Yesterday Gustavo Torres, Executive Director of CASA de Maryland, a local immigrant rights organization, was among the dozen grassroots and national immigration reform advocates to meet with President Obama at the White House. The meeting was called in the wake of growing anger and frustration at figures that indicate... Continue »
The Public Religion Research Institute conducted a national poll of 1,201 American voters from March 5 to 11, 2010. The margin of error for the national sample is +/- 3%. The current system is widely understood to be broken. Nationally, 56% of Americans of faith say that the immigration... Continue »
Today, the Spanish-language press trumpets President Barack Obama's statement about his "unwavering commitment" to immigration reform and his desire to serve as a "partner" to its advocates, after several White House meetings to discuss what progress can be made to drive reform in Congress. Meanwhile, the federal government conducted... Continue »
That's the question many grassroots immigration reform advocates were asking, heading into today's meeting at the White House. It's a question the tens of thousands of advocates coming to Washington on March 21st to push for real reform are looking to answer. It's a question that ICIRR's Joshua Hoyt... Continue »
While pundits have been busy pronouncing immigration reform dead, today the White House is busy hosting-- not one-- but three meetings on immigration in response to the increasing volume of grassroots pressure to see progress on the President's promise to overhaul our dysfunctional immigration system. Continue »
On behalf of the conservative group Resurgent Republic, The Tarrance Group conducted a national poll of 800 Hispanic voters from March 7-10, 2010.  The margin of error was +/- 3.5%. Sixty-six percent of Hispanic voters believe Congress should take a comprehensive approach to immigration reform rather than a border... Continue »
While pundits have been busy pronouncing immigration reform dead, today the White House is busy hosting-- not one-- but three meetings on immigration in response to the increasing volume of grassroots pressure to see progress on the President's promise to overhaul our dysfunctional immigration system. Continue »
The Spanish-language press is buzzing about meetings at the White House and plenty of marches: among anti-immigrant groups in Los Angeles, undocumented youth in Chicago, and the March for America in Washington, D.C. Continue »
Grassroots leaders are turning up the volume on calls for the Obama Administration and Congress to enact comprehensive immigration reform this year. Their efforts will culminate in a huge rally on the national mall, set for March 21, where tens of thousands of Americans and immigrants will demand... Continue »
Today, Karl Rove -- the strategist who was once referred to as "Bush's Brain" -- told an interviewer from the New York Times that leading off President Bush's second term in 2005 with immigration reform would have "given everybody a bipartisan victory." Oh, and it would have "done something... Continue »