Immigration protests may not spur votes
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Immigration protests that drew hundreds of thousands of flag-waving demonstrators to the nation's streets last spring promised a potent political legacy &#151; a surge of new Hispanic voters.
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The legal question that has dominated court fights over the coming election &#151; the fate of voters who mistakenly try to vote outside their home precinct &#151; appears nearly settled.
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Most limit such voting to local elections and legal immigrants. But state legislatures often intercede.
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Hordes of angry opposition supporters have been tramping through the capital since a disputed weekend presidential runoff election, but the protests are marked by a peculiar civility. Strong words have not boiled over into harsh actions.
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The House voted Wednesday to require Americans to show proof of citizenship in order to vote, and the Senate moved to build a 700-mile fence along the Mexican border as Republicans sharpened attacks on illegal immigration before the midterm elections.
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Proponents of a broad immigration measure narrowly beat back potentially fatal challenges Thursday, including an effort to phase out the temporary worker program
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Some say strict measures endanger ecosystems, but others say those concerns are excuses for pro-immigrant sentiment
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Ballots are still being counted to determine who will be Washington state's next governor, but if residents are getting antsy, they're not showing it.
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US senators fail to proceed to an early vote on a landmark immigration bill, in effect scuppering the measure.
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House Republicans seeking to build a pre-election record for getting tough on illegal immigration plan a new vote Thursday on a border fence proposal that won House approval last December.
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Doubt grew Tuesday over the fate of a crucial US Senate bill which grants a path to citizenship for around 12 million illegal immigrants, as partisan sniping broke out over the timing of votes.
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Voters living abroad face an unwieldy system of absentee balloting that could prevent their votes from being counted.
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Not that they're worried or anything. But the White House evidently leaves little to chance when it comes to protests within eyesight of the president. As in, it doesn't want any.
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Despite bipartisan opposition backed by religious and business leaders, Arizonans look set to carry an anti-immigrant ballot initiative
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Most Americans believe illegal immigrants should be allowed to become guest workers and eventually U.S. citizens, but Congress should do more to close the border to stop more illegals entering the country, according to a new poll published on Tuesday.
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The Senate&#039;s effort to curb illegal immigration involves the hiring of 14,000 Border Patrol agents, more detention centers to hold illegal immigrants and 370 miles of fencing. But those get-tough provisions aren&#039;t generating much support from a key GOP lawmaker in the House &amp;#151; at least not when combined with a provision that would allow millions of illegal immigrants already in the country a chance to become U.S. citizens.
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Making it easier to deport immigrants seeking political asylum will get a vote in the House this week, a few days after a federal commission said that many of them already are being treated like criminals.