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    With Feds Stuck, States Tackle Immigration

    State lawmakers have taken widely divergent approaches to dealing with an influx of immigrants; some are rolling out welcome mats while others are slamming shut their doors.

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    Italians Most Worried About Immigration

    That’s the percentage of Italians who voice concern about immigration, the highest share of any of the publics in the latest Pew Global Attitudes 47-nation survey.

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    IV. Remittances, Property Ownership and Civic Activity

    Remittances, or the money sent by immigrants to relatives in their country of origin, are a topic of great interest because of the size of the financial flow. According to the Bank of Mexico, in 2006 Mexicans alone received $23 billion in family remittances, almost all of it dispatched from the U.S. Just over half […]

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    Liberal Talkers Cheer the “I” Word – and so Does Rush

    Dennis Kucinich’s call to impeach Vice President Cheney made nary a blip with the general media last week but it was a big story on in the talk media, especially on the left side of the talk radio dial. Meanwhile the many angles of the 2008 campaign gave everyone grist to talk about.

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    III. Communication

    The most common form of cross-border exchange is communication. And among the different forms of communication, telephone calls are by far the most prevalent. Three-quarters of foreign-born Hispanics call someone in their native land at least occasionally, and two-thirds do so at least once a month. About 41% call at least once a week, with […]

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    II. Survey of Latino Political Attitudes

    Partisan Allegiance Latinos in this country have historically identified more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party. Since the turn of this century, the GOP has been cutting into that partisan advantage—until now. Considering both those who identify with a given party and those who say they lean toward that party, Democrats in 1999 […]

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    The Pope Comes to America

    Washington, D.C. Pope Benedict XVI’s first visit to the U.S. as pontiff comes amid a turbulent election year. He has planned stops at the White House, the U.N. and the Sept. 11 “Ground Zero” site. How should we assess the first three years of Pope Benedict’s papacy? How has the global role and influence of […]

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    Appendix

    Measuring Broadband: Problems and Possibilities A Workshop at the DC Office ofThe Pew Research Center1615 L St St. NW, 7th FloorWashington DC June 28, 2006 Co-sponsored by Pew Internet & American Life ProjectUniversity of Texas at Austin, with support from the National Science FoundationMassachusetts Institute of Technology Communications infrastructure plays an increasingly important role in […]

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    An Impassioned Debate: An Overview of the Death Penalty in America

    (Updated June 26, 2008) In this article: The role of the courts Lethal injection and the Baze case Child rape and the Kennedy case The history of the death penalty The death penalty worldwide Few public policy issues have inflamed passions as consistently and as strongly as the debate over capital punishment. Religious communities have […]

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