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Insisting that "it's long past the point where we have to admit that we need the swarms of immigrants crossing our borders," Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) said as he urged Republicans to "join me in enacting amnesty and citizenship for these people." "We need to face the fact that Americans are too lazy to work and reproduce," the Senator declared. "There are millions of job vacancies that cannot be filled because citizens prefer to loaf and draw checks from the government. There are millions of babies that aren't born because we've made abortion convenient and cost-free. If we...

A federal judge in San Antonio, Texas, told an audience during a citizenship ceremony that if they don’t like President-elect Donald Trump, they should go to another country. John Primomo, a federal magistrate judge for the United States District Court in the Western District of Texas, was presiding over the ceremony on Thursday. He criticized Americans who have protested in the days after Trump won the elections, according to KHOU. “I can assure you that whether you voted for him or you did not vote for him, if you are a citizen of the United States, he is your president,”...

Miami — More than 100 Haitians crammed inside a Catholic church Tuesday to ask questions about a federal government designation that will allow possibly hundreds of thousands of illegal Haitian immigrants to work in the U.S. and send money home during the next 18 months. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Alejandro Mayorkas said Haitians will be able to start filing their applications for the Temporary Protected Status on Thursday, the day official notice of the program is expected to be published in the Federal Register. Only those in the U.S. before the earthquake hit their Caribbean homeland a week ago...

...America, meet the Uighurs. Seventeen of the 241 terrorist detainees currently being held at Guantanamo Bay are Chinese Muslims known as Uighurs. They have been allied with and trained by al-Qaida-affiliated terrorist groups. The goal of the Uighurs is to establish a separate sharia state. As part of its ongoing effort to close Guantanamo Bay, the Obama administration has had to figure out what to do with the Uighurs. Officials believe that if they’re sent back to China they will be persecuted, and no third country will take them. So the Obama administration has decided to set the Uighurs loose...

100-plus give a lesson in free speechBy John Henderson jhenderson@dailyprogress.com Published: July 5, 2008While thousands flocked to hear President Bush speak at Monticello on Friday morning, Dana Palmer stood by the side of Route 20 dressed like Lady Liberty to teach her kids a lesson in free speech. Palmer, her husband and their two children were among more than 100 people to protest Bush’s visit to Monticello with homemade signs, costumes, expressive T-shirts and their voices. Palmer wore bright green robes, a foam crown and had her face painted white to represent “the death of liberty,” while her husband, dressed...

New citizens make it official Tuesday The line snaked around the Alario Center lobby and out the door Tuesday morning. Excited chatter in Vietnamese, Spanish, and even some African dialects reverberated through the hallways. For some of the 300 green-card holders turned U.S. citizens who came through the Westwego events center, it was the final step in a decades-long process of becoming an American. While filling out the forms and waiting on background checks from the government, they studied in American schools, worked for American employers and raised families in American neighborhoods. But as the Star-Spangled Banner rang out in...

United States of America March and Rally in Hollywood Caif. This event is sponsored by The Minutemen Project, Ted Hayes' Crispus Attucks Brigade, Calif Coaltion for Immigration Reform, and the Federation for Immigration Reform. Saturday July 8, 2006 4:00 to 5:30 PM --Rally at corner of Hollywood & Argyle 6:00 to 8:00 PM --March from rally point to Hollywood and Orange and RETURN. Many guest speakers. For more information contact http://www.uscab.org We will meet at Argyle and Hollywood (this may change, but I will let everyone know) on Saturday, July 8th. Set-up will begin at 4pm. Rally/speeches will begin at...

Amid a growing furor over illegal immigration, 25 people who came to Alabama legally officially became Americans on Friday. Some fled war. Others sought protection from oppression. A few were motivated by love -- of the American dream or an American. Some spoke broken English with thick accents, while others were as fluent as native-born Americans. "I love it. I love everything," Parzhin Abdullah Abdulrahman said of her new country after she and other people hailing from 18 nations swore allegiance to the United States during a ceremony in Mobile's federal courthouse. Abdulrahman came to the United States nine years...

The same immigration agents who, day after day, encouraged the cleaning lady at their office to become a citizen on Friday saw Blanca Ruiz finally take the oath. Ruiz, a native of Mexico, was among nearly 500 immigrants sworn in as U.S. citizens at this year's largest naturalization ceremony in Tucson. The ceremony recognized Citizenship Day, which is celebrated today. The Tucson Convention Center teemed with proud new citizens from 69 countries. Mexico contributed the most people, close to 300. Ruiz, who is from the state of Chihuahua in northern Mexico, took it all in. At 60, she almost couldn't...

SAN DIEGO – Marine Cpl. David Antonio Garcia stood on the deck of an aircraft carrier Thursday and was sworn in as an American citizen, after already serving under the U.S. flag in Iraq. The native of Mexico was among 80 sailors and Marines from 25 countries from Canada to Syria who became citizens in a Veterans Day ceremony aboard the USS Midway, a reward for putting their lives on the line for their adopted country.

<p>CAMP PENDLETON – The men and women risked their lives for the United States in Afghanistan and Iraq but couldn't call themselves citizens.</p> <p>That ended Friday morning, when 207 Marines and sailors from 43 countries were sworn in as U.S. citizens before cheering friends, family and military brass at a Camp Pendleton auditorium.</p>

<p>SACRAMENTO (AP) - New citizens could register to vote and vote on Election Day under a bill approved Wednesday by the state Senate.</p> <p>Current law requires people to be registered as voters at least 15 days before the election to vote in that election. A bill by Assemblywoman Jenny Oropeza, D-Long Beach, would allow new citizens to register up until Election Day and still vote in that election.</p>