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mmigrants
took to the streets in Jackson Heights in late August
to rally against the Bush Administration’s
policies, which they believe have threatened the freedom
of foreigners. The demonstration took
place a week before the National Republican Convention
met for the
first time in New
York City.
A
new report released
by the Center for Immigration Studies, a group that
advocates tougher immigration policies, found
that illegal immigrants in the United States cost the
federal government more than $10 billion a year. Immigrant
advocates disagreed. “That is almost certainly
not true once you look at the numbers," said Jeffrey
S. Passel, a demographer at the Urban Institute.
The Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund filed
a class-action
lawsuit against New York State, charging
that a recent crackdown on
the driver's licenses of hundreds of thousands of immigrant
New Yorkers is unlawful because it usurps
federal responsibility for immigration, oversteps
state law on issuing licenses and ignores due process.
Articles this month from the Caribbean,
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via our partner, Voices That Must Be Heard
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