From the Sunshine State to the City of Lights, DREAMers continue their quest to deliver their message to Mitt Romney: Support our 'DREAM' Continue »
Last November, the Applied Research Center produced a report, Shattered Families: The Perilous Intersection of Immigration Enforcement and the Child Welfare System, revealing the devastating impact deportations have on families. This week, ARC's Rinku Sen appeared on ABC's Nightline to discuss the real world impact of the deportation policy. Continue »
While Mitt Romney is taking a hard line on immigration even as the Republican primaries head toward the heavily Hispanic states of Nevada, Colorado and Arizona, the Mormon Church to which he belongs has become a decisive player in promoting policies that are decidedly more friendly toward immigrants. Continue »
Support is pouring in for a California man who was denied a kidney transplant because of his immigration status. Jesus Navarro, an immigrant from Mexico, was on an organ donor list for six years before he received word from UC San Francisco's transplant center that he was next in... Continue »
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (KOH'-bahk) confirms that he's serving as an unpaid adviser on immigration issues to Republican Mitt Romney's presidential campaign. Kobach told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he's been advising the former Massachusetts governor since the beginning of this year. Continue »
On the eve of the Nevada caucus, here's some advice to Newt Gingrich: If you still want to draw contrasts with Mitt Romney over immigration, don't toss in your cards. Double down. Why? Because you're not in Florida anymore. Continue »
IN AN article I wrote last week on Alabama's immigration law, I referred to Samuel Addy, an economist at the University of Alabama who was trying to determine the overall costs of the law. Mr Addy has just released his cost-benefit analysis, and it makes for compelling—and, at nine... Continue »
Duck if you're headed into the state of Kansas. Mixed signals are flying fast. On the subject of undocumented immigrants, officials are all over the place. The secretary of agriculture wants to put them to work. The secretary of state wants to deport them. The governor vows to eradicate... Continue »
In an op-ed today in the New York Times, Antonio Alarcon, a 17 year old DREAMer, describes living life without his parents who "self-deported" to Mexico. As he explains, "self-deportation" is a term that Mitt Romney made popular in a Florida GOP debate. Continue »
"This American Life," the New York Times Lede blog and the Rachel Maddow show this week both put out pretty amusing historical pieces on the concept of self-deportation and its origins as a hysterical, satirical joke. Continue »