ICE agents arrest high schooler hours before prom
ICE agents arrest high schooler hours before prom
*The first thought that came to my mind when I read this: ¡Que poca ma . . . ! VL By Michael P. McKinney and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon, AZ Central (3.5 minute […]
Does the “New Trump Era” have human selective breeding at its core? It’s not as crazy as it sounds.
By Victor Landa, NewsTaco (2.5 minute read) eff Sessions was at the U.S.-Mexico border yesterday. The Attorney General was in Nogales, Arizona, speaking to a group of Customs and […]
Trump doesn’t get that sanctuary cities are about providing public safety
By Victor Landa, NewsTaco (1.5 minute read) There’s a good editorial in the Chicago Tribune that takes Trump’s immigration plan to task. “Can President Donald Trump make America safer by taking money […]
Mayor Rahm Emanuel: ‘Chicago Always Will Be A Sanctuary City’
*There are lines being drawn in the sand all over the country. Trump says he will block federal funding to Sanctuary Cities. VL By Richard Gonzalez, NPR (2 minute read) […]
Trump starting to sound like Obama on immigration
*Another point Trump will have to face is the reality that, at most, there are 800,000 undocumented immigrants wth criminal records, not 2 or 3 million. VL By Alicia A. […]
Tim Kaine delivers Phoenix speech in Spanish on Latino voter impact, immigration
*Why stump in Arizona in Spanish? Because 13.2 percent of Arizona’s Latino vopters have already gone to the polls, that’s an increase from 2012. And because Real Clear Politics’ polling […]
Maria Hinojosa Breaks Down Why Saying ‘Illegals’ Is Wrong On So Many Levels
*She called-out a Trump surrogate for using the “i” word. It was epic. VL By Carolina Moreno, Huffington Post Latino Voices (2 minute read) Journalist Maria Hinojosa knows that words matter, particularly […]
Federal Government Is Running Out of Funds to Detain Illegal Immigrants
*Wait, what? It’s a political budget thing, and if ICE doesn’t get the money be early November they’ll have to set “newly captured illegal immigrants, including high-priority arrests at the border” […]
Overall Number of U.S. Unauthorized Immigrants Holds Steady Since 2009
*No change in the number of undocumented since 2009. Mexicans are still 52% of the undocumented in the U.S. VL By Jeffrey S. Passel and D’Vera Cohn, Pew Research Center The […]
Undocumented Central American Immigration Surges Again at U.S. Border
*This is going to play into presidential politics, soon. VL By Eleanor Dearman, Texas Tribune (3 minute read) For the second time in three years, the U.S. Border Patrol is […]