Former Governor Jeb Bush has claimed that his endorsement of Mitt Romney is not on any particular issue. Unfortunately for him, this endorsement cannot be seen in any other way but as an endorsement of Romney's cruel "self-deportation" immigration policy. Continue »
We Belong Together, a delegation of women from 17 groups around the nation, was in Birmingham on Wednesday and today to look at the impact Alabama's immigration law has had on women and children. Continue »
Jaime is a fourteen-year resident of Manitowoc, Wisconsin who is the sole provider for his wife and four children, who has been detained by ICE for nearly a month and who could be deported at any time. Continue »
When Mitt Romney advisor Eric Fehrnstrom's made his "Etch-a-Sketch" comments to CNN yesterday he revealed that the campaign planned "to hit a reset button for the fall campaign." Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post helpfully weighed in with the suggestion Romney start his move back to the center... Continue »
Congress may have finally found an immigration issue it can agree on in an election year: letting in more Irish people. At a time when the volatile issue of comprehensive immigration reform is hopelessly stalled in a divided Congress, senators of both parties are rallying behind legislation that would... Continue »
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 »
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 »