Today, the Department of Justice will release the results of its investigation of the notoriously anti-immigrant Sheriff of Maricopa Country: Joe Arpaio. Via ABC 15 in Phoenix, at 10 AM MT/1 PM ET, the United States Department of Justice will announce the results of its investigation of Arpaio. Continue »
Alabama's new immigration law bars illegal immigrants from buying business licenses in the state, but local and state officials Wednesday said it's almost impossible for local governments to enforce the provision. Continue »
One down. Now, activists who oppose Arizona's hard line against undocumented immigrants say, it's time for another to go. The group that led the recall effort against former Arizona Senate President Russell Pearce, who shaped Arizona's law cracking down on illegal immigration, plans to ask county officials to seek... Continue »
Ana, 37, keeps a daily vigil by the phone in Guadalajara, Mexico. With the exception of two brief court-supervised visits, Ana hasn't spent time with her three daughters or son since 2008, when she left her children in the care of her ex-boyfriend in Phoenix. Continue »
U.S. citizens have been illegally detained throughout Los Angeles County as a result of the controversial Secure Communities immigration enforcement program, a coalition of civil and immigrant rights groups said Wednesday. Continue »
If you can read the Human Rights Watch report on Alabama's immigration law and not be moved, you're probably one of our harsher posters on these blogs. Through in-person interviews, observation, media reports and other evidence, Human Rights Watch's 57-page report, released today, tells the stories of people who... Continue »
In the latest showdown with the federal government — albeit a more symbolic one — the Board of Supervisors today approved a nonbinding resolution that asks the Sheriff's Department and Juvenile Probation Department to not spend any local money when detaining suspected undocumented immigrants at the request of U.S.... Continue »
A series of media outlets reported yesterday that a key phrase used in Mitt Romney's stump speech and campaign advertisements, "Keep America American," turns out to be a slogan the Ku Klux Klan used in the 1920s to protest the arrival of Irish immigrants. Continue »
On Tuesday, community, business, and religious leaders in Iowa launched the Iowa Compact. The Compact charts a sensible course on immigration policy – a welcome contrast to the "papers, please" crackdowns passed in Arizona and Alabama, and the rhetoric dominating this issue among GOP 2012 presidential contenders. Continue »
A growing number of United States citizens have been detained under Obama administration programs intended to detect illegal immigrants who are arrested by local police. In a spate of recent cases across the country, American citizens have been confined in local jails after federal immigration agents instructed the police... Continue »