AP US History 2011-2012

President Barack Obama’s campaign and an outside “super PAC” supporting him are both airing TV ads in Michigan attacking Republicans over their opposition to the 2009 auto bailout. Both reprise former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s call to “let Detroit go bankrupt.”

Rubio, a man called the ‘crown prince of the Tea Party,’ has the stature in the GOP to win over enough Republicans in Congress to vote with Democrats and stop deportations of young people eligible for the DREAM Act.

DREAM Act that will halt deportation of young, undocumented immigrants who are currently in school or serving in the military – but will not grant them citizenship.

“Listen, I want nothing but success for Barack Obama.  It is not easy for me to challenge him, but I feel I need to, to make this a better nation and I feel that that’s my first and foremost responsibility, number one,“ Gutierrez said. In the past, Gutierrez has criticized the president for not issuing an executive order to halt the deportation of minors who meet the DREAM Act criteria. 

The high court on Monday unanimously ruled against Carlos Martinez Gutierrez, who wants to keep from being deported as a criminal immigrant.

McCain, who co-sponsored the DREAM Act in 2007, angered these activists by backing off during the 2008 election, saying he would not support it without tighter border controls.

families who live here illegally are "coming out" — marching behind banners that say "undocumented and unafraid," staging sit-ins in federal offices, and getting arrested in the most defiant ways

They are American in every way except on paper, they say. Why should they be branded, judged and punished?

the plan in broad terms, saying it would legalize undocumented children brought to the United States at an early age provided they have no criminal record and have completed high school. It would grant them “non-immigrant” visas, allowing them to stay in the country and access the existing immigration system through which they could eventually become green card holders or naturalized citizens.

the DREAM Act — which failed to overcome Republican opposition in a Democratic-controlled Congress in 2010 — would provide a direct pathway to citizenship by providing green cards to children seeking higher education or military service of at least two years. They also must have come to the U.S. before age 16, be under the age of 30, have lived in the country for five years, pass a criminal background test and have earned a high school diploma or GED. Beneficiaries could apply for citizenship after six years.

promised reform of Cuba’s migration rules that, for half a century, have controlled who can leave the island, who can return and how long they can be gone.

Any loosening of controls would be a step toward eliminating one of the most deeply resented restrictions on Cubans’ liberty and a milestone on President Raúl Castro’s gradual march toward economic and social reform. Cuban officials have hinted for years that a change might be coming, but the bureaucratic system limiting travel remains in place.

the reform could spur economic migration and deepen ties between the island and the two million members of the diaspora, whose money and business experience may be vital to the government’s plans to drastically enlarge the private sector.

The report, co-written with the Partnership for a New American Economy, describes current immigration policies as “irrational and undirected,”

U.S. faces a stalled economy and shortage of workers in growing innovation industries like science, technology and engineering without changes. Immigration roadblocks in the U.S. “send entrepreneurs to other countries, who are quick to welcome them,” the report said.

”We are not looking at the benefits of immigration. We have walked away from what made this country great.”

facing marital problems is reported to have rejected sending his children to Muslim organisations for care

But green projects, proposesd in the name of conserving resources, are really resources hogs

"emissions from increased production of internationally traded products have more than offset the emissions reductions achieved under Kyoto Protocol."  

a city known for beautiful beaches and wealthy residents, Mayor Marty Blum recalls black: the color of more than 3 million gallons of oil that flowed from a drilling rig blowout in 1969 and covered 35 miles of coastline with a thick layer of goo.

Alabama's governor on Friday signed legislation that he said will "simplify and clarify" the state's controversial anti-illegal immigration law, considered one of the country's toughest.

The new bill, HB 658, addresses some of its unintended consequences, including clarifying the types of documents that can serve as a form of official identification. But it does not address parts of the law that are at issue in federal courts.

Republican consulting firm.

allows us to use manufacturing capacity in Michigan rather than bringing in $1.6 billion worth of coal from West Virginia and Pennsylvania.

keeps dollars in our state and it keeps us at the cutting age of new types of manufacturing technology,”

it's clear that thousands of jobs have been created in the past few years. The Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry says industries related to natural-gas extraction directly and indirectly created just over 13,000 jobs in the state in 2010.

it's still easily the sector that is growing the fastest,"

Counties with 10 or more wells drilled in 2010 have seen their unemployment rates drop by more than half a percent on average during the past two years