Caribbean american passport news magazine november issue

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Sweet Soul of the 70’s with Cuba Gooding

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Obama plans to protect 5 million from deportation & unite immigrant families By Gail S. Seeram, LL.M, JD, BBA Law Offices of Gail S. Seeram/ Immigration Law Firm

uba Gooding, long-time lead vocalist of the legendary Grammy-nominated R&B/pop ensemble The Main Ingredient, will present two Sweet Soul of the 70s concerts at the Bob Carr Performing Arts Center in downtown Orlando on Thursday, Nov. 20 and Friday, Nov. 21, 2014. Both shows begin at 7:30 p.m. Artists that will perform include, Cuba Gooding & The Main Ingredient (Everybody Plays the Fool), Peaches & Herb (Reunited), Bloodstone (Natural High), Delfonics (La La Means I Love You), and Harold Melvin’s Blue Notes (The Love We Had). Tickets are $80, $120, and $150 (VIP) and will go on sale Oct. 3. A portion of the proceeds from both concerts will be donated to Florida A&M University and Bethune-Cookman University. Both schools’ football teams will battle that weekend in the famed Florida Classic. Partnering with Gooding to promote the

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protect up to five (5) million undocumented immigrants from the threat of deportation and provide them with work permits. A key component of his executive action plan will be to refocus the activities of the government’s 12,000 immigration and custom enforcement agents (who oversee deportation). President Obama’s executive action plan will allow many parents of children who are U.S. citizens or legal residents to also obtain work permits and elimi-

he loss by democrats during the mid-term elections has not stopped President Obama from moving forward with his immigration agenda. On Thursday, November 13, 2014, President Obama announced that he will soon unveil his plan for executive action that will overhaul the nation’s immigration enforcement system and

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Haitian American elected Senator By NAN Political Editor Haitian-American female Republican Conser vative from Utah crashed through the racial and glass ceilings and into U.S. history books Tuesday night, be coming not just the first Caribbean Amer-ican and black person to win a Utah congressional seat but the first black and Caribbean American Republican to win a congressional seat and the first black and Caribbean American woman ever to become a U.S. Senator.

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