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...indeed soul mates, say widow-penalty opponents, then the immigration rule simply defies any sense of fairness. But to get the Nelson-McGovern bill through Congress, they'll probably have to convince immigration conservatives that making the death of an American spouse a reason for the deportation of a non-American spouse is downright un-American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Congress End the Immigration 'Widow Penalty'? | 6/24/2009 | See Source »

...true we are living in difficult times and on occasion this might trigger a hunt for scapegoats to blame for the economic crisis. But in the end, the only thing that will get us out of this mess is to pull together - legal and illegal, American and non-American. This is a global problem, and massive deportation will only make things worse. Where do you think these deported immigrants will find jobs? Maybe with the drug gangs south of the border? Or perhaps with the pirates off the coast of Somalia? Let's not forget that a newly recruited pirate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Workers | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

...with bipartisanship of, and would really rather that campaign promises of be kept by, whether Republicans who created the current disasters like it or not • opponents of are so desperate that all they can do is cling, and cling, and cling, and cling, to crazed allegations of the non-American birth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

...show, hosted by Australia star Hugh Jackman - the first non-American (and non-comedian) to emcee the event in 22 years, and the first-ever Aussie - the one glamour award won by an American was Best Actor; it went to Sean Penn, who played gay-rights activist Harvey Milk in the biopic Milk. This was the one half-surprise in an evening of few big upsets. The oddsmakers had Penn tabbed as a slight underdog to Golden Globe winner Mickey Rourke, whose performance in The Wrestler had all the earmarks of a sentimental Hollywood comeback. (See pictures of Rourke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reflections on Oscar: Bollywood Takes Hollywood | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

...Johansson, thought to have so little chance that he was a 4-1 underdog, unsheathed his vaunted right hand--which he called his "toonder and lightning"--in the third round, driving Patterson to the floor. Six more times he made Patterson one with the canvas, becoming the first non-American in 25 years to hold the heavyweight championship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ingemar Johansson | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

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