Wednesday, June 5th, 2013
By Esther Yu-Hsi Lee, Think Progress A white nationalist famed for creating influential immigration-restrictionist groups is bankrolling a black anti-immigration march set to take place on July 15 of this year. John Tanton — a man who has declared his preference for whites and published articles by racist writers who have referred to black Americans as “a retrograde species of
Tuesday, June 4th, 2013
By Cuéntame NEW ORLEANS – The Common Application, Inc. issued a formal apology to the undocumented American community for years of discrimination and announced that it is taking the necessary steps to end discrimination against undocumented students, impacting...
Tuesday, June 4th, 2013
By Barbara Mujica, Huffington Post One aspect of the proposed immigration reform that has attracted little attention is the requirement that applicants for legal status show proficiency in English. The issue should be central to the discussion, because...
Tuesday, June 4th, 2013
By Pili Tobar, Latino Decisions Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and other Republican Senators are making it clear that they need to see even more enforcement and a tougher path to citizenship in this compromise legislation. This is raising concerns that the GOP will upset the...
Monday, June 3rd, 2013
By Fox News Latino One member of the “Gang of Eight” is predicting comprehensive immigration reform will overwhelmingly pass the Senate by July 4 while House Republicans cautioned that they would write their own version, one piece at...
Monday, June 3rd, 2013
By Alexia Shurmur, Reuters (Reuters) – Nevada’s Republican governor signed a bill on Friday to authorize driving privilege cards for illegal immigrants in an action that is likely to win favor in the state’s large and growing...
Friday, May 31st, 2013
By Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times TUCSON — Despite a recent court ruling that the department run by Maricopa County’s top cop used racial profiling in his quest to crack down on illegal immigration, a recall effort...
Friday, May 31st, 2013
By Aaron Blake, Washington Post Poll after poll shows a strong majority of Americans — upward of two-thirds, in some polls — support a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. So how could anybody vote against it? The...
Friday, May 31st, 2013
By Lois Romano, Politico For forty-eight hours last week, a highly coordinated virtual “iMarch” on Washington promoting immigration reform swamped Twitter, generating thousands of tweets that landed more than a half billion times, according to organizers, making it among the...
Thursday, May 30th, 2013
By Sabrina Tavernise, The New York Times Immigrants have contributed billions of dollars more to Medicare in recent years than the program has paid out on their behalf, according to a new study, a pattern that goes...
Wednesday, May 29th, 2013
By Robert Lynch and Patrick Oakford, Center for American Progress …there are significant economic benefits to the U.S. economy and to all Americans when unauthorized immigrants acquire provisional legal status. Our prior research in a Center for American...
Wednesday, May 29th, 2013
By Jacques Billeaud, Associated Press/San Francisco Chronicle PHOENIX (AP) — Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio was dealt a heavy blow when a federal judge imposed a long list of restrictions on his trademark immigration patrols, crimping his yearslong crackdown...
Tuesday, May 28th, 2013
By The Editorial Board, New York Times Those who view fixing immigration as simply a matter of getting tougher on lawbreakers tend to overlook how tough the system already is, an ever-growing web of agents, cops, courts...
Tuesday, May 28th, 2013
By Alfredo Gutierrez To the Editor: As a commentator for a daily Spanish-language talk show in Arizona, I met a steady stream of migrants from Mexico. They brought in IDs or family photos in the hopes of...
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