* The Senate is gearing up to vote again on a bipartisan compromise bill on immigration reform nearly a month after it was “defeated.” * Texas Baptists are bucking the trend of some conservative groups campaigning against the compromise proposal.
* U.S. immigration officials acknowledged that while the number of deportations has increased they are not via “random sweeps” such as during immigrants’ rights protests.
* Let’s see if I get this straight- woman emigrates from Cuba to the U.S. at the age on one year, becomes a naturalized citizen, grows up and raises a family, becomes a local legislator, and is threatened to be deported over illegal voting?
* An immigrant Ecuadorian mother defied threats against her children’s lives and was able to legally bring her children to the U.S. and away from her overly abusive husband.
Sources- Yahoo! News, El Paso Times, Boston.com, Guardian UK, CBS News, New York Daily News, The Latin Americanist
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