Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) on Wednesday morning said Republican rhetoric in favor of enforcing and reforming U.S. immigration laws is to blame for the taunting of Latinos and immigrants by white Americans. Continue »
Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice officials this morning said that Alabama's immigration law has affected the lives of immigrants and the state's economy and that's why the state should repeal it and why Mississippi and other states should not try to enact similar laws. Continue »
Love may cross oceans and borders, but tens of thousands of same-sex couples in the United States live under the threat of separation because federal law prohibits immigration authorities from treating them the same as married opposite-sex couples. Continue »
Maybe the reset button was too high-tech. Now Mitt Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom, to the delight of both the Rick Santorum and Barack Obama campaigns, has compared the general election to an Etch a Sketch: "You can kind of shake it up and restart all over again." Continue »
Congressional Quarterly reports that Rep. David Rivera (R-FL) is planning to introduce a dramatically stripped down version of the DREAM Act -- and it doesn't pass the legislative or political laugh test. Continue »
Congressional Quarterly reports that Rep. David Rivera (R-FL) is planning to introduce a dramatically stripped down version of the DREAM Act -- and it doesn't pass the legislative or political laugh test. Continue »
A detailed analysis of the 2012 electoral map by Markos Moulitsas of DailyKos shows that Mitt Romney's problem with Latino voters could be decisive in the November elections. The analysis relies on recent polling, information about Latino voter turnout, and examinations of 2012 battleground states to highlight the... Continue »
The news that former Governor Jeb Bush (R-FL) has endorsed Mitt Romney for president is a missed opportunity to shift the Republican Party's direction on immigration. Continue »
Implementation of the new deportation guidelines has been far narrower than many hoped. Continue »
The news that former Governor Jeb Bush (R-FL) has endorsed Mitt Romney for president is a missed opportunity to shift the Republican Party's direction on immigration. Before Florida's primary earlier this year, Bush cautioned the Republican field about its continued mishandling of the immigration issue, noting, "That could be... Continue »