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In this Wednesday, June 12, 2013 photo, brothers Jorge Tume, left, and Francis Tume are shown in Miami. Tume’s parents brought them to the U.S. from Peru on tourist visas when they were young and decided to stay, becoming unauthorized immigrants with no legal status. Now, one year after President Barack Obama announced an executive order allowing young people living in the U.S. illegally to stay and work, nearly 300,000 young adults previously living illegally in the United States have been granted permission to stay and work through the program, the most significant shift in immigration policy in recent decades. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

For young immigrants, a delayed coming of age

As a child, Jorge Tume used to sit and do homework as his parents cleaned the desks and floors of a concrete company in Miami. When he was done, he'd take out the trash and help finish cleaning. Tume's parents brought him to the U.S. from Peru with his younger ...

Recent editorials published in Nebraska newspapers

Lincoln Journal Star. June 15, 2013. Use common sense on immigration Remember what Sen. Mike Johanns said about the farm bill, stalled in Congress now for long months? When the Senate passed its version of the legislation, again, Johanns allowed as to how the bill was not the one he ...

FILE - In this March 5, 2013 file photo, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J. speaks in Washington. Menendez, on Sunday June 13, 2013 said "there'll never be a road to the White House for the Republican Party" if immigration overhaul fails to pass. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Immigration bill could decide 2016, senator says

Republicans' hopes to reclaim the White House in the 2016 elections hinge on whether they support — or sabotage — the immigration overhaul being debated in the Senate, two lawmakers who helped write the proposal warn. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on Sunday told conservatives who are trying to block the ...

Ottawa restaurant focus of investigation

A restaurant in northeast Kansas is the focus of an investigation by federal immigration officials. The Lawrence Journal-World reports (http://bit.ly/1afyWSk ) that the El Mezcal Mexican restaurant in Ottawa was closed Friday amid an investigation by Homeland Security Investigations, a branch of the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. Shawn ...

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Tax, trade and Syria on menu as UK's Cameron rallies world leaders to G-8 summit in N.Ireland ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland (AP) — British Prime Minister David Cameron says leaders gathering Monday for the G-8 summit in Northern Ireland should reach speedy agreement on trade and tax reforms, and draw inspiration ...

Bloomberg advises grads on immigration reform

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg used his platform as Stanford University's commencement speaker on Sunday to lobby for an immigration reform plan that allows foreign students to remain in the United States after they graduate. Standing before a packed Stanford Stadium on Sunday, Bloomberg noted that about 30 percent of ...

Graham: Without immigration, GOP to fail in 2016

Republicans are "in a demographic death spiral" and will fail in their effort to win the presidency if the party blocks an immigration overhaul, a leading GOP senator said Sunday. Sen. Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican who helped write a bipartisan immigration bill under debate in the Senate, said ...

UK police: 5 from diverted plane claim asylum

Five passengers from an EgyptAir flight diverted to a Scottish airport over an apparent threat to destroy the aircraft are now seeking asylum in Britain, authorities said Sunday. New York-bound Flight 985 from Cairo was forced to make an emergency landing on Saturday after a threatening note was found in ...

Shock lingers after Nazi unit leader found in US

The revelation that a former commander of a Nazi SS-led military unit has lived quietly in Minneapolis for the past six decades came as a shock to those who know 94-year-old Michael Karkoc. World War II survivors in both the U.S. and Europe harshly condemned the news and prosecutors in ...

In this undated photo provided by Peter Soros, Paul Soros is shown. Soros, a successful port engineer and older brother to billionaire financier George Soros, has died in New York City. He was 87. (AP Photo) NO SALES

Shipping magnate Paul Soros dies in NYC at 87

Paul Soros, a successful innovator in shipping, philanthropist and the older brother of billionaire financier George Soros, died in New York City on Saturday after a long bout with a host of illnesses, said his son Peter Soros. He was 87. Soros, an engineer and businessman, founded Soros Associates, a ...

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