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Stephen Magagnini

Change.org website prompts social action across the globe

Last updated Tuesday, July 5, 2011 - 3:07pm

SAN FRANCISCO -- A block from where the San Francisco Giants play baseball at AT&T Park, a team of social media engineers in jeans and T-shirts is helping activists from more than 100 countries try to change the world.

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Immigrants' 'millionaire visas' fuel U.S. job growth

Stephen Magagnini, The Sacramento Bee

Last updated Monday, March 21, 2011 - 11:39am

McClellan Air Force Base lost 12,000 jobs when it closed in 2001 along with 29 other California military bases.

Today 15,000 people work at McClellan Business Park, a residential and industrial development in Sacramento County, thanks partly to $18 million invested by 36 immigrants looking for a quick path to U.S. residency. The investors -- from China, Mexico and an array of other countries -- have applied for EB5 visas, sometimes called "millionaire visas."

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Drug violence in Mexico threatens holiday travel for immigrants

Sacramento Bee, Stephen Magagnini

Last updated Sunday, December 12, 2010 - 2:46pm

The annual Mexican Christmas pilgrimage, traditionally a joyous journey culminating in pozole stew and Nativity re-enactments, is now fraught with fear and foreboding.

About a million Mexican immigrants are expected to return from the United States to Mexico this month to share the holidays with relatives they left behind years ago.

Most are driving. And many, including Sacramento State freshman Alex Rodriguez, wonder if they'll make it to Christmas dinner without being robbed, shot or kidnapped.

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