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Justice Department Files Lawsuit against Arizona over Racial Profiling Law

Justice Department Files Lawsuit against Arizona over Racial Profiling Law

(SALEM, Ore..) - Today the U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit in federal court against the state of Arizona over their racial profiling law, S.B. 1070.

President Says Immigration Reform Being Held Hostage by Politics

Calls for passage of comprehensive reform and for Republican Leadership to stop obstruction.

(SALEM, Ore.) - In a speech at American University today, President Obama reiterated the urgent need to fix our broken immigration system through comprehensive immigration reform.

The following is a statement by Francisco Lopez, Executive Director of CAUSA. "This morning, the President gave a public speech on immigration. The speech reflected what Americans already know: the need for comprehensive immigration reform is urgent.

New Mexico State Takes on Immigration Issue

The Las Cruces gathering promises up-to-date information on legislative proposals for addressing the US immigration crisis.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - As the immigration issue continues heating up and shaping US politics in the summer of 2010, New Mexico State University will once again play a role in the debate.

Sponsored by the school’s International Relations Institute and Center for Latin American and Border Studies, a summer institute on immigration will take place on the Las Cruces campus during the month of July.

Arizona Immigration Law & Senators John McCain & Russell Pearce

One source suggests that it is little more than a “publicity stunt.”

(LOS ANGELES) - One national report calls it, "Arizona's New Low" and it just might be; the latest idea of State Sen. Russell Pearce is to deny citizenship to people born in the U.S. if their parents happen to be here illegally.

There is no question that laws should be followed, they exist for a reason, but it is not that simple. People who were born in the USA are Americans.

Groups to Protest ICE Program that Divides Families and Threatens Community Security

March and Rally calls for end to ICE program that divides families, it happens today at 4:30 p.m.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - CAUSA Oregon will conduct a joint demonstration with Rural Organizing Project (ROP) and SEIU Local 503 OPEU outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Office in Portland. During a march and rally, members of the groups will call for an end to a program that threatens community safety and security.

Started in October 2008, "Secure Communities" is a national immigration program that targets non-citizens who are arrested by the police.

Border Police, Community Meet on Immigration

“This isn’t the situation we were expecting from the (Obama) administration.” - Fernando Garcia, executive director of the Border Network,

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - In an unusual encounter, police chiefs from the Paso del Norte region of the US-Mexico borderland met with community members this past weekend to discuss immigration, racial profiling, identity cards, Arizona’s SB 1070 law, use of lethal force, and overall police-community relationships.

Petition Group Aids Man Facing Deportation

Justice is increasingly lacking in America.

(WASHINGTON D.C .) - The Care2 Petition site already has almost ten thousand signatures in their effort to aid a man named Walter, who came to the United States when he was just three years old.

At 23, Walter was nabbed by federal authorities and held in a detention facility for nearly three weeks. Now he faces deportation.

Hope for Racism in America, Texas and Arizona

I find this exchange notable and remarkable because it shows what appears to be something close to hatred, become a form of realization.

(SALEM, Ore.) - I am against racism. I see it as a serious, continuing problem in this country and I am not wrong on that. I know about it personally, because I grew up in a rough section of LA and white kids were by far the minority.

This story is about a comment exchange on a particular story, that led a visitor from seemingly

Arizona`s Illegal Immigration Problem

The history of illegal immigration and illegal war in the South-Western states is an interesting and informative one.

(EUGENE, Ore.) - Arizona Senate Bill 1070 has gained the State a great deal of attention recently. Typically, no one would care about the pronouncements of the so called government of that backwater hell hole, but the sheer Nazism of the law was enough to perk even international interest.

The normally subdued Economist led with the headline “Hysterical Nativism.”

Education News: The Mexican Revolution in El Paso

Asked about parallels between the migrations of 100 years ago and today’s exodus from neighboring Ciudad Juarez, El Paso Prof. Keith Erekson, says specific causes of the dislocations might be different, the terror and trauma suffered by people are similar.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - The role of the Texas border city of El Paso remains one of the little-known stories of the revolutionary upheaval that erupted in Mexico in 1910.

The US city on the Rio Grande was a vital center for many of the plots, intrigues, advances and retreats of different political factions vying for power in Mexico.