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...Frankly, I didn't expect Russians to open fire. I thought they clearly saw that this was an official cortege.' Georgian President MIKHEIL SAAKASHVILI, accusing Russian forces near the Georgian border of firing upon his motorcade during a trip with Poland's President...
...leading co-sponsors. The legislation stalled in the Senate late last year and was shelved, according to a Washington source, until after the 2008 elections. Heberto Alanis, Jr. ’12, a native of Roma, Texas, which is located just a few miles from the Mexican border, said that the DREAM Act “makes a lot of sense.” “Immigration has played a large role in making this country more diverse,” Alanis said, adding that he thinks that offering higher education opportunities and amnesty to children of illegal immigrants...
...serve the economic self-interests of all Americans right now,” said audience member Amy M. Beeson ’10. Dominguez’s opening remarks concerned the President-elect’s general views on immigration, founded on three main building blocks: supporting immigration, strengthening border control, and providing a system of legalization. He described Obama’s stated goal of increasing immigration as unlikely to be feasible since a large consensus of the population believes that immigration must be scaled back. “Even among immigrant communities, there is the view that...
...first glance, President-elect Barack Obama's pick for his Secretary of Homeland Security looks a lot like the person currently holding the job. Governor Janet Napolitano is a former prosecutor who cares more about immigration and border security than almost anything else. But Napolitano will be very different from Secretary Michael Chertoff in two major ways. First, she is a notch to the left of Chertoff on immigration matters, having repeatedly criticized the building of a fence along the U.S.-Mexico border and having opposed state bills targeting illegal immigrants. Still, as governor of Arizona, she knows more about...
...passed by Congress to upgrade the security of drivers' licenses, as well as the failure of the Federal Government to take a lead in repairing the country's immigration policies. (Napolitano declared a state of emergency in Arizona in 2005 to direct more funds to the state's border...