In anticipation of yesterday's meeting with President Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, the Obama Administration announced policy changes earlier this week designed to make it easier for foreign entrepreneurs' to come and live in the U.S. Continue »
Rep. Elton Gallegly's hometown paper, the Ventura County Star, editorialized in support of Californian's DREAM Act and noted the failure of federal authorities to deal with this issue. Gallegly is one of the federal authorities who deserves a lot of the blame. Continue »
Here's a question: how many border agents does it take to the protect the border? The real-life answer is that we'll never find out because apparently, a significant number of them have been known to fall asleep on the job. Continue »
The Department of Justice is putting a stop to the madness in Alabama, and is challenging the state's very anti-immigrant law, HB 56. From the press release yesterday: "Today's action makes clear that setting immigration policy and enforcing immigration laws is a national responsibility that cannot be addressed through... Continue »
There is going to be a rally from 11 am - 2 pm CT outside of the ICE Headquarters to show support for Andy Mathe's family. The address is 101 W Congress Parkway, Chicago, IL (on the corner of W Congress Pkwy and S Clark St.) Continue »
Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg had an op-ed in Sunday's New York Times with an important message for Democrats: Lean into comprehensive immigration reform. Greenberg believes that it will show that Democrats are interested in making government work, and prove that they are interested in rewarding responsibility and punishing... Continue »
This week, at the National Council of La Raza's (NCLR) conference, Barack Obama once again told a crowd of Latino voters that on immigration, he couldn't just bypass Congress to change the laws. Same old, same old, right? Except this time, the crowd responded in one unified voice. "Yes,... Continue »
This week, the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), the nation's largest Latino civil rights organization, held their annual conference and invited all Presidential candidates. Here's a short summary of what happened: President Obama showed up. The entire Republican field did not. Continue »
"Yes, you can! Yes, you can!" Those were the words that were chanted at the NCLR conference as Obama said that he couldn't just bypass Congress and change the laws on his own. The truth is that he actually can. Clearly, he's not getting the message that on immigration, some... Continue »
At the beginning of this year's NCLR conference (that just concluded yesterday), attendees were asked what issues matter most to them and how well they think President Obama has been addressing them. The straw poll's results hammer at the point that poll after poll after poll have shown that... Continue »