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Members of San Diego, Calif.-based Border Angels have launched a three-week, cross-country caravan in support of immigrant rights that made a pit stop in San Antonio on Friday afternoon and is moving toward Victoria. The group staged a rally at Milam Park downtown to protest increasing number of migrants who die during illegal border crossings. Activists called for immigration policy reform, favoring laws that would make it easier for migrants to obtain legal work and residency in the United States. The Border Angels caravan now moves to Victoria, site of the nation's deadliest known border crossing, when 19 migrants suffocated...

A Bay Area group that supports immigrant workers and opposes citizens who take it upon themselves to patrol the US border with Mexico held a rally Sunday in San Francisco's Mission District to welcome a caravan of migrant worker activists on a 25 city national tour. From San Francisco, the group will travel to Sacramento, then on, across the country, eventually to the nation's capitol where they will lobby legislators to oppose the proposed Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005 or HR 4437. That bill would expand enforcement of undocumented border crossings and toughen penalties for...

The grand purpose of Newsbusters is to present examples of provable factual bias in the mainstream media (MSM). This article does not do that. Instead, it presents an example of the MSM, specifically MSNBC, running a program on illegal immigration, which is scrupulously honest, fair and balanced. I almost did not watch “Crossing the Line? The Battle at America’s Borders” because I thought this documentary, hosted by Lester Holt, would be the usual “pity the (illegal) immigrants and let them all in because they just want jobs” pabulum that the press usually generates. Five minutes in, it was clearly no...