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DOJ Challenges Sex Offender’s Effort to Renounce Citizenship

James Kaufman, a registered sex offender who is locked up in state prison in Wisconsin, has been trying for six years to renounce his citizenship, arguing that he is entitled to do so inside the United States during a state of war. But the Justice Department has fought Kaufman’s effort to shed his citizenship while still in the country. And now that fight has gone to the D.C. Circuit, where the …

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Immigration law polarizes Arizonans

These days, Jessica Mejia doesn’t leave the house without three pieces of identification to prove her citizenship.

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Local and national groups plan march for immigration reform

Four years after the last attempt to overhaul the nation’s immigration policies failed, local reform leaders are partnering with national and state groups May 1 in an attempt to propel immigration reform to the front of public consciousness.

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Arrested? Tell Your Immigration Lawyer!

The intersection of criminal and immigration law is fraught with risk for foreign nationals, whether they are lawful permanent residents, nonimmigrants or completely without legal status.

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23 indicted in weddings-for-citizenship

A federal grand jury has indicted 23 people in what prosecutors called a conspiracy to set up sham weddings in exchange for cash, free vacations to Cambodia and sex, according to documents unsealed Tuesday.

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Guy W. Farmer: Immigration reform looks a lot like amnesty

Now that the Obama administration has jammed a trillion-dollar health care reform plan through Congress, it won’t be long before immigration reform is back on the national agenda. Beware, however, because “comprehensive immigration reform” means conditional amnesty for more than 10 million illegal immigrants. Immigration reform is an issue with major implications for Nevada because Hispanics …

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Migrants ask for reform

Nearly a hundred people were in Elks Park Tuesday evening to support the reform of immigration laws, which they said were too tough, hurt the countrys economy and kept them from living out the American dream.

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Why One Undocumented Student Is Walking the Trail of Dreams

SAN FRANCISCO, Mar 17 (New America Media) – Four students who were brought to the United States by their families when they were young and are still undocumented are walking 1,500 miles from their homes in Miami, Fla. to Washington, D.C., to ask for immigration reform. New America Media read more