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Senate Bill Creates Path for Undocumented Immigrants, But at Cost of Radically Militarized Border
Democracy Now – By Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez – Jun. 28 (News Analysis) – The Senate has approved a long-awaited immigration reform bill that creates a path to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants while imposing unprecedented new measure…
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A Misleading Attack on McConnell
FactCheck – By Zachary Piaker – Jun. 27 (Fact Check) – A conservative group misleadingly claims Sen. Mitch McConnell “funded the implementation of Obamacare.” McConnell voted to fund the government — including the department responsible for the Affordable Care Act. But he also voted for an amendment to that very bill that would have barred ACA funding.
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Fact-checking attacks on the immigration bill
PolitiFact – By Becky Bowers, Angie Drobnic Holan, Amy Sherman – Jun. 27 (Fact Check) – As the U.S. Senate moves forward on an immigration bill, critics of the legislation have charged the bill won’t stop illegal immigration while rewarding people who came to the United States without proper permission. Sometimes in making their case, though, they’ve distorted what’s actually in the bill.
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Co-Founder of Notorious Anti-Immigrant Minutemen Group Arrested on Suspicion of Sexually Molesting Three Girls
AlterNet – By Steven Hsieh – Jun. 20 (News Report) – Chris Simcox, 52, who co-founded the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps in 2005, was booked into a Maricopa County jail in connection with the molestation of three girls under the age of 10, said Sergeant…
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Fact-checking immigration
PolitiFact – By Becky Bowers – Jun. 20 (Fact Check) – By Becky Bowers Published on Thursday, June 20th, 2013 at 4:55 p.m. As the Senate considers a sweeping immigration bill , here’s a roundup of our recent fact-checks on immigration: Immigrants are ‘more fertile’: Jeb Bush, former Republican governor of Fl
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Silicon Valley intensifies lobbying on immigration bill
finance.yahoo.com – By Rachelle Younglai, Caren Bohan – Jun. 12 (News Report) – The bill also boosts the number of visas available for highly skilled foreigners, which will benefit those with expertise in the so-called STEM fields of science, technolog…
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Ronald Reagan’s Secret, Genocidal Wars
AlterNet – By Noam Chomsky: – Jun. 09 (Special Report) – Most of the border crossers are from Central America. Many say they would rather be home, if the possibility of decent survival hadn’t been destroyed. Mayans such as this young mother are still fleeing from the wreckage of the genocidal assault on the indigenous population of the Guatemalan highlands 30 years ago.
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The Immigration Bill’s ‘$6.3 Trillion Price Tag’
FactCheck – Jun. 05 (Fact Check) – Critics of a bipartisan Senate bill to overhaul the nation’s immigration system falsely claim that it will cost an additional $6.3 trillion, citing a study by a conservative group that opposes the bill. However, the report is not an analysis of the bill, and it says the cost of keeping the status quo “could run into the trillions” – so the net cost would be substantially lower than $6.3 trillion.
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9/11 Hijackers and Student Visas
FactCheck – By Robert Farley – May. 11 (Fact Check) – Lawmakers on both sides of the immigration debate have falsely claimed that “some” or “all” of the 9/11 hijackers were in the U.S. on student visas. Only one of the 19 hijackers came to the U.S. on a student visa. The rest arrived here on tourist or business visas.
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