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Jul 2, 2009: Immigration Crackdown Shifts Focus to Employers (Wall Street Journal )
The Obama administration announced a crackdown Wednesday on hundreds of companies suspected of employing illegal immigrants, signaling a shift in strategy: going after employers instead of workers.

Jul 1, 2009: Illegal immigrants will not face charges of trespassing (Examiner.com)
In a 26-15 vote, the bill that would have criminalized being in Arizona illegally, failed to pass in the house with the needed 31 votes. This bill would have made Arizona the only state to make the presence of illegal immigrants a crime, by expanding trespassing laws.

Jul 1, 2009: AP: Group sends Sotomayor docs to Senate (USA Today)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate aides say a Puerto Rican legal advocacy group has sent a trove of documents on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's past to the panel considering her nomination.

Jun 30, 2009: U.S. officials seek help getting census right in Oklahoma's Hispanic community (NewsOK.com)
Improving the participation of Oklahoma’s Hispanics in next year’s census is essential in getting an accurate count of the population, a census worker said Monday.

Jun 30, 2009: Efforts to Overhaul Health Care Take Familiar Path (Wall Street Journal )

Jun 29, 2009: Thousands Turn Out for Health Care Reform digg Share this on Facebook Huffpost (HuffingtonPost)
Maybe the front page of your newspaper is plastered this morning with photos of the late great Michael Jackson. But what you really need to know about is the huge health care rally that took place a few feet from the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC yesterday.

Jun 29, 2009: Latinos have more reason for pride (Baltimore Sun)
Though the Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor are still two weeks away, there are those in the Latino community who are confident that the position is hers.

Jun 28, 2009: Broad Support for Sotomayor's Supreme Court Confirmation (ABC News)
Sixty-two percent in this ABC News/Washington Post poll say Sotomayor should be confirmed, among the highest levels of support for a high court nominee in polling data back to Robert Bork in 1987. The only numerically higher was 63 percent initial support for Clarence Thomas, which fell when his nomination turned controversial.

Jun 26, 2009: A Way Forward on Immigration (NY Times)
President Obama and Congress members met privately at the White House on Thursday for their first major discussion of immigration reform. Immigration is just one unsolved national crisis among many, and it was hard not to suspect that the parties might use the meeting — which had already been twice postponed — to dampen expectations for a bill this year.

Jun 26, 2009: Obama Committed to the 'Heavy Lifting' on Immigration, Lawmakers Say (Washington Post)
A bipartisan group of lawmakers emerged from a White House meeting with President Obama today confident that the president is ready to put his political weight behind an comprehensive overhaul of the nation's immigration laws.

Jun 25, 2009: White House Hosts Bipartisan Immigration Talks (Wall Street Journal )
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will meet Thursday with a bipartisan, politically diverse group of lawmakers to begin discussing a rewrite of U.S. immigration laws.

Jun 24, 2009: Students Stage Mock Graduation To Advocate for Undocumented (Washington Post)
Every June for the past eight years, hundreds of undocumented high school and college students have traveled to Washington from across the country and urged Congress to pass a bill that would make it easier for them to become citizens and pursue higher education.

Jun 24, 2009: MDC students rally against deportations (Miami Hearald)
Miami Dade College students rallied in support of a bill before Congress that would allow children of undocumented immigrants to remain in the U.S. and go to school.

Jun 23, 2009: Congress Announces Health Care Reform Draft Proposal (Imperial Valley News)
Washington, DC - Three committees in the House of Representatives have created a draft proposal to reform our health care system and ensure affordable, quality health care - a critical fix to an unsustainably expensive system that hurts families and puts American businesses at a global disadvantage.

Jun 22, 2009: Immigration reform to get a quiet kickoff (LA Times)
The White House has downplayed expectations for a meeting next week of lawmakers involved in the issue. Some Democrats say they might not be able to pass a citizenship plan until after the 2010 vote.

Jun 22, 2009: Do You Have Sotomayor's Number? (The Washington Post)
Let's face it: Barring some sensational disclosures, maybe a couple of felonies, there was never going to be much of a Senate battle over the confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court.

Jun 22, 2009: TODAY looks at Hispanic America (MSNBC)
In a week-long series, TODAY examines a wide range of issues facing the Hispanic community. From population growth and immigration to trailblazing Hispanic women and the Latin influence on entertainment, we will feature the diverse ways Hispanic people have impacted the country.

Jun 22, 2009: Arizona Legislature Considers New Trespassing Laws Against Illegal Aliens (Fox News)
The Arizona state House is considering a proposal passed by the House which would criminalize illegal immigrants as trespassers if police have reasonable suspicion to check a person's immigration status and find it lacking.

Jun 19, 2009: Border Patrol Arrests of Illegal Immigrants Drop (NY Times)
Arrests of illegal immigrants by the Border Patrol declined in 2008 to 724,000, the lowest number in 35 years, the Department of Homeland Security reported.

Jun 19, 2009: Republican: Will Sotomayor represent 'all of us'? (The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON (AP) — A GOP senator said Thursday he will use hearings on Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court to ask whether she intends to be a justice "for all of us, or just for some of us."

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