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Immigration


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Multi-status bullet E-mail reproduces quotes from various Hispanic leaders.*

Green bullet Photograph shows a Mexican national flag flown above an upside-down U.S. flag during a high school student protest over immigration reform.*

Multi-status bullet E-mail suggests a countermeasure to the proposed "Day Without Immigrants" protest.

Multi-status bullet E-mail provides statistics about the number and costs of illegal aliens in Los Angeles County.

Yellow bullet E-mail describes U.S. citizen's experience obtaining permission to work in Mexico.

Red bullet Shoplifting and other forms of crime decreased dramatically on 1 May 2006, the "Day Without Immigrants."

White bullet E-mail describes ruse intended to scare away littering Mexican construction workers.

Multi-status bullet E-mail lists senators who "voted to give illegal aliens Social Security benefits."

Multi-status bullet E-mailed petition advocates denying social services to immigrants.

Red bullet Letter to the editor contrasts immigrants from different eras.

White bullet Native American warns U.S. vice-president about American immigration policy.

Multi-status bullet E-mail lists senators who "voted against making English the official language of America."

Green bullet A recent patient survey indicated that 70% of the women who gave birth at Parkland Memorial Hospital in the first three months of 2006 were illegal immigrants.

Green bullet Bank of America has been offering credit cards to customers lacking Social Security numbers.

Red bullet E-mail provides transcript of a TV interview with an illegal immigrant from Mexico.

Yellow bullet E-mail describes conditions at a California Title 1 school.

Red bullet The U.S. government provides a much greater monthly allowance to refugees than to pensioners.

Red bullet Non-citizens don't pay taxes but are eligible for federal educational assistance programs not available to U.S. citizens.

Red bullet The leaders of Canada, the United States, and Mexico agreed in 2005 to subsume their countries into a greater "North American Union" by the year 2010.

Red bullet O Canada will be sung in Hindi at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

Yellow bullet "Operation Wetback" deported 13 million Mexican nationals from the U.S. during the 1950s.


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