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Young illegal immigrants
5:18 pm
Fri June 15, 2012

Mo. officials react to Pres. Obama's executive order on immigration

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A group of young people attended a pro-immigration rally at the Mo. Capitol on March 6th, 2012.
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President Barack Obama.
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Missouri officials are both praising and condemning President Obama’s executive order today that halts deportation of teenage and young adult illegal immigrants.

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Immigrant Rally
4:01 pm
Tue March 6, 2012

Rally at Mo. Capitol to oppose "anti-immigrant" bills

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About 300 people rallied outside the Mo. Capitol against 2 immigration-related bills.
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Vanessa Crawford, Exec. Dir. of MIRA, address the crowd outside the Mo. Capitol.
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Faizan Syed from the Mo. Chapter of CAIR adresses the crowd outside the Mo. Capitol.
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A group of students hold signs protesting SB 590 at a rally at the Mo. Capitol.
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Around 300 people rallied at the Missouri Capitol today to protest two bills backers say are designed to combat illegal immigration.

Rally leaders were especially critical of a Senate bill that would require all law officers to check the immigration status of those they stop, detain or arrest if they have a “reasonable suspicion” that they’re in the country illegally (SB 590).  Vanessa Crawford is Executive Director of the group Missouri Immigrant and Refugee Advocates.

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