“Why Minority Births Now Outnumber White Births”
Births among minority groups, mainly Latinos, now outnumber births among whites – a result of immigration and birth rates.
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“Supreme Court mostly rejects Arizona immigration law; gov says ‘heart’ remains”
In June 2012, the Supreme Court ruled that key parts of Arizona’s strict 2010 immigration law were unconstitutional. Still, Gov. Jan Brewer noted that the decision left intact one of the law’s most important provisions: that police have the right to check a person’s immigration status in the course of enforcing other laws.
“Americans More Positive About Immigration”
A Gallup poll released in June 2012 found Americans a bit more positive about immigration than in the recent past.
“Stateline Headlines: Immigration”
The Pew Center on the States’ Stateline website tracks immigration news at the state level.
“New ad pits African-Americans against immigrants”
See an Oct. 3, 2012, video and story at TheHill.com about an ad that appears to pit African-Americans against immigrants.
“Hate Map”
The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups and domestic terrorism, says there were more than 1,000 hate groups in the United States in 2012. These groups often have a religious element to their agendas.
“Building Mosques, Importing Jihad”
Read an interview at BeliefNet with Brian Glynn Williams, a historian of Islam, who says that “Islam is not the driving machine behind the Chechen resistance.”
“Why terrorist bombings have been rare in U.S. in past decade”
Read an April 17 column at CNN on the decline in the number of bombings in the U.S. in recent years and who has been behind the earlier attacks.
“What to Read Now on Chechnya: The best background info on the Boston suspects”
The New Republic has a site with links to key background resources on Chechnya and the role it may have played in the lives of the Tsarnaev brothers.