NYC Mayor Kicks Off Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week
Filed under: Fashion , News , Fashion Week (Left to right) Lincoln Center Chair Katherine Farley, IMG Chairman and CEO Ted Forstmann, Mayor Bloomberg and designer Diane von Furstenberg stand next to the the 1 subway train line, recently renamed “The Fashion Line.” Photo: Getty Images New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg didn’t take a private car or a cab to the official kick-off to Mercedes Benz Fashion Week. “I just took the Fashion Line,” the mayor said. In honor of Fashion Week’s new digs at Lincoln Center ( take a tour of the space here ), the city has officially renamed the 1-line subway the Fashion Line.
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NYC Mayor Kicks Off Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week
While many are jumping on the bandwagon assuming that repealing birthright citizenship for children born to illegal immigrants will surely decrease illegal immigration, a new report by the Migration Policy Institute released today said just the opposite: If birthright…
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A surprising effect of ending birthright citizenship
Eric Gay, APRuth Garcia, a mother of six from Monterry, Mexico, who crossed into the U.S. illegally about 14 years ago. The Associate Press has a story on the controversial issue of “birth tourism,” which has become tied into the…
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Report: ‘Birth tourism’ a tiny percentage of immigrant births
We had a story today about a new Pew Hispanic Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data that estimated the annual flow of illegal immigrants has dropped by about two-thirds since 2007. The center reported that an average of…
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Pew study championed by opposing sides in immigration debate
AP Photo/Guillermo AriasIn this photo taken July 11, street vendors walk at the beach in the fishermen village of Popotla, some 15 miles south from the U.S.-Mexico border, in Mexico. Gambling their lives, illegal immigrants are increasingly looking to…
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Illegal immigrants hitting high seas to come to U.S.
CHRISTOBAL PEREZ/HOUSTON CHRONICLEAcross the Mexican border a sign asks illegal immigrants not to expose themselves to the elements on the Tohono O’Odham Nation near Sells, Ariz. You could argue that America has never been more unwelcoming toward illegal immigrants…
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Deaths on Arizona border reaching record levels
A month ago, I asked a former boyfriend if he would lend me the letters I sent him while I was in Peace Corps . I had meant to photocopy these letters before I left Portland, but I ran out of time. I absolutely want you to keep them—they were written for you, I had said.
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A bundle of letter therapy
One year ago today, I moved to Grand Rapids, MI. My body was six pounds lighter, my hair was a foot longer, and I had no cavities. In one year’s time: I’ve finished three books and started six
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One year: A GR-versary assessment
A favorite that comes back to me these summer nights: He likes to tell them about fireflies. English girls don’t know about fireflies, which is about all Slothrop knows for sure about English girls. — Thomas Pynchon , Gravity’s Rainbow qmnonic on Flickr
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All that Slothrop knows for sure
I’m guessing there’s going to be some congressional hearings over this: The Obama administration, anticipating that Congress might not pass comprehensive immigration reform this year, is considering ways it could act without congressional approval to achieve many of the objectives…
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‘Back door amnesty plan’ in the works?
MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty ImagesSheriff’s deputies detain protesters who chained themselves together outside the offices of controversial Maricopa county sheriff Joe Arpaio in Phoenix today. Protestors and police in riot gear clashed in several downtown locations with demonstrations against a new…
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Battle rages on: Protesters arrested in Arizona
Here’s an interesting AP story about the growing popularity of ICE’s Secure Communities program, which is in place in Houston and the Harris County jails and is expanding throughout the country. Secure Communities runs fingerprint-based immigration history checks on all…
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Immigration screening program expands nationally
The latest armed citizen patrol to volunteer their services along the U.S.-Mexico border is the National Socialist Movement. As this CBS News report shows, this group of enthusiastic activists and former military soldiers are heavily armed with assault style…
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Armed neo-Nazi group patrols U.S.-Mexico border
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Visa-on-arrival has been granted since last month at two main international airports of Yangon and Mandalay to facilitate world tourists who were previously required to apply for the entry by transiting through Singapore and Thailand where Myanmar embassies are based. According to the official statistics, tourists arrivals in Myanmar hit 227,400 in the calendar year of 2009, up 25 percent compared with 2008, since the launch on new visa on arrival service on July 2010 Source: Asia Travel Visa Fan Page
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Myanmar Airports Support Visa on Arrival
Joshua Lott/Getty ImagesMaricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio in February 2009. The Washington Times has a story on Sheriff Joe Arpaio being “muzzled” by an animal advocacy’s group, which took issue with his plans to enforce Arizona’s immigration law and removed…
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Sheriff Arpaio in dog house over immigration law
Photo courtesy Eric Balderas, Boston GlobeEric Balderas, an aspiring cancer researcher, faces deportation to Mexico. The Boston Globe has a story today about a Harvard sophomore who was caught by immigration officials this week and now faces deportation: A…
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Harvard student from Texas targeted for deportation
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that legal immigrants can’t be deported solely for commiting minor drug offenses. The decision stems from the case of Jose Angel Carachuri-Rosendo, who has been represented by attorneys at the University of Houston Law Center….
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Supreme Court: No deportation for minor offenses
We had a story today on ICE’s plans to “soften” immigration detention conditions, primarily for low-risk detainees. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are preparing to roll out a series of changes at several privately owned immigration detention centers, including relaxing…
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The softer side of ICE detention: ‘free movement,’ bingo and cooking class
The Fair Immigration Reform Movement, the largest network of immigrant rights organizations in the country, just issued a statement calling for an immediate moratorium on deportations. From FIRM’s statement: President Obama has repeatedly promised to focus enforcement on criminal immigrants…
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A demand for moratorium on deportations