Immigration

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Immigrants Are Saving the Italian Market

The millennials get all the press whenever Philadelphia’s population growth comes up, but the city’s booming immigrant communities are actually doing as much or more to […]

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Nutter Joins Mayors Backing Obama on Immigration

Mayor Nutter has joined with mayors of two dozen other large American cities to offer President Obama support in his efforts to reduce deportations of […]

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Daryl Metcalfe’s Bad Religion

Let’s give this to Daryl Metcalfe: If you wanted to create a religious-right bogeyman that almost perfectly fit the fevered nightmares of liberals, he’d pretty […]

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Darryl Metcalfe Moves to Block Immigrant Children from Pennsylvania

You’ve probably heard by now about all those immigrant children who have arrived at America’s southern border this year. Rep. Darryl Metcalfe has, and he […]

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Activists: Immigration Enforcement Shifting to Philly Suburbs

Immigration authorities have moved the bulk of their enforcement activities to the suburbs since Mayor Nutter ended cooperation with the feds during the spring, an […]

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Chris Christie, In Mexico, Doesn’t Want to Talk Immigration

Gov. Chris Christie is in Mexico this week — ostensibly on a trade mission, but probably also burnishing his presidential credentials — but there’s one […]

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Lancaster County to Host Refugee Center

More than 300 refugees — from Burma, Cuba, Somalia, and Bhutan — settled in Lancaster County during the first six months of 2014; now plans […]

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Pa. Republicans Now Afraid Immigrant Kids Are Gang Members

Remember when Gov. Tom Corbett worried that immigrant kids coming north from drug-war-torn countries south of the border might bring diseases with them? Remember how […]

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Jersey Bearing Brunt of Immigrant Child Influx

AP reports that New Jersey is one of the top states receiving children from the recent influx of  immigrants from south of the border.

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Pa. Children’s Home Will Take Immigrant Children

Just days after Gov. Corbett openly wondered if the influx of immigrant children might bring disease to Pennsylvania, another institution has agreed to house some […]

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Corbett Not Ready to Welcome Immigrant Kids

Gov. Tom Corbett says he’s not a fan of bringing to Pennsylvania some of the influx of immigrant children crossing the border  — he’s worried […]

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Interview: Adam Solow on the Immigration Crisis

The debate over illegal immigration has taken a new turn in recent months, as thousands of unaccompanied children from Central America have appeared at the […]

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Crisis May Result in New PA Immigration Center

The Scranton Times-Tribune reports that an empty hotel in Hazleton may be used to house some of the thousands of unaccompanied, undocumented children who have […]

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Alleged Rittenhouse Rapist Moves to Center of Immigration Debate

The man accused of raping a 26-year-old Philadelphia woman at her Spruce Street home last month is becoming a conservative cause célébre. Because Mayor Nutter this […]

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Immigrants Seek PA Driver’s Licenses

The Patriot-News reports: “With discussions of comprehensive immigration reform stalled, if not dead, in Congress, a group of undocumented immigrants rallied at the state Capitol […]