Mar 27, 2012
Restrictive policies aimed at undocumented immigrants have pushed them underground, fostered negative perceptions of law enforcement and created anxiety around mundane activities such as walking their children to school and driving, according to a report released Monday that focuses on North County.
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Hispanics are the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population and a critical swing vote in national elections. There are now more Hispanic U.S. residents than African-Americans, and this group's projected growth rate greatly exceeds native-born blacks and non-Hispanic whites.
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Last June, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton outlined criteria for prosecutorial discretion in a memo, which called on ICE officials to balance a range of factors, both positive and negative, in determining whether an individual would be entered into deportation proceedings or not. However,...
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Last June, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton outlined criteria for prosecutorial discretion in a memo, which called on ICE officials to consider a range of factors in determining whether an individual should be deported or not.
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This morning, despite pleas from his wife, children and dozens of community members from Manitowoc, WI, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) deported Jaime Martinez Espinal, leaving his US citizen wife, Jennifer, and their four children, in a state of financial and emotional ruin. Mr. Martinez's case is...
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Instead of working to pass comprehensive immigration reform, Republicans in Congress are pushing for the expulsion of all 11 million undocumented immigrants in this country. Their plan, called "attrition through enforcement," is to ramp up deportations and make life in the U.S. so degrading and unbearable that the...
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President Obama's reelection team wants to turn Arizona from red to blue in 2012 with the help of Latino voters, but it will have to reverse a decades-old problem to accomplish that goal.
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Jaime Martinez of Manitowoc, whose family and friends have been fighting his deportation, got on a bus in Chicago on Friday morning on the first leg of his journey back to Mexico.
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In the run-up to the 2012 presidential election, many Hispanics are talking about voting for the lesser of two evils. The hard part is figuring out the lesser evil. African-Americans aren't facing the same dilemma, and yet many of those on the far left are also disappointed in President...
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This morning, despite pleas from his wife, children and dozens of community members from Manitowoc, WI, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) deported Jaime Martinez Espinal, leaving his US citizen wife, Jennifer, and their four children, in a state of financial and emotional ruin.
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