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U.S. News // 1 decade ago

'Dreamers' switch to civil disobedience to help cause

A shift in tactics of Dream Act supporters, with escalating acts of civil disobedience, has been noted by immigration reform organizers.

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The Issue: How far is the reach of the scandal monster dogging Obama?

Talk about a whiff. The Obama administration, in one extraordinarily difficult stretch, was belted with the specters of the U.S. Consulate bombing, word of the IRS targeting conservative groups and the revelation that the FBI was rifling through The Associated Press' phone records.

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New York City bill would let non-citizen immigrants vote

Some 800,000 immigrants would get the right to vote under a New York bill that would make the city the largest to let non-citizens vote in local elections.

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Business groups push back on immigration

U.S. business groups are pushing back against pressure on employers that has become a feature of a crackdown on illegal immigration, The New York Times reports.

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U.S. to participate in anti-racism meet

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Alphonso Jackson will lead the U.S. delegation to a conference on racism, xenophobia and discrimination.

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Think tanks wrap-up II

The UPI think tank wrap-up is a daily digest covering opinion pieces, reactions to recent news events and position statements released by various think tanks. This is the second of three wrap-ups for Feb. 18.

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Anlysis: GOP vote orthodoxy shy on facts

An orthodox analysis of the November election has been gradually emerging since Nov. 5. It holds that a major reason for the GOP victory was that they made significant inroads into the Hispanic and other minority votes and that this shows that their much

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Think tanks wrap-up II

The UPI think tank wrap-up is a daily digest covering opinion pieces, reactions to recent news events and position statements released by various think tanks. T

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End race preference policies?

Race relations have improved dramatically since the 1960s, and United States law and policy should reflect this change, two conservative think tanks report in a new book.

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These employers are now starting to realize that nobody is in a better position than they are to make the case that they do need the workers and they do want to be on the right side of the law
Business groups push back on immigration Jul 06, 2008

Polls show that the public opinion is squeamish about immigration
Think tanks wrap-up II Feb 18, 2003

Tamar Jacoby (born 1954) is known primarily for her writing on immigration-related issues.

A native of New York City, Ms. Jacoby graduated from Yale University in 1976, after which she became a staffer on the New York Review of Books. From 1981 to 1987 she served as a deputy editor of the op-ed page of The New York Times, and from 1987 to 1989 as a senior writer and justice editor at Newsweek. She has also been assistant to the editor at the New York Review of Books.

Her writing with regard to race relations and immigration has been published in numerous publications, including Commentary, Dissent, The Nation, The New Republic, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the New York Times Book Review, among other journals of political thought and newspapers of national or regional scope.

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