This is disturbing news: Michael Hethmon is an attorney with the Immigration Reform Law Institute, a group that pushes anti-immigrant laws like Arizona’s SB 1070 in states around the country and counts people like Kris Kobach among its members.  Hethmon is currently running for a House of Delegates seat in Maryland —... Continue »
President Obama has made many promises on immigration reform — from 2008, when he was a candidate speaking to the National Council of La Raza, to earlier this year, when he gave a Rose Garden speech announcing forthcoming executive action on immigration and deportations.  Yet no relief for immigrant... Continue »
Rumors of a potential delay of executive action on immigration reform have been swirling around D.C. in recent days.  But an editorial from La Opinion the nation’s largest Spanish-language newspaper today highlights the absurdity of excuses offered to bolster a delay and urges the President to follow-through on his... Continue »
Rumors have swirled this week that President Obama may delay his expected executive announcement on immigration until after the midterms.  Such a move would be devastating to families like Pedro’s, who are in danger of losing their father to deportation even though he is the family’s caretaker and is... Continue »
The Daily Show’s news correspondent Michael Che sat down with one of the mainstays of the anti-immigrant movement — Jim Gilchrist of the Minutemen — in a segment that aired last night.  As Gilchrist talked about the children at the border in terms of invasion and apocalypse, Che had... Continue »
Bloomberg View (Opinion): Are Democrats Deluding Themselves? Latin Post: Illinois Rep. Luis Gutierrez, Immigrant Advocates Want Obama to Act on Immigration Before November 2014 Elections Huffington Post: Why The White House And Republicans Both Failed To Stop The Border Crisis Politico: Senate Democrats urge President Obama to delay immigration... Continue »
Pedro Ramirez is the Poster Child for Need for Bold, Consistent Executive Action TODAY With recent reports suggesting that the President will delay his executive action announcement on immigration until after the elections, one family in Ohio is paying the price for the White House’s inaction. After receiving a... Continue »
Here’s Francis Wilkinson at Bloomberg weighing in on why President Obama should act now on immigration and deportations, rather than waiting until after the midterms or later.  Basically, the electoral map already looks bad for Democrats this fall.  Democrats should want Obama to shake things up and possibly improve the playing... Continue »
Why the President and Democrats Should Lean In Now, and Not Wait Until Later Despite the continued reports suggesting that the President may delay big executive action on immigration until after the November elections, the case for executive action from the White House gets stronger every day. According to... Continue »