That’s how many undocumented immigrants lived in the U.S. in March 2011, according to an estimate by the Pew Hispanic Center. That’s down from a peak of about 12 million in 2007, according to the center’s estimates. A bipartisan group...
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People attend an orientation class in filing up their application for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program at Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 11.1 Million
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A silver Jeep Cherokee that suspected smugglers were attempting to drive over the U.S.-Mexico border fence is stuck at the top of a makeshift ramp near Yuma, Arizona.
Immigration ‘Road-map:’ Bipartisan Senators Proposing a Path Today
Eight senators, four Democrats and four Republicans, today will announce a comprehensive framework for an overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws, including a “road-map” to citizenship for some of the 11 million undocumented immigrants already in the U.S. This is...
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Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, seen speaking at the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, is working with Senate Democrats on an immigration package.
Immigration: Obama, Senate Leaders Pushing Reforms at ‘Starting Gate’
Senate Democrats plan to put forward an immigration proposal next week, with President Barack Obama telling Hispanic lawmakers that he intends to push legislation as quickly as possible. Obama will begin a public campaign to build support for an immigration...
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John Kerry, navy lieutenant who was wounded three times in Vietnam and who has won the silver star for heroism, speaks to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on behalf of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) on Capitol Hill on April 22, 1971.
John Kerry Reporting for State Duty
John Kerry has been in training for this for some time, his friends say. The senior senator from Massachusetts, appearing before the committee he chairs today for confirmation of his nomination as secretary of state, first appeared there as a...
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton takes her seat on on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Jan. 23, 2013, prior to testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the deadly September attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
Hillary Clinton Not Going ‘Gently From the World Stage’
Updated at 11:05 and 11:20 am EST Hillary Clinton is taking what could be her final public stage for a few years, today facing questions about what she knew and when she knew it about the attacks on the U.S....
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President Barack Obama announces his nomination of former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, center, as the new Defense Secretary, next to current Defense Secretary, Leon Panetta, left.
Sergeant Hagel: `No Political Future’ — Merely Historic Pentagon Nominee
Chuck Hagel, the president notes, stands to become the first enlisted man to serve as secretary of defense. If confirmed by the Senate where he once served with his brother, he’ll be one of few secretaries who have been wounded...
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US President Barack Obama makes a statement about fiscal cliff negotiations from the White House December 31, 2012 in Washington, DC.
Obama Laugh Lines Spur Attack from McCain, Other Republicans
Can relations between Barack Obama’s White House and Republicans get even worse? It appears so, even as it also appears that talks between a couple of old Washington hands — Vice President Joe Biden and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell...
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Senator John Kerry, a Democrat from Massachusetts, during day three of the Democratic National Convention.
Kerry’s Moment: A Listening Tour
John Kerry came to the back of the 2004 campaign plane, where some reporters were milling in the aisle. We were having a mundane conversation about the way we connect our traveling laptop computers with the home office. The lanky...
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Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., center, and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., right, at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Nov. 14, 2012, stating they'd block the nomination Susan Rice as Secretary of State. Photographer: J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo
Obama to McCain: `Go After Me’
President Barack Obama had some fighting words today for the senator he faced in 2008: If Sen. John McCain and allied Republican Lindsey Graham want to complain about the administration’s handling of the attack against the U.S. diplomatic post in...
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Supporters of President Barack Obama pose for a picture as they gather outside the White House in Washington, D.C., to celebrate Obama's re-election, on Nov. 6, 2012.
Obama’s Gender Gap No. 1: Gallup
President Barack Obama’s re-election benefited from the largest gender gap in the Gallup Poll’s 60 years of measuring the vote among men and women. Obama won among women by 12 points, by 56-44 percent, and lost to Republican nominee Mitt...
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