Sep 26, 2011
Between talk-radio blather and election-season bravado, it's easy to have an opinion about immigration, and easier to forget that people—actual people—pick our food. Now and then we might glimpse them out the car window, but few of us realize that what we eat depends on them, and fewer still...
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She had spent her final week praying for one outcome while preparing for another. With five days left before she was supposed to leave the United States, Paula Godoy explained to her three children what it meant to be deported. With three days left, she packed her clothes and...
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Lost in the Congressional debates between opponents and proponents of the Dream Act are two mutually reinforcing truths. First, America's failed immigration system is the flip side of a failed foreign policy.
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The crimes were neither violent nor unique, but the Montgomery County investigators who looked into reports of car vandalism were troubled nonetheless by what they found. One Hispanic man reported in July 2010 that his tires had been slashed 20 times over four years.
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It's an issue that has farmers fired up, and many wondering what will happen to Alabama's produce industry. "If we can't get the food out of the ground and to the store then it goes to waste," says one farmer. "I guess they'll have to arrest me here in...
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Sep 23, 2011
Texas Gov. Rick Perry was booed by the audience after he discussed his rationale for giving in-state tuition to the children of undocumented immigrants in his state, an Achilles' heel for the border-state governor when it comes to hard-line conservatives.
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Governor Perry, I'm going to ask you a question, so you don't need to respond to him, because you're going to get a full minute to answer your question, which is on directly this point. You're the candidate whose name, by a wide margin, came up most often in...
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On Wednesday, September 21, the House Judiciary Committee voted along party lines to send Rep. Lamar Smith's (R-TX) Legal Workforce Act (H.R. 2885) to the House Floor. Now the rest of the House of Representatives will get a chance to debate this monstrosity.
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The House Judiciary Committee this week passed a Republican-sponsored bill that would require private businesses to use a federal program that checks the immigration status of all job applicants. The bill, the most sweeping piece of immigration legislation moving through Congress, will have a hard time getting through the...
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The number of immigration bills introduced in state capitals reached a record 1,592 this year, but the number actually signed into law fell by one-fourth, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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