Tag: Immigrants: Page 28

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Report Links Hate Crimes to Anti-immigrant Sentiment

Anti-immigrant sentiment is fueling nationwide increases in the number of hate groups and the number of hate crimes targeting Latinos, a watchdog group said Monday.

March 11, 2008

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Report Links Hate Crimes to Anti-immigrant Sentiment

Anti-immigrant sentiment is fueling nationwide increases in the number of hate groups and the number of hate crimes targeting Latinos, a watchdog group said Monday.

March 10, 2008

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Virginia Hispanic Population Triples in 16 Years

Virginia’s Hispanic population tripled from 1990 to 2006, to more than 460,000 or 6 percent of the population, according to a study released Feb. 25 by the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.

March 4, 2008

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Louisiana Deputies Taking Spanish Lessons

university language department chair is spending time teaching sheriff’s deputies Spanish so they can handle emergencies better when immigrants who speak little or no English are involved.

February 26, 2008

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Hispanics Bearing the Brunt of Xenophobia

Resentment of undocumented immigrants has become a major part of the political agenda from national presidential races to local elections.

February 19, 2008

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Hispanics Bearing the Brunt of Xenophobia

Angry at what some believe is federal inaction in policing borders, states and localities are adopting a slew of laws that deny services to undocumented residents, prompt police to act as Immigration.

February 19, 2008

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Hispanics Bearing the Brunt of Xenophobia

Resentment of undocumented immigrants has become a major part of the political agenda from national presidential races to local elections.

February 18, 2008

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Just the Stats:Older population to Grow Faster Than Total of Working-age Adults

Rapid growth in the nation’s older population is likely to put huge pressure on the cost of government safety-net programs, even though the rise of immigrants is helping to increase the total of working-age people, a report from the Pew Hispanic Center said.

February 12, 2008

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GOP Bill Would Deny Undocumented Students Admission To S.C. Public Colleges

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — House Republican leaders unveiled an immigration reform plan Monday that would bill the federal government for the cost of detaining illegal immigrants and prevent illegals from attending any public college.

January 17, 2008

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Educational Attainment and Salary Data Released

More than half of Asians 25 years or older held a bachelor’s degree or more (52 percent) in 2007, compared to 32 percent of non-Hispanic Whites, 19 percent of Blacks and 13 percent of Hispanics, according to new U.S. Census Bureau statistics.

January 9, 2008

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Arkansas Officials Probe Hispanic Group’s Membership Cards, I.D. Confusion

MALVERN Ar A nonprofit group set up three years ago to serve the Hispanic community issues membership cards that some say look too much like official identification that could exploit or wrongly benefit illegal immigrants.

January 8, 2008

Community Colleges

University of Arizona Checks Legal Status of Students Under Proposition 300

TUCSON, Ariz. The University of Arizona has reviewed the legal status of 877 students identified as potentially ineligible for in-state tuition under a state law aimed at illegal immigrants, but cleared most of them.

January 1, 2008