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Arellano Deported

Monday, August 20th, 2007

If you were holed up in a church seeking sanctuary as an illegal immigrant–I mean, undocumented worker–wouldn’t leaving be the last thing you should do? Elvira Arellano has been deported to Mexico after leaving her sanctuary in a Chicago church. She’s been deported before, so who knows, she may make a repeat appearance in the [...]

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Oh, the Audacity of Hope!

Tuesday, January 16th, 2007

Barack Obama has long avoided any talk about a possible bid for the presidency. However, lately, he's been entertaining the idea a bit more openly. This morning he's gone one step further and filed papers to create a presidential exploratory committee. He plans on publicly announcing his decision to run (or not to run) on [...]

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