Two important must read posts from Markos Moulitsas on the Latino vote and its implications for 2012, especially for Obama. One is titled, Obama's waning Latino support, and the other is: What drives Latino approval ratings of president
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Recent Republican solidarity on illegal immigration is showing cracks under pressure from agriculture groups, with two GOP congressmen floating programs that would make it easier for foreigners to work legally in U.S. fields and orchards.
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A shift in prioritizing which immigration cases to prosecute for deportation has created hope, some of it false, among those living in the country illegally. The change does not alter eligibility for legal residency or prevent an arrest. But it may stave off deportation and give immigrants a chance...
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Economic and political realities prompt the Obama administration's welcome shift on deportations from going after those who pose no security or public-safety threat to focusing enforcement on those who do. More than 800,000 people in the U.S. without permission were expelled in the past two years by U.S. Immigration...
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Immigrants might have to wait longer to bring their now-adult children to the United States after they themselves had waited years to get here. A three-judge panel ruled Friday that a 2002 law aiming to prevent lengthy processing from affecting children's immigration applications does not enable all of the...
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Gov. Nathan Deal has appointed a bigoted, anti-immigrant extremist to an important state board. The appointment should be withdrawn immediately. Phil Kent, named by Deal to the Immigration Enforcement Review Board on Friday, is a former journalist, an author, a national spokesman for American Immigration Control and executive director...
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The latest Republican presidential debate, being held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, will undoubtedly feature endless paeans from the candidates to our nation's 40th President. Yet on the issue of immigration, the Republican 2012 field has a lot to learn from the Gipper.
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In honor of Labor Day yesterday, U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis wrote this piece reminding readers that "immigration reform is an economic imperative." Immigrants have founded or co-founded 18% of the 2010 Fortune 500 companies, she writes, producing $1.7 trillion dollars in revenue and employing more than...
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WASHINGTON – Me enterneció un reportaje del Canal 7 local de la ciudad de Albuquerque, Nuevo México, destacando que la compañía Whirpool le regaló una lavadora y una secadora de lujo al joven indocumentado que rescató a una niña que había sido secuestrada en su vecindario de la ciudad...
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