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	<description>Redefining the Meaning of TRUE Immigration Reform</description>
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		<title>House Passes VAWA, GOP Leaders Cave on Immigration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday evening, the House passed its version of the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act (VAWA), H.R. 4970, in a close 222-205 vote. As introduced, H.R. 4970 would have taken steps to make the U visa a true non-immigrant visa. First, the original bill would have removed a provision from federal law that allows U [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://immigrationreform.com/2012/05/17/house-passes-vawa-gop-leaders-cave-on-immigration/</link>
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		<title>House Passes Important Immigration Measures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following story appeared in FAIR&#8217;s May 14 Legislative Update. To subscribe to FAIR&#8217;s Legislative Update click here. Last Thursday, the House of Representatives passed several key immigration measures as part of broader bills. First, the House adopted an amendment to H.R. 5326, the FY 2013 spending bill for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://immigrationreform.com/2012/05/16/house-passes-important-immigration-measures/</link>
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		<title>Mass Immigration May End the Careers of Two Mass Immigration Politicians</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“The revolution, like Saturn, devours its own children,” observed Georges-Jacques Danton, a leading figure of the French revolution. Danton had good reason to feel that way, as the executioner’s guillotine was about to separate him from his head for the “crime” of being too moderate as the revolution turned increasingly bloody. Howard Berman and Charles [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://immigrationreform.com/2012/05/15/mass-immigration-may-end-the-careers-of-two-mass-immigration-politicians/</link>
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		<title>‘Moats,’ ‘Alligators,’ and the Politics of Border Security</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mexico’s drug cartels have been battling each other in a furious, violent, and bloody war that has been going on for the past decade. After a lull in the fighting during the late 1990s, the violence has steadily worsened since 2000. The violence is at its worst right along Mexico’s northern border with the United [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://immigrationreform.com/2012/05/14/%e2%80%98moats%e2%80%99-%e2%80%98alligators%e2%80%99-and-the-politics-of-border-security/</link>
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		<title>The Cost of Sanctuary Policies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent criminal case in California highlights the human costs of looking the other way when illegal aliens are apprehended and then turned loose rather than being placed on deportation proceedings. Marcos Lopez Garcia, an illegal alien, pled guilty to manslaughter in a hit-and-run case that killed a 4-year-old in Santa Rosa, California, in August [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://immigrationreform.com/2012/05/14/the-cost-of-sanctuary-policies/</link>
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		<title>A New Border Patrol Strategy?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Border Patrol Chief Mike Fisher defended in a Congressional hearing on May 8 a new border control strategy plan. According to an Associated Press report, “Fisher was repeatedly asked why the new strategy didn&#8217;t include any specific &#8216;metrics&#8217; that could help members of Congress and the public better understand if the border is secure.” That [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://immigrationreform.com/2012/05/10/a-new-border-patrol-strategy/</link>
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