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Report: ICE Detained 800 U.S. Citizens in 4 Years

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Report: ICE Detained 800 U.S. Citizens in 4 Years

By Kamren Curiel | 02/21/2013 - 14:13 | 0 Comments

In the midst of President Obama's highly anticipated immigration reform proposal—a leaked version raised GOP concerns for reportedly not tying a pathway to citizenship to new border security measures—a new report found that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained nearly 1 million people between 2008 and 2012. Of those...

President Barack Obama speaks about immigration reform in Las Vegas

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President Obama Says Immigration Reform is Likely in 6 Months, Speaks Spanish

By Kamren Curiel | 01/31/2013 - 14:27 | 0 Comments

On the heels of his highly anticipated immigration speech at Del Sol High School in Las Vegas, Nevada, President Obama spoke to two of the country's leading Spanish-language television networks about his immediate plan for immigration reform.

In interview with Telemundo's Jose Diaz-Balart, Obama said he's hopeful an...

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Deportations Not Slowing, Despite U.S. Backlog

By Samantha Leal | 06/08/2012 - 11:56 | 0 Comments

Deportations have not slowed down in the U.S., despite seven months of reviews by the Obama administration, reports The New York Times. This continuance has obviously disappointed many immigrants, many...

WATCH: Rep. Luis Gutierrez Arrested for Protesting Deportations

WATCH: Rep. Luis Gutierrez Arrested for Protesting Deportations

By Mariela Rosario | 07/28/2011 - 09:43 | 0 Comments

Representative Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill) was arrested earlier this week for protesting in front of the White House. It must have felt like dejavu for the Chicago, Illinois rep.—he's been arrested twice before, first in in the mid-1990s for protesting the bombing of Vieques, Puerto Rico, and again just last year for speaking up against Obama's...