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News Round Up In-Brief
News from the US:
- Republicans won many key races in the midterm elections, dramatically altering the landscape at the federal, state, and local levels. Read more about how the political terrain for immigration policy debate will be altered in the coming years. A NYT editorial piece claims that if their legislation looks anything like their campaign ads, there will be no way for illegal immigrants to get right with the law and no real solution to illegal immigration.
- Two years after implementation, confusion abounds over a Bush-era program to help federal officials detain and deport illegal immigrants held on criminal charges by using fingerprints collected by local police departments.
- The family of an undocumented man from El Salvador who died after his cancer was left undiagnosed for over a year while he was in prison has been awarded $1.73 million.
- Around the country, wards of the state are in health care limbo, with fragmentary personal histories, no insurance, and no family or native land willing to take them back.
- In a unanimous decision, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday that illegal immigrants can be eligible for the same reduced tuition at public colleges and universities as legal residents of the state.
- Tennessee Republican Rep. Curry Todd said in a statement published today that he is “truly sorry” for his remark likening pregnant illegal immigrants to multiplying rats.
International News:
- Seven people have been killed and 11 seriously injured by a fire in a state-owned housing facility for immigrants in the French city of Dijon.
- Four immigrants who have lived atop a 35-meter (115-foot) crane for two weeks to protest Italy’s immigration policies have climbed down.
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The Republicans are so funny, when the economy is good you say let’s all celebrate “Cinco de Mayo, my brothers” but when the economy is down “it’s all your fault, you damn immigrant”.
The GOP has went on a nationwide rant in proposing and passing several anti-immigration legislation (that our US Courts continue to strike down) and have continue to blame the immigrant for the flat economy or worse.
Plus the more radical of the GOP are now attacking our Constitution (with all Amendments), and the Declaration of Independence, in their crazy notion of wanting to take away rights that all of us take for granted in their misguided attempt to garner some much needed votes (how is that working, of course I mean the Senate), they really are fools, and leading the GOP towards obscurity because they are no longer a party of ideas, just of empty suits.
When most Americans (of Latin America roots) went to the polls this November we all remembered who stood with us, our children, aunts and uncles, brothers and sisters, our parents and grandparents, in one word our families and who stood against us, so trying to make amends now is somewhat funny, but go ahead, you did not change our minds. Your hate made you do it, and you found out that you reap what you have sown. I wonder what Abraham Lincoln would say about todays GOP, he unlike the current GOP was a man of ideas.