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1. Are ‘The Real Housewives of New Jersey’ replacing Dina Manzo with Elvira Grau?
(Entertainment/Movies)

... immigrant and creator of 2 of the hottest entertainment venues in N.J., will now be sharing the small screen with the cast of socialites. Grau, who came to America at the age of 9, has been quoted saying ...

2. Gov. Bill Richardson says New Mexico has a sensible immigration policy
(U.S./Nation)

... --- with my declaring a border emergency, having National Guard constantly at the border --- and a sensible immigration policy that has included licenses for undocumented workers and scholarships for immigrant ...

3. A conversation with retired William Paterson University history professor Joseph Brandes
(Life/Style)

... is the author of a fascinating book that has just been re-published: "Immigrants to Freedom: Jews as Yankee Farmers! (1880's to 1960's)." The book tells of 400 Jews from Eastern Europe who in the 1880s ...

4. ACLU-NJ celebrates 50 years
(Life/Style)

... secret detentions and organized locally, fending off attempts to chip away at individual rights following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Defeated local laws written to exclude immigrants from ...

5. President Obama on the BP oil spill in the Gulf (VIDEO)
(U.S./Nation)

... take part in a tradition that was brought to America long ago by fishing immigrants from Europe. It's called "The Blessing of the Fleet," and today it's a celebration where clergy from different religions ...

6. Interracial marriages in U.S. double
(Life/Style)

... weakening of longstanding cultural taboos against intermarriage and in part by a large, multi-decade wave of immigrants from Latin America and Asia. In 1961, the year Barack Obama's parents were married, ...

7. Actor Jon Seda felt special connection to World War II hero John Basilone, in HBO’s ‘The Pacific’
(Entertainment/Movies)

... movie "Selena," was also well aware that Basilone was from New Jersey. The Marine sergeant hero was raised in Raritan Borough, one of 10 children of Italian immigrant parents, while Seda hailed from Clifton. ...

8. ‘Trenton Lights’ at Passage Theatre: A review
(Entertainment/Movies)

... it will be so with "Trenton Lights." June Ballinger has stated that "Trenton has always been a city of immigrants and it continues to be. People who came here and continue to come here because they believe ...

9. Latinos troubled by Obama sending troops to U.S.-Mexico border
(U.S./Nation)

... the number of undocumented immigrants in the United States has declined," stated Brent Wilkes, LULAC National Executive Director. "However, instead of following through on their promise of comprehensive ...

10. Harvard graduates taking the road less traveled
(U.S./Nation)

... at a community center for Vietnamese immigrants in nearby Dorchester, Massachusetts as a freshman. Later, she directed a summer camp for the community's children. Ranucci admits that, as a naive 18 year ...

11. How did previous immigrants become citizens
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

I am a little confused. Didn't early immigrants take care of all paper work at the port of entry regardless of how they found themselves at the port of entry. As far as I know, immigration guidelines were ...

12. Immigrants, illegal and legal
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

I am not in favor of support this ID card for Illegal immigrants; for most Americans, all our ancestors were immigrants at one time or another. My earliest ancestors escaped religious persucution in England ...

13. Groups file suit against Arizona’s new immigration law
(U.S./Nation)

... in 2002, the opinion from the DOJ's influential Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) concludes that state police officers have "inherent power" to arrest undocumented immigrants for violating federal law. The ...

14. Illegal immigrant ID cards issued in 3 N.J. cities
(N.J./State)

... or issue photo identification cards to illegal immigrants. May 22 is when advocates for immigrants, with the consent of the borough and the township, will begin issuing such cards to residents who are ...

15. Morristown's Macculloch Hall hosting Thomas Nast exhibit
(Entertainment/Movies)

... and Hayes ended Reconstruction. Increasingly, Nast found himself out of step with public opinion. Always virulently anti-Catholic, he caricatured Irish immigrants with ape-like features, even as they ...

16. N.J. Sen. Menendez wants MLB to boycott Arizona, site of 2011 All-Star Game
(U.S./Nation)

... into law by requiring police to question anyone who appears to be in the country illegally," Menendez wrote, the Associated Press reported. The law in question requires immigrants in Arizona to carry ...

17. Arizona immigration law: Sowing seeds of tyranny
(Opinion/Commentary)

... during the last decade, and is now on the decline, in tandem with U.S. labor demands. Last year, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials imprisoned and deported a record 380,000 immigrants, ...

18. How the immigration issue plays out locally in New Jersey
(N.J./State)

... proof of legal residency or citizenship of people they believe may be in the United States illegally. Arizona's new law has drawn considerable criticism from immigrant rights organizations, neighboring ...

19. Off-Broadstreet Theatre brings the laughs with ‘Tom, Dick and Harry’ — Review
(Entertainment/Movies)

... and daughter illegal immigrant couple adding to the mayhem. Like all of playwright Cooney's farces, the pace of this one is hectic. We meet Tom Kerwood (Brady Dunbar Niederer) who with his wife, Linda ...

20. ‘Jersey Shore’ passed on Jennifer Lopez’s broke ex
(Entertainment/Movies)

... off of handouts from family members in order to survive. Noa, who was married to Lopez from February 1997 until January 1998, is a Cuban immigrant who met Senora Lopez while he was a waiter. The talented ...