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Immigration Debate Still Divides Hazleton

HAZLETON — The Hazleton Integration Project is home to kids from all backgrounds to learn and play together. Hazleton Integration Project’s founder ...
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HAZLETON -- The Hazleton Integration Project is home to kids from all backgrounds to learn and play together.

Hazleton Integration Project's founder Bob Curry say's he's disappointed with the Supreme Court's deadlock on immigration.

"They come for a better life for their children, better lives for their families better opportunities for them and if there's something wrong with that there's something wrong with the whole notion of who America is."

President Obama's plan would have have protected certain illegal immigrants from deportation and allow them to work legally.

The Supreme Court ruling leaves them in limbo.

Bob Curry says this split enforces the need to fill the vacancy in high court.

"Putting another supreme court justice on that court in either direction," says Curry "Just someone who is a clear thinker. That's going to be one of the biggest issues of the campaign."

Some folks in Hazleton were equally divided.

"It's absolutely ridiculous, why would you protect people who don't belong here says Tammy Lockwood of Hazleton "They don't pay taxes don't pay anything they get help from the government".

"I just don't understand," says Verdine Meyers of Hazleton, "I don't know how in this day in age people feel that way... We are all equal".

As for the Hazleton integration project, its gearing up for a summer program next month. Any child in kindergarten to eight grade is welcome.

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