The Smithsonian Institution acknowledged it mistakenly rented space to an advocacy group that one civil rights organization calls a hate group.
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In churches and parks, outside courthouses and municipal buildings, hundreds of people yesterday called for an end to federal immigration policies that advocates say tear apart families and punish the U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants who are deported or detained for long periods of time.
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Reporting from Mexico City - He may have soared a gazillion miles in outer space, but back here on Earth, U.S. astronaut Jose Hernandez has stepped knee-deep in controversy.
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The arrest information is the first data released to the public since the so-called fugitive unit was formed. The Register received the data after filing a federal Freedom of Information Act request.
The numbers show 67 percent of those detained — 84 of 125 people from February to May this...
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Sep 15, 2009
The leading anti-immigrant group and its supporters are descending on Washington DC this week, as part of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR)'s "Week of Action." The real motive behind their anti-immigrant agenda was exposed yesterday during a telephonic press conference by several experts and advocates for...
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Senator Max Baucus, the Montana Democrat who is leading bipartisan negotiations on health care legislation, on Monday said he would include in his bill a proposal by the Obama White House to bar illegal immigrants from buying health coverage through a new insurance marketplace, or exchange, even if the...
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As Congress's debate over health-care legislation lumbers toward a defining test for the Obama presidency, partisans on both sides of another issue -- immigration -- escalated their own proxy war this week, concluding that the fates of the two issues have become politically linked.
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Several Hispanic groups are calling on CNN to drop talk-show host and frequent illegal immigrant critic Lou Dobbs, who is broadcasting his radio show from a conference put on by what some activists refer to as a "hate group."
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hosting their annual lobby day and a "radio row" featuring far right anti-immigrant radio personalities on September 15 and 16.
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Few of us, however, have actually bothered to address the issue that provoked Wilson's outburst: health insurance for illegal immigrants. The line he objected to—"The reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally"—is, in fact, not a "lie." The current House bill makes it very...
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