Election 2008: What’s At Stake?

Long Island-based Newsday has been following the Marcelo Lucero murder in great detail, even sending a reporter to Ecuador to interview his friends and family. But some see coverage of this case, which involves a group of American youths who allegedly attacked and killed an immigrant, as too positive about immigration.
One Newsday reporter was thrown [...]

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Seven Long Island teenagers have been charged with hate crimes for the murder of an Ecuadorian immigrant earlier this month. The high school students were indicted today for an attack that ended with one of them stabbing Marcelo Lucero.
In a case that tops last summer’s murder of Mexican immigrant Luis Ramirez in Shenandoah, Pa., [...]

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Mexico is setting up a call center in Tuscon, Ariz., to help Mexican citizens who run into immigration problems. Mexican officials say the center is designed to help illegal workers, and that it was prompted by an increase in anti-immigrant sentiment in Arizona. The center, which will have a toll-free number and be staffed 24 [...]

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North Carolina Senate: Once comfortable Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R) is fighting for her political life against Democrat Kay Hagan, whom most polls show is ahead. North Carolina has seen an influx on immigrants since Dole was last up for reelection. If Hagan wins by a narrow margin, they will have made a difference.
Arizona State Senate, [...]

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GOP VP candidate Sarah Palin discussed a guest worker program with apple farmers in Pennsylvania on Friday. It was the first time she mentioned immigration at a campaign stop. Palin touted John McCain’s support of comprehensive immigration reform.

The Feds are charging the former CEO of Agriprocessors, the company raided by ICE in one of [...]

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Germans board a ship for the United States. (Library of Congress)
Those who oppose modern immigration often point to their own ancestors, who came from Europe in the 19th or early 20th century, as examples of immigration done right. Those immigrants came here legally, they say. They wanted to become Americans, and they learned English and [...]

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Abandoned coal breakers are common features of Northeast Pennsylvania’s broken landscape. (Photo by Amy Crawford)
While national politicians are treating immigration as a non-issue, there are still places where it has the power to rile up a crowd. It makes sense in Arizona—that state borders Mexico—but immigration is also surprisingly hot in Pennsylvania.
News 21 has covered [...]

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In 2004, Arizona voters passed Proposition 200, a measure designed to prevent alleged voter fraud by illegal immigrants. Instead, as News 21 documented, Prop 200 has disenfranchised thousands of legitimate voters. In 2006, voters overwhelmingly approved four initiatives against illegal immigrants, including measures denying them bail and punitive damages in civil count cases. Now, the [...]

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Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Lathan Watts (City of Lewisville)

The city council of Lewisville, Tex., last week rejected a measure to make English the only language allowed on government documents.
Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Lathan Watts (R) had put the measure on the council’s agenda, citing the need to save money on translating documents into many different [...]

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Sen. John McCain is well-known for his progressive position on immigration reform—a position that has put him at odds with many in his home state. Now, a recent Time magazine piece looks at how the “conservative” revolt against the Republican presidential candidate in Arizona (and to a lesser extent nationwide) reveals the state GOP’s [...]

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