In the latest attempt to derail health care reform by blaming immigrants, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) is up to the same old tricks – only this time, King wants to restrict access to the free market by individuals willing to pay for their own healthcare.
What set King off were...
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A network of faith-based groups that have advocated for immigrants is organizing to bring the issue back to the forefront as Washington prepares to address it early next year.
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November 8, 2009, will mark the one-year anniversary of Ecuadorian immigrant Marcello Lucero's brutal murder at the hand of seven high school teens in the infamously anti-immigrant Suffolk County, New York.
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What we must do next is move more Latino children through college. (Only 16 percent of Latinos between age 25 and 29 have a college degree.) And that includes children of illegal immigrants.
Last week, rallies were held in several cities to urge Congress to embrace this goal.
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The Reform Immigration for America coalition plans a large rally in support of comprehensive immigration reform and immigrants rights on Monday, October 12, 2009, 7:00 PM, at Holy Redeemer Church, 1721 Junction Street, Detroit, Michigan.
The event will support a delegation of leaders from Michigan traveling to Washington DC for...
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A clothing maker with a vast garment factory in downtown Los Angeles is firing about 1,800 immigrant employees in the coming days — more than a quarter of its work force — after a federal investigation turned up irregularities in the identity documents the workers presented when they were...
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Sep 28, 2009
There's no doubt this country needs comprehensive immigration reform at the national level. But what we don't need is another back-door effort conscripting local authorities to take on immigration enforcement duties that ought to be handled by federal authorities.
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Constituent-lawmaker relations have been strained lately, marked most vocally by enraged citizens at raucous town hall meetings in August.
Some people are still protesting. But others are praying.
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Elizabeth Pineda climbs out from bed, her 4-year-old son Adrian asleep nearby. She lays out a tiny pair of shorts and a white T-shirt for his first day of school, gathers her purse and tiptoes outside. Her cousin will get the boy up and off to class in a...
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Several religious leaders are inviting people of faith to a program tonight about the need for compassionate immigration reform in the United States.
"An Evening of Compassion" at Polytechnic United Methodist Church will include a prayer vigil and a documentary, Made in LA, which focuses on three immigrant workers in...
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