Jun 8, 2011
Add Massachusetts to the groundswell of states and localities opposing President Obama's misconceived and failing immigration dragnet. Gov. Deval Patrick announced on Monday that his state would not participate in Secure Communities, the fingerprint-sharing program that the Obama administration wants to impose nationwide by 2013.
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In opposing the federal program to use state police to check the immigration status of people who are arrested, and then supporting it, and then opposing it again, Governor Patrick has seemed anguished and indecisive. In an odd way, it's an appropriate stance.
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The U.S. Supreme Court rejected without comment a challenge against California' s AB 540, a law that allows undocumented students to pay in-state tuition to attend state colleges and universities. The high court's decision is a resounding victory for the students.
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Nearly half of the 132 Georgia businesses polled in a private survey this month say they are experiencing agricultural labor shortages. And of those who reported shortages to the Georgia Agribusiness Council, more than a third said immigrants are concerned about the state's new anti-illegal immigration law.
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As criticism mounts over a controversial federal program aimed at deporting criminal illegal residents, Gov. John Hickenlooper is now hedging on Colorado's commitment to Secure Communities. "We're gathering data. We're going to do a full evaluation of whether it's working," Hickenlooper said Monday.
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Gov. Rick Perry added immigration legislation to the special session's agenda on Tuesday, including a measure that would remove local law enforcement agencies' ability to make immigration violations a lower priority.
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Yesterday, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick removed his state from the Department of Homeland Security's Secure Communities program. Today, The New York Times used that news as the basis for another very strong editorial urging a new direction for "President Obama's misconceived and failing immigration dragnet."
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Yesterday, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick (D-MA) announced that his state will not participate in the federal government's failed "Secure Communities" deportation program.
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A new study from UC Davis and the USDA confirms that E-Verify would be a disaster for California, the largest agricultural base in the country.
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Yesterday, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick (D-MA) announced that his state will join Illinois and New York in declining to participate in the federal government's failed "Secure Communities" deportation program. The state of California, through the TRUST Act legislation that passed the State Assembly and now awaits action in...
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