After the Supreme Court ruling on monday, the Obama administration ended an agreement Monday that allowed some specially trained local police in the state to enforce immigration laws. I am researching this and will comment as soon as I have more detail.
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Jose Vargas, the former Washington Post journalist, wrote an article in the New York Times magazine on June 22, 2011 that is pertinent to the action by the Obama administration this past week (with his Department of Homeland Security giving 800,000 illegal immigrants the opportunity to remain in this country with no actions to be taken to deport them).

Mr. Vargas was in a conference room at the American Immigration Lawyers Association outfitted with a projector and screen, Vargas watched Oba...

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I plan on starting up this blog with the intention of having a respectful communication with others regarding our present immigration dilemma.

I had written a letter to the editor to the Chicago Tribune in April of 2010 and it was published on 5/2/2010. I will start this blog off by re-printing that and going from there.

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‘I am a legal immigrant’

May 02, 2010|By Steinar Andersen

I am a legal immigrant. I walked the walk pursuing the American dream.

I came to this count...

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