Election 2008: What’s At Stake?

A four-year-old waits for word of his mother, arrested in an ICE raid. (AP Photo)
Raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement continue after a sweep netted more than 1,100 suspected illegal immigrants in California last month. On Tuesday, another 300 were arrested in a raid on a poultry processing plant in Greenville, S.C. (video). In a [...]

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Today we watched the stock market plunge as the House voted down Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s financial bail-out package. Things are not looking good for the economy, which in modern times has been the main factor attracting immigrants to this country. So how will the crisis affect immigration?
New census figures that came out earlier this [...]

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Until recently, Richmond, Ca., leaders, including Mayor Gayle McLaughlin, were considering a program to provide illegal immigrants with municipal identification cards. But the Contra Costa County Municipal ID Task Force decided to shelve the proposal, after San Francisco backed down from its plan amid controversy.
San Francisco has lately been under fire for its lax attitude [...]

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Hartford, Conn., has joined New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and hundreds of other cities big and small in declaring that police and city officials cannot inquire about anyone’s immigration status. Mayor Eddie Perez, who had expressed some reluctance about the City Council’s proposal, signed the ordinance on Tuesday.
City Councilman Luis Cotto, quoted in [...]

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