Newly released records show how often immigration officials deport people for minor offenses.
Aswini Anburajan
Aswini Anburajan is a writer for Feet in 2 Worlds, an ethnic media reporting project supported by the Center for New York City Affairs at the New School.
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A Higher-Education Bubble?
Peter Thiel, the founder of PayPal, is famous for predicting bubbles, first the Nasdaq crash in 2000 and next, the housing bubble in 2008. Now he argues that the next inflated market in the United States that’s about to burst is education. In an interview with TechCrunch he argues: “A true bubble is when something […]
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All Grown Up
TNR‘s the Avenue blog has a strong post on how states and municipalities are taking their economic growth into their own hands. Bruce Katz, head of Brooking’s Metro program, said at the conference: “It strikes me that what we’re really describing here is the maturing of cities and metros, public and private [actors], civic players, […]
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Meg Whitman: An Object Lesson for 2012
The Los Angeles Times has a piece on Meg Whitman changing her tune regarding immigration. Saying in an interview a few days back: The immigration rhetoric the Republican Party uses is not helpful.” What’s more, she said Tuesday at a George W. Bush Institute conference, “we as a party are going to have to make […]
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Gay Penguins Banned From Public Bookshelves
Well, Tapped readers, it looks like I just found my summer reading list. The American Library Association published its annual list of most banned books around the world and No. 1 is And Tango Makes Three. It’s a true story about two male penguins adopting an egg, hatching it, and co-parenting. In writing about why […]
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A Surprising Leader in the Immigration Movement
In the power vacuum created by a lack of federal immigration law, states are going one of two ways: Arizona, Georgia, Tennessee, and others are focusing on stricter enforcement of immigration law while New York, Maryland, and California have carved out a path for undocumented children to receive a college education. In the midst of […]
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Romney’s Health-Care Record: Does It Help or Hurt?
First Read points out that Mitt Romney announced his candidacy for the presidency yesterday and it was a day before the fifth anniversary of the passage of healthcare reform in Massachusetts. The guys at First Read write: Yet it may be fitting that Romney jumped into the presidential waters so close to that anniversary, because […]
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Where Are the Protesters?
The Chicago Tribune reported today that gas is going up to $5 a gallon in Chicago. Nationally, gas prices have increased by 19 cents over the past three weeks. Conventional wisdom would argue that because there’s conflict in the Middle East — in particular, Libya — we’ll have higher oil prices. But given that supply […]
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A Window Into Immigration Courts
The Associated Press has a series out this week on the nation’s immigration courts, filled with lots of color and lots of descriptions of the red tape and bureaucracy that goes along with being an immigrant fighting for residency. It’s worth a read for the sheer absurdity that goes along with administering immigration law in […]
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A Peter King Redux
Peter King‘s mis-advised mantle on holding religious hearings that question the faith of Islam and those who practice it has been picked up by New York state Sen. Greg Balls. In a hearing on what should ostensibly be about New York’s emergency preparedness 10 years after 9/11, Ball will be discussing Sharia law. I spoke […]
