Aug 18, 2011
Elected officials and law enforcement leaders offer rebukes of the program, while immigrant communities and newspaper editorial boards call for it to be scrapped.
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"You got strategic fencing in some of the metropolitan areas – it's very helpful," Rick Perry, the Texas governor said. "But the idea that you're going to build a wall from Brownsville to El Paso is just -- it's ridiculous on its face."
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The Obama administration must be gearing up for a long fight in federal court after immigrant and civil rights groups filed a slew of lawsuits this month. The claims seek to gain class-action status and challenge a wide swath of policies.
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Some are in the country illegally. But many others are women of means who enter the country legally as tourists and pay cash to deliver babies at hospitals in Nogales, Yuma and Tucson.
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U.S. IMMIGRATION and Customs Enforcement deported people who had no criminal history and posed no threat to the public or national security, according to a report by the American Immigration Lawyers Association.
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A scathing editorial today in the Washington Post blasts the Republican Party's "scare tactics" on border security and calls out Senator John Cornyn for trying "to have it both ways." The conclusion notes that by promoting "myths" about border security, "politicians perpetuate both a lie and the national disgrace...
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A program that is central to President Obama's immigration enforcement strategy has drawn protests by Latino and immigrant organizations in six cities in the last two days, as those groups stepped up their confrontation with the administration over the fast pace of deportations.
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Because he has an immigrant-friendly past, you would think that Texas Gov. Rick Perry could easily challenge President Barack Obama for the Hispanic vote in the 2012 presidential election.
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Growing frustration with the nation's immigration policies drew about 70 protesters to President Barack Obama's Chicago campaign headquarters Tuesday to call for an end to Secure Communities.
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Spurred by public anger over illegal immigration and the example set by Arizona, states passed more than 100 immigration-related measures during the first half of this year.
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