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		<title>The Administration is Saying the Right Things and Promising to &#8220;Always Be Listening&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, President Obama appeared on &#8220;Premio Lo Nuestro,&#8221; a Latin music awards show, and thanked Latino voters for coming out to vote in November (even if they didn&#8217;t vote for him). He also encouraged Latinos to keep coming out and making their voices heard, promising that he would &#8220;always be listening.&#8221; This appearance follows [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itsourcommunity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6110898&amp;post=144&amp;subd=itsourcommunity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hold Fast to DREAMs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The DREAM Act (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act, S. 729/H.R. 1751) is back. Today, a bipartisan group* of lawmakers in both the House and Senate reintroduced the DREAM Act, a bill which would offer undocumented children who grew up in the United States a path to legal status and eventual citizenship through [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itsourcommunity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6110898&amp;post=142&amp;subd=itsourcommunity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jailed Without Justice: Immigration Detention as Bad as Gitmo</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Amnesty International released its new report &#8220;Jailed Without Justice: Immigration Detention in the USA.&#8221; This report documents the horrific conditions of the United States&#8217; immigrant detention centers. It reports that immigrants frequently do not have access to legal council, their cases are denied judicial review, they live in substandard conditions being denied basic hygiene, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itsourcommunity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6110898&amp;post=139&amp;subd=itsourcommunity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Alex Talks Immigration on Peace and Politics&#8217; Podcast</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I met with Caroline and Maggie here in our office to talk about immigration on the Peace and Politics (FCNL&#8217;s intern blog) podcast. Immigration is an issue which FCNL has worked on for many years. Ruth, our legislative secretary, has been at meeting after meeting on the Hill with other faith and secular [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itsourcommunity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6110898&amp;post=137&amp;subd=itsourcommunity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Secretary Clinton Goes to Mexico</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Secretary of State Hillary Clinton heads to Mexico today to discuss a wide range of issues regarding US-Mexico relations. At the top of this list will be the current border violence caused by drug cartels and arms trafficking into Mexico, but immigration will also be a key point of discussion. Secretary Clinton will be in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itsourcommunity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6110898&amp;post=135&amp;subd=itsourcommunity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TAKE ACTION: Thank Rep. Pelosi for Supporting Immigration Reform, Ending Raids</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took a strong stance against immigration raids and for humane, comprehensive immigration reform. Standing with hundreds of families in San Francisco’s Mission District, Pelosi made it clear as she has not before that she will make immigration reform a priority in the House. TAKE ACTION Please thank Nancy Pelosi [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itsourcommunity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6110898&amp;post=133&amp;subd=itsourcommunity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UFCW Says New CIS Report Demonstrates Complete Lack of Knowledge</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent Center for Immigration Studies (CIS)&#8211;an independent &#8220;think tank&#8221; that promotes restricting immigration and has been labeled by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a nativist group&#8211;report claims that harsh immigration enforcement tactics, like the raids on the Swift &#38; Co. meatpacking plants in 2006, have contributed to a rise in wages and improved [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itsourcommunity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6110898&amp;post=131&amp;subd=itsourcommunity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Last Week: In Our Community (Mar. 16-23)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Immigration news and updates from Monday, March 16 through Monday, March 23. Stop the Raids In his blog &#8220;God&#8217;s Politics,&#8221; evangelical leader and activist Jim Wallis tells people that ending immigration raids is a matter of conscious. End Immigration Raids, Cardinal Tells President On Saturday, Cardinal Francis George called on President Barack Obama to end [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itsourcommunity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6110898&amp;post=129&amp;subd=itsourcommunity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UFCW States that Recent CIS Report Demostrates A Complete Lack of Knowledge</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent Center for Immigration Studies (CIS)&#8211;an independent &#8220;think tank&#8221; that promotes restricting immigration and has been labeled by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a nativist group&#8211;report claims that harsh immigration enforcement tactics, like the raids on the Swift &#38; Co. meatpacking plants in 2006, have contributed to a rise in wages and improved [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itsourcommunity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6110898&amp;post=127&amp;subd=itsourcommunity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Extends Liberian DED</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you, Mr. President! On Friday, President Obama extended Liberian Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) for 12 months. This extension grants Liberians the temporary right to live and work in the United States. Obama&#8217;s granting of Liberian DED is a welcome decision by immigrant and refugee rights groups. Liberians were first given Temporary Protected Status (TPS) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itsourcommunity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6110898&amp;post=125&amp;subd=itsourcommunity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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