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The Migrant Heritage Commission wishes to heartily congratulate you for having been reelected.

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He lifted himself up by his bootstraps, created a good life and lived the American dream, but as Filipino reporter Jose Antonio Vargas, a Pulitzer Prize winner recalls it, “the more I achieved, the more scared and depressed I became.”

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The end of the year means a turnover of House control from Democratic to Republican and, with it, Congress' approach to immigration.

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Senate Republicans on Saturday doomed an effort that would have given hundreds of thousands of young illegal immigrants a path to legal status if they enrolled in college or joined the military.

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The illegal immigrants who more than a decade ago were just teens hoping to forge a legal path to citizenship are vowing to make the Dream Act a campaign issue come 2012, even though they'll likely be too old to benefit if the law ever passes.

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The Migrant Heritage Commission wishes to heartily congratulate you for having been reelected.

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