Sep 6, 2011
California is on the brink of making a wise investment in its future and delivering a powerful rebuke to poisoned immigration politics at the national level. This week, the Legislature is expected to pass the California Dream Act, a bill to allow undocumented immigrants to receive state-financed college scholarships...
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Google, Goya, Yahoo, Intel and Levi Strauss. It's hard to imagine a day without these iconic and uniquely American brands. Most people don't know that all were founded or co-founded by immigrants.
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He may have been 2,000 miles from the border, but Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry's immigration record in Texas quickly became the focus in New Hampshire Saturday afternoon. Speaking to hundreds of Granite State voters at a private reception, the Texas governor was asked whether he supported a fence...
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It's illegal and immoral to take resources from state taxpayers and give them to people without proper documentation, a national Tea Party leader says. H. John Stahl is pushing for legislation in Pennsylvania and other states to ensure that illegal aliens don't get taxpayer-paid benefits such as welfare, take...
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A major part of the state's new immigration enforcement law is triggering some tricky questions -- and confusion -- among Georgia employers. A provision in the law requires many businesses to use the federal E-Verify program to ensure their newly hired employees are eligible to work in the United...
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A federal judge has severed three cases against Alabama's new immigration law, a month after consolidating them. In an order issued Thursday afternoon, U.S. District Judge Sharon Blackburn said "for case management purposes and ease of appellate review" she was separating suits brought against the law by the U.S...
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"I began to wonder why immigrants had to be chased like animals, and why I was being paid to chase them" says John Randolph, a former border patrol agent, in his piece at the Huffington Post last Thursday. "'What are we doing here? Why am I chasing these people?',...
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In New Mexico, where Gov. Susana Martínez and her GOP buddies are pushing to repeal a law enacted in 2003 that allows all residents of New Mexico to apply for a driver's license, an immigrant advocacy group Somos Un Pueblo Unido is mobilizing their members to take action against...
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In my twenty-six years as a US Border Patrol/ICE Agent, I caught many people. At the time, common sense told me that the vast majority of the people who I caught were good, hard working people. I began to wonder why immigrants had to be chased like animals, and...
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In a seminal poem tied to the very early years of the civil rights movement, Langston Hughes wrote: "What happens to a dream deferred?" Just ask the estimated 24,000 undocumented students who graduate each year from California's public high schools.
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