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- Burger King Caves!
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  After years of resistance, Burger King finally joined fellow fast food giants McDonalds and Yum! Brands in meeting farm worker demands for decent wages and working conditions. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers and Burger King announced on Friday that the fast food chain will begin paying a penny more per pound of Florida tomatoes in order to boost wages for tomato harvesters. A penny more per pound actually raises wages by 75 percent, if you can believe that. Until now, the standard rate has been about 45 cents for a 32-pound bucket.
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- Border Agents, Lured by the Other Side - NYTimes.com
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  The smuggler in the public service announcement sat handcuffed in prison garb, full of bravado and shrugging off the danger of bringing illegal immigrants across the border. "Sometimes they die in the desert, or the cars crash, or they drown," he said. "But it's not my fault." Raul Villarreal, a United States Border Patrol agent at the time, in a Mexican advertisement against smuggling. He is now wanted on suspicion of helping smugglers.
  
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- Latino Activists Face Death Threats in Georgia
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  Threats of death and lynching that used to be directed at civil rights leaders in the 1960s are now being targeted at immigrant rights activists in Georgia. Advocates say state lawmakers are partly to blame for creating an environment in which immigrants are treated as less than human.
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- Immigration Reform Under the Next U.S. President
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  One might assume that achieving comprehensive immigration reform would be easy once the next president is elected. After all, the three main candidates all support comprehensive immigration reform and Democrats are likely to hold the majority in Congress, so this should be a piece of cake, right? Don't hold your breath, was the sentiment conveyed by Frank Sharry, executive director of America's Voice, while speaking at a conference at Georgetown Law School this week. When the new administration takes power in January, immigration will not likely be their first burning issue.
  
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- Multimillionaire Helps Undocumented Workers Post Bail
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  Robert Hildreth, a self-made multimillionaire who built his fortune trading in Latin American bonds, wants to create a national fund that would help post bail for undocumented workers seized by immigration authorities. Hildreth began posting bail out of his own pocket after seeing what he considered to be "un-American" images on TV of shackled workers being deported. Hildreth , the son of high school teachers, called the Greater Boston Legal Services and told them to contact him if they needed help posting bonds for undocumented workers.
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- TV Feeds Hate and Fear Toward Immigrants, Report Says
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  U.S. cable television is fueling anti-immigrant sentiment, according to a study published Wednesday, reports EFE news service. The report, "Fear and Loathing in Prime Time: Immigration Myths and Cable News," identifies CNN's Lou Dobbs and Glenn Beck, along with Bill O'Reilly of Fox, as having done the most to create "anti-immigrant hysteria."
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- California: ICE Arrests 905 Undocumented in Three Weeks
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  In the last three weeks, the Office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested 905 undocumented immigrants in a special operation in California, reports La Opinión. This means that between May 1 and May 22, a daily average of 41 people were detained in raids across the state. More than one third of these (327 people, or an average of 15 per day) were detained in the Los Angeles area alone. This is more than twice the daily average undocumented immigrants arrested in Los Angeles between October 2007 and May 2008.
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Jwgardner comments on:
B.C. apologizes for Komagata Maru incident

I’m all for political correctness under most circumstances, but this one kind of reeks of political pandering to me. And misplaced pandering, at that. Why apologise now for that incident, when a whole bunch of injustices perpetrated to two larger Asian immigrant populations in BC – the Chinese and Japanese – remain unanswered? Were earlier apologies for specific incidents supposed to be blanket apologies?

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theauthor comments on:
Immigration raid largest in U.S. history

Good, this opens up more jobs for actual Americans who are sucking up welfare checks.

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theangryindian comments on:
Blacks Against Immigrants? Don’t Believe the Conservative Hype

Old story. But people wish to believe it.

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Damianmann comments on:
Blacks Against Immigrants? Don’t Believe the Conservative Hype

divide and conquer

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Jeff comments on:
NPR: Bill Gates Targets Visa Rules for Tech Workers

NPR let Gates dodge most of the questions refusing to follow up or request him to answer the question they asked. Gates kept returning to his talking points.

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Jeff comments on:
Microsoft | Revamp visa system, Gates urges Congress | Seattle Times Newspaper

Gates seemed to laugh before he answered the question about whether more H1B visa workers depress wages in the U.S. The laugh seems like a tell to me i.e. he’s lying.

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