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El matrimonio conformado por Lola Retondo de Spaini y Alberto Spaini tiene más de un secreto que guardar. Pero tarde o temprano la verdad comienza a saberse. El primero de los secretos (quizás el más grave) es que el mayor de los hijos del matrimonio Spaini-Retondo fue ilegalmente apropiado de una pareja de desaparecidos gracias a sus contactos con la cúpula militar local de ese entonces....

Many grassroots immigrant rights groups outside Washington, D.C., say that failure to pass any immigration reform is better than any possible combination of the current House and Senate immigration bills. David Bacon is an associate editor at New America Media and author of "The Children of NAFTA" (University of California Press, 2004). He sits on the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Committee of the Bay Area Immigrant Rights Coalition....

When: Friday, May 26, 2006 at 10:00AM Where: In front of Senator Dianne Feinstein’s office – 1 Post Street, San Francisco...

The Senate version of the immigration bill is expected to be voted on as early as today. While the bill is being hailed as a compromise solution to immigration, many immigrant advocates point to a number of adverse provisions in the bill that they say will actually bar millions from legalization and threaten their civil liberties....

The motion to cut off what has been protracted debate was made by Republican Senate majority leader Bill Frist and approved on a 73-25 vote....

The Senate voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to limit debate on election-year immigration legislation, clearing the way for final passage later this week of a bill that calls for tougher border security as well as an eventual chance at citizenship for millions of men and women in the country illegally....

Olina Calderón y Ana Corea celebraron el día de las madres luchando por sus hijos, quienes podrían ser deportados por el Servicio de Inmigración de los Estados Unidos. A Olina el gobierno pretende arrancar de su lado a Gerson, 20, y Oscar, 17, un par de jóvenes espigados quienes se han adaptado sin complicaciones en Oakland, donde vislumbran un mejor futuro que en su natal y pobre Honduras. Ámbos muchachos fueron detenidos por la patrulla fronteriza, en el desierto de Arizona, junto con otros...

Philippine activist lawmaker Rep. Crispin Beltran recently filed House Resolution 1263 urging the Philippine government to support the call of millions of Filipinos and migrants of other nationalities in the US and actively oppose the passage of the racist and repressive Sensenbrenner-King bill and other similar proposals....

Long before the Senate adopted a measure that would make English the national language of the United States, Pueng Vongs' immigrant parents imposed an "English Only" rule within her family. Vongs, an editor with New America Media, says that instead of helping, speaking English exclusively deprived her family of intimacy....

LA's South Central Farm is asking for people to come to the 14 acre community garden (41st/Alameda) AS SOON AS POSSIBLE....