Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Congressman Gutierrez Praises Obama for Change in Deportation Policy

Seeds of progress: How urban farming is changing Detroit’s future


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The Restore Refill Station: reuse plastic bottles



Shift in U.S. deportation policy provides reprieve for immigrant youth, same-sex couples

In a turnaround last week, the federal government  announced a new policy that offers a reprieve from deportation for thousands of undocumented immigrants. The  policy, which Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced Thursday, would shift the government’s deportation priorities to focus primarily on those who pose a threat to national security or public safety, and to put less emphasis on deporting undocumented immigrants with clean criminal records. Under these new terms, the government will reassess some 300,000 pending deportation cases and review them on a case-by-case basis.

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