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Immigration

Department of Labor, Mexican consulate announce workers’ rights education program

By | 02.03.12 | 11:08 am

The U.S. Department of Labor and the Mexican consulate in Orlando today announced an agreement to offer Mexican workers in Florida the resources to understand their rights.

Numbers USA: Real winners in Florida GOP primary are ‘Latino Dignity & Self-Deportation’

By | 02.03.12 | 10:22 am

Numbers USA — an organization that agitates “For Lower Immigration Levels” — wrote this week that the “Vote Winners” in Florida’s recent GOP presidential primary “Are Latino Dignity & Self-Deportation.”

Students to hold prayer vigil to support in-state tuition bills

By | 02.02.12 | 9:44 am

Students Working for Equal Rights and other groups will hold a prayer vigil at the Miami office of Republican state Sen. Anitere Flores today, two days after a Florida Senate committee shot down a bill that would have allowed U.S.-born children of undocumented workers to qualify for in-state tuition rates at Florida colleges.

Committee blocks bill that would give citizens with undocumented parents in-state tuition

By | 02.01.12 | 9:28 am

A Florida Senate higher education committee yesterday shot down a bill filed by state Sen. Rene Garcia, R-Hialeah, that would allow children of undocumented workers to qualify for in-state tuition rates at Florida colleges.

Miami-Dade Commission for Women lobbies delegation on abortion, wage theft, shackling

By | 01.31.12 | 1:47 pm

The Miami-Dade County Commission for Women sent a letter Monday to the Miami-Dade legislative delegation in Tallahassee, expressing its position on several “pending bills of particular importance to Florida’s women and girls.”

GOP officials: Crafting national immigration policy ‘an economic imperative’

By | 01.30.12 | 1:33 pm

A panel of state and federal GOP officials who spoke at the Hispanic Leadership Network conference in Miami Friday called for a national conversation on immigration reform at the federal level.

Romney at Hispanic Leadership event: Expand immigration in the U.S., trade in Latin America

By | 01.28.12 | 11:37 am

GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney told participants at the Hispanic Leadership Network conference in Miami Friday that as president he would protect and expand legal immigration that conforms to the needs of the business community.

Gingrich outlines immigration and Latin American policies at Hispanic Leadership event

By | 01.27.12 | 4:45 pm

GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich told participants in the Hispanic Leadership Network conference in Miami Friday that the U.S. needs to maximize trade and competition in Latin America.

Rubio defends himself against ‘anti-immigrant’ charges at Hispanic Leadership event

By | 01.27.12 | 12:22 pm

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., told participants at the Hispanic Leadership Network conference this morning in Miami that immigration is a gateway issue that touches everyone in the Hispanic community.

From ‘attrition through enforcement’ to ‘self-deportation’

By | 01.27.12 | 10:29 am

When GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney spoke about “self-deportation” in Florida this week, his closest rival Newt Gingrich called it an “Obama-level fantasy,” but self-deportation is really just another way to describe “attrition through enforcement.”

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