Jan 20, 2010
Clutching their passports and well-thumbed documents, hundreds of illegal Haitian immigrants crowded into a Roman Catholic church here on Wednesday to seek help in applying for a program that would allow them to stay and work legally in the United States for 18 months.
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20/01/10 a 5:13pm La Creencia Convencional en la Mira: Por qué es prematuro declarar la muerte de la reforma migratoria La reforma tiene sentido ahora más que nunca Resuelve un problema, supone más contribuyentes, reduce costos y restaura el estado de derecho Washington, D.C. – Durante meses varios críticos...
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Asked whether House leadership had the political will to move comprehensive immigration reform legislation once the Senate passes a bill, which members of both houses have indicated is the current strategy, Becerra said: "The answer is, of course." "This year, working with the Senate, we can accomplish reform of...
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Here's another damning piece from the New York Times exposing the nation's shadowy immigration detention system, which exploded under the Bush administration. The editorial is called, "Secrets of Immigration Jails," and begins: "Americans have long known that the government has been running secretive immigration prisons into which detainees have...
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20/01/10 a 9:15am por Rafael Prieto Zartha Abel es el primer nombre y el único con que se ha identificado en los medios de comunicación a un hispano que fue procesado en la cárcel central de Charlotte, Carolina del Norte, por el programa de deportaciones 287(g), después de sufrir uno...
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Reacting to the Obama Administration's decision to halt deportations to Haiti and extend Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to undocumented Haitians living in the U.S., anti-immigration zealot Rep. Steve King (R-IA) instead used the Haitian earthquake as a pretext to advance his extremist beliefs.
In a candid admission of his view...
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A coalition of labor, student and immigrant rights groups has gathered in downtown Las Vegas to push for comprehensive immigration reform.
The group on Thursday launched the local part of a national campaign.
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As we pause to commemorate the historic achievements of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., protest the horrid abuses of Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and come together to help Haiti rebuild in the wage of tragedy, one can't help but wonder exactly what sort of America members of Congress like...
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The Center for American Progress has a great snapshot of public opinion on immigration today. The piece begins: "There's no doubt the politics of immigration reform are very complicated and that getting a bill through Congress will not be easy. But it's important to be clear that the public...
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In a late development on Monday, the U.S. governmentannounced it was granting humanitarian paroles to hundreds of Haitian orphans who were waiting to be adopted by Americans before the earthquake.
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