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Obama in Mexico
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Obama to Discuss Immigration, Drug Violence, and Economy During Trip to Mexico

By Sugey Palomares | 05/02/2013 - 15:42 | 0 Comments

President Barack Obama is currently in Mexico for a highly publicized meeting with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto. According to NPR, talks about immigration, drug violence, and economic trade are on Obama’s agenda. This is the...

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Marco Rubio and the Gang of 8 speak on immigration reform
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Boston Bombings: Senators Say Tragedy Should Speed Up Immigration Deal

By Amaris Castillo | 04/22/2013 - 13:42 | 0 Comments

The Boston Marathon bombing remains on a lot of peoples’ minds – in particular two senators who say that the recent tragedy that left three dead “should urge us to act quicker, not slower when it comes to getting the 11 million identified (a reference to the number of undocumented immigrants in the United States.”

Such were the words of Republican Sen....

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Victoria Soto sister Carlee Soto after Senate gun control vote
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“Disgusted” and “Disappointed”: Newtown Shooting Victim’s Sister Carlee Soto to the Senate

By Viviana Hurtado | 04/19/2013 - 12:42 | 0 Comments

The younger sister of Vicki Soto, one of the Newtown, Connecticut shooting victims, had powerful words for the U.S. Senate after a crucial gun control legislation vote requiring background checks failed. Speaking on CNN, Carlee Soto expressed what millions of Americans feel: “I am disgusted and so disappointed in our Senate...

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Gabrielle Giffords and husband Mark Kelly
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Gabrielle Giffords Pens Angry NYT Piece on Need For Gun Control

By Amaris Castillo | 04/18/2013 - 11:58 | 0 Comments

The U.S. Senate failed to pass legislation on Wednesday that would expand background checks for those wanting to buy guns, causing many people to become upset, including Gabrielle Giffords, the politician who was a victim of a tragic shooting near Tucson on Jan. 8, 2011 that left six people dead and 12 wounded.

In a moving opinion piece for...

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Gun Control Op Ed
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Why The Senate Failed Us With Their Gun Control Vote

By Irina Gonzalez | 04/18/2013 - 11:50 | 0 Comments

I don’t have personal experience with guns.

I know people who keep guns in their homes for their own protection and people who have been robbed at gunpoint. But I, personally, have never had to deal with a gun. What I have had experience with, however, is fear in the classroom after news of the Columbine High School shooting...

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Marco Rubio speaks during a hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee
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Immigration Bill: How Do We Make the Bad, Good?

By Viviana Hurtado | 04/17/2013 - 15:50 | 0 Comments

The 844 page long “Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act” unveiled by the Senate so-called Gang of Eight is at best "C" level work.

Click here to read the bill in its entirety.

Reaching consensus on sweeping legislation...

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Immigration Reform: Senators Reveal New Plan That Includes Path To Citizenship
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Immigration Bill: Senators Reveal New Plan That Includes Path to Citizenship

By Sugey Palomares | 04/16/2013 - 16:08 | 0 Comments

After intense rounds of negotiations, eight bipartisan senators, including Marco Rubio, introduced an immigration bill that aims to fix the broken immigration system and find a lawful solution for an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. The proposed bill also plans on changing...

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Time is Now Immigration Rally in Washington, DC
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March on Washington: “What Comprehensive Immigration Reform Means to Me” (VIDEO)

By Viviana Hurtado | 04/11/2013 - 13:12 | 0 Comments

In 2006 while a local television reporter in Providence, Rhode Island, I covered the immigration reform rally, one of many held throughout the country. Many in politics and the media marveled that Latinos had come out in big numbers. Fast forward seven years to this week’s “All in for Citizenship” rally in Washington, DC (with important...

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