Maryland awards $1.1 million for community health care
BY: Associated Press ANNAPOLIS — The Maryland Community Health Resources Commission is awarding $1.1 million to improve access to medical and dental care statewide. Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown announced the 15 awards Wednesday. Baltimore City tops the list, with three grants totaling $183,000. The largest is $109,000 to Catholic Charities’ Esperanza Center. The center provides services to new [...] |
Frederick County advances official-English proposal
BY: Associated Press FREDERICK — The Frederick County Commissioners are reviving an attempt to make English the county’s official language. The Frederick News-Post reports that board members voted 4-1 Thursday to hold a public hearing next month on the proposed ordinance. The commissioners passed a resolution in 2008 proclaiming English the county’s official language, but the action was [...] |
Immigration courtrooms reopening after ICE review
BY: Associated Press DENVER — In a trial of a politically divisive program, U.S. prosecutors in Baltimore and Denver are reviewing thousands of deportation cases to determine which illegal immigrants might stay in the country — perhaps indefinitely — so officials can reduce an overwhelming backlog by focusing mainly on detainees with criminal backgrounds or who are deemed [...] |
ICE nabs thousands with criminal pasts
BY: Associated Press WASHINGTON — After months of complaints from immigrant advocates, the Obama administration promised in August that immigration authorities would start focusing their scarce resources on finding and deporting serious criminals, and largely leave alone immigrants whose only offense was crossing the border illegally. To prove the point, more than 1,900 Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials [...] |
Maryland delegate seeks immigrant tuition referendum
BY: Associated Press HAGERSTOWN — A state delegate is trying to force a referendum on whether Maryland should allow illegal immigrants to pay in-state college tuition. Washington County Republican Neil Parrott said Wednesday that the measure recently approved by the General Assembly would make legal residents subsidize the education of illegal immigrants. Parrott says he has taken the [...] |
State by state, lawmakers fight illegal immigration
BY: Capital News Service  ANNAPOLIS — A group of state legislators from across the country are getting fed up with federal inaction on illegal immigration, so they’re taking it upon themselves to reform immigration law. Led by members of a group called State Legislators for Legal Immigration, their coordinated strategy, called “attrition through enforcement,” is designed to impose legislation [...] |
Maryland House to vote on immigrant tuition
BY: Associated Press ANNAPOLIS — The House of Delegates will be voting on a measure to allow illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition under certain conditions. The House is expected to vote on the bill Friday. The Senate already has passed the bill. The two houses will then have to work out some differences that the House has [...] |
Political summit to draw Maryland’s top leaders
BY: Associated Press COLLEGE PARK — Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller says there will be “a very tough battle” this year on legislation to allow children of illegal immigrants to receive in-state tuition to public colleges and universities. Miller said Monday during a political summit at the University of Maryland that the issue needs to be dealt [...] |
Maryland immigrants boast higher median income
BY: Capital News Service By 5 p.m. on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, only one customer had stopped into Joseph Pontes’ custom tailor shop in Bethesda. “We’re trying to keep our head above water,” said Pontes, 58, who moved to the United States from southern Portugal in the late 1960s. Pontes is one of more than 650,000 working-age foreign-born [...] |
Jack L.B. Gohn: Because they had no choice
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- State settles claim over drop-off near Potomac River dam
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- Law digest – 5/23/13
- Insurer wants out of civil suit against Huguely
- Despite win, former teacher still on sex offender registry
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- Hearing on water rate hike set for June
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- Poor accounting costs city $1.4 million
- TEDCO celebrates 15th anniversary at awards ceremony
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