Rep. Elton Gallegly is the most important California Member of Congress dealing with immigration that you've never heard of. But if his hard-line views become law, he could ruin the state's economy – and his party's prospects with Latino voters.
Continue
»
Immigration advocates scored a major victory in Arizona's battle against SB 1070 today when a federal appeals court refused to lift a ban blocking the most extreme elements of the legislation.
Continue
»
In a letter, 22 leaders of a broad political spectrum from the Democratic Party urged President Obama to grant administrative relief to Dreamers.
Continue
»
11/04/11 a 11:24am por Maribel Hastings WASHINGTON – Y continuando con la saga de mensajes contradictorios en el frente migratorio, resulta que el Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE) quiere “mejorar” su imagen entre la comunidad inmigrante de Chicago, Illinois, mientras cerca, en Detroit, Michigan, el mismo...
Continue
»
Earlier this week, we released a new report from America's Voice that examines (and demolishes) the claim that Republicans can maintain a hard line on immigration reform and still court the Latino vote simply by running Latino candidates. We continue our coverage today with Governor of New Mexico Susana...
Continue
»
When Arizona lawmakers enacted legislation last year inflating the power of police officers to check immigration status when they make even routine stops, they staked out a reputation for the state as a citadel of intolerance. That was by design, for their explicit purpose was to drive away the...
Continue
»
The mother from Cameroon came to immigration court bearing scars: She'd been imprisoned back home, she said, beaten with cables, burned with cigarettes and raped repeatedly, contracting HIV. Her husband had died behind bars; her three children she'd left behind were struggling to survive.
Continue
»
Liberal immigration activists are looking to Utah as a compassionate and logical model for shaping the nation's future policies toward illegal immigrants. Utah leaders — including government, education, business and religious groups — came together last fall to draft a set of principles to guide the immigration debate in...
Continue
»
Tech students with great software and big dreams won a chance to launch their businesses in New York through a city program to develop the industry here. One group from the Czech Republic developed software that can tell whether a digital photo has been altered, while another from Vancouver,...
Continue
»
Lakshminarayana Ganti, 33, who has been denied a U.S. visa, checks his visa status online daily. Lakshminarayana Ganti reached out to me in the spring of 2009, long after he had exhausted every other option. Sixteen months earlier he had been a young man on the rise, living in...
Continue
»
