant rights

From our Restore Fairness blog-

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Checkpoint Nation? Building Community Across Borders

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From our Restore Fairness blog:

Early one morning, Maria—then nine months pregnant—and her family were stopped by the police for no discernible reason. A special breakfast outing became a nightmare—and at one of the most intimate moments of her life, Maria found a team of immigration agents—not her husband—by her side.


Radio Shack: Diversity in the New World Order

        The Tea Party supporters and likes of Ann Coulter have the facts right: immigrants have been flooding sanctuary cities ever since the fall of the Berlin Wall. However even before then, a separatist frame of mind has proven inefficient, particularly from the business standpoint. What takes some of us a while to get used to is the new diversity which abounds in our everyday lives.


Michelle Bachmann Says Immigration System Worked "Very, Very Well" Pre-1965

Congresswoman and provocoteur extraordinaire Michelle Bachmann recently spoke about how the immigration system worked "very, very well" until the 1965 Immigration and Naturalization Act. Honestly, I do think that the headlines around the blogosphere attributing the line "U.S. Immigration System Worked Very, Very Well Under the Asian Exclusion Act" are somewhat unfair.


What is the Role of Multiculturalism in America?

“At the beginning of the 1960s our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country," said Ms. Merkel at the event in Potsdam, near Berlin. "We kidded ourselves a while. We said: 'They won't stay, [after some time] they will be gone,' but this isn't reality. And of course, the approach [to build] a multicultural [society] and to live side by side and to enjoy each other ... has failed, utterly failed."

-       Andrea Merkel, reported by the Christian Science Monitor on October 17 2010


Administrative Relief for Immigrants is Good... but We Need to do Better

Finally, it appears that President Obama has taken a concrete step towards making our nation’s immigration system more humane.