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A growing body of mortality research on immigrants has shown that the longer they live in the United States, the worse their rates of heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes.

Hidden from View: Migrant Labor in the Agricultural Heart of Florida : The New Yorker

They flee violent gangs, cross the desert, and when they get to the U.S., have to face a judge alone.

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Yesterday, the Pew Hispanic Center released updated numbers of unauthorized immigrants living in America. Wondering how these numbers are calculated, given that it is a more difficult population to assess?

ABC Univision has a plain-English explanation of our methodology, with help from Jeff Passel, senior demographer at the Pew Hispanic Center. “Back around 1980 or so the conventional wisdom of the time was there were 6 to 12 million unauthorized immigrants living in the country,” Passel tells ABC. “That was both very wide and very wrong.”

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Immigrant populations rose more than 60 percent in neighborhoods where immigrants made up fewer than 5 percent of the population in 2000, new census data show.

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Faith in the Five Boroughs documents the role that faith and religious communities play in the lives of immigrants and their children. It takes you inside New York’s churches, synagogues, mosques, temples and spaces for private prayer. It examines how the city shapes these religious communities and how, in turn, faith shapes the city.

Liliana Muñoz, 6, was alone when Border Patrol officers caught her as she was being smuggled across the Rio Grande. Now facing deportation, she’s also alone in Immigration Court without a lawyer.

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We Women Warriors is being presented at the DocuWeeks 2012 Screenings in NY August 10-16, and LA August 24-30.

By ARTURO CONDE

Philosophers have long struggled to find an explanation for some of life’s most complicated problems. But sometimes, the most profound truths can only be reached through the experience of being a mother.

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In Mexico state, violence against women has surged