May 27, 2011
Members of the state Assembly will vote Friday on a bill that could fling open the doors to higher education for undocumented students by offering them public money for college. For students, the bill is the most critical component of the California Dream Act.
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The California Assembly approved a bill Thursday to allow counties to opt out of a federal program to combat illegal immigration that opponents say rips families apart, leads to racial profiling and erodes trust between law enforcement and immigrants.
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Adding their voices to a growing number of opponents, Los Angeles City Councilman Bernard C. Parks and Councilwoman Jan Perry have called on the city to support limiting the scope of local participation in a controversial federal deportation program.
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May 24, 2011
The golden rule of effective community-based policing can be summed up with one word: trust. Our public safety depends on fostering trust between police and all community members of good will – including California's immigrant residents.
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May 23, 2011
Imagine if Democrats proposed legislation that would cause the loss of almost 800,000 jobs, force 4 million more workers into an administrative quagmire, cause an undue burden on small businesses, nearly wipe out the agricultural workforce, result in the loss of tax revenue – and had a failure rate...
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Civil rights leader Cesar Chavez will in fact have a new Navy cargo ship named after him, despite Republican protest that the honor was too "political" a move. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus confirmed yesterday that the last of the 14 Lewis and Clark-class cargo ships built by NASSCO...
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The Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General plans an investigation of an immigration enforcement program that purports to target "serious convicted felons" for deportation but has ensnared many illegal immigrants who were arrested but not subsequently convicted of crimes or who committed minor offenses, a letter obtained...
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May 11, 2011
In face of statements by Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, three legal scholars in California have offered their opinions on recent developments surrounding immigration enforcement in California and "Secure Communities" (S-Comm) a program run by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that automatically shares fingerprints at the point...
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Huge news this week on the DREAM Act front: both Illinois and California in the last few days have taken the lead among states—and the federal government—in advancing common-sense positions on immigration reform.
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As the federal government and state legislatures try to expand the role of police in immigration enforcement, state and local police are pushing back. In Texas, Illinois, California, and elsewhere, law enforcement leaders are speaking out against proposals to gut their community policing policies and require them to...
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