House Republican leaders have placed a familiar cast of anti-immigrant characters in position to draft the chamber's strategy on immigration. Rather than change course and embrace comprehensive immigration reform -- the only proposal that would truly level the playing field, turn workers into taxpayers, and restore the rule of...
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It wasn't meant to be a scare headline, but when you see a story that says a Colorado bill would mimic Arizona law, you stop for a second.
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As a fifth-generation rancher and citrus farmer, Adam Putnam has a personal stake in an immigration overhaul, one of the most heated issues in Washington and Florida.
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Jan 22, 2011
TYSON FOODS, one of the world's largest food processing firms, has a checkered past when it comes to employment practices, specifically the hiring of undocumented workers.
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Jan 21, 2011
Jeb Bush, the popular former governor of Florida and possible Republican presidential candidate -- albeit, more likely in 2016 -- has strong feelings about how Democrats play politics with Hispanics while Republicans play with demographic dynamite by alienating them.
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Pedro Gutierrez was granted a 30 day window by DHS and ICE agency office in Phoenix, AZ to remain in the country while his case is being reviewed.
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Last week's Republican-backed Hispanic Leadership Network conference in South Florida overflowed with chatter about how the GOP needs to improve its positioning with Latino voters. Amidst all the discussion, however, few voices at the conference admitted the simple truth that appealing to Latino voters will not simply require...
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More than 200 people turned out at a church in a central Washington college town Friday to discuss a series of immigration raids that resulted in more than two dozen arrests and left relatives scrambling to care for the children left behind.
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Last week's Republican-backed Hispanic Leadership Network conference in South Florida overflowed with chatter about how the GOP needs to improve its positioning with Latino voters. Amidst all the discussion, however, few voices at the conference admitted the simple truth that appealing to Latino voters will not simply...
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In response to a recent Roll Call article calling out the nativist lobby, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Lamar Smith wrote a letter to the editor making a series of claims—many of which he's been making for the last 20 years—which simply don't stack up to the facts. These...
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