Rep. Luis Gutierrez called last week for President Barack Obama to stop deporting undocumented young people, urging him to say, "I'm not going to deport another DREAM kid." Gutierrez (D-Ill.), a popular Latino congressman from the president's home state, is pushing for him to halt the deportation of young...
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Democrats hoping to regain the majority in the House in 2012 might get a strong head start in California, where voters have handed the authority for drawing political boundaries to an independent citizens' commission. Analysts studying the panel's work are predicting that three to five seats now in Republican...
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As the Georgia legislative session wound down earlier this year, state Rep. Matt Ramsey, the author of a controversial immigration bill that is considered one of the nation's strictest, held consultations with a man who is a fixture in the Capitol hallways. His name is D.A. King.
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As America celebrate its independence on July 4, prominent Christian leaders, including heavy-weight evangelicals, are calling on Congress to take action on immigration reform. Faith Leaders for Immigration Reform has released a list of statements made by Christian and Jewish leaders in support of immigration reform by U.S. lawmakers.
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The federal immigration court in Las Vegas is swamped. The caseload has more than doubled since May 2009, and that has created a tremendous backlog of cases, as the Las Vegas Sun's Karoun Demirjian reported this week. In May 2009, it took about 6 1/2 months on average for...
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The release of personal information of hundreds of Arizona police officers by a group of hackers on Thursday marks the third major release of documents and personal information on state law enforcement officials within the past week.
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One early evening in May, a Boston police officer arrested Lizandra DeMoura for traffic violations and driving without a license. In another city, she might have been booked and released for a court hearing. But in Boston, the 18-year-old was jailed overnight, taken to court, and handed over to...
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In a trailer park in the US state of Alabama, the reality of a strict new anti-illegal immigration law comes to the fore, a reality that cuts through the blaming, the endless bickering, the legal and political manoeuvring that preceded its enactment.
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If you thought the do-it-yourself anti-immigrant schemes couldn't get any more repellent, you were wrong. New laws in Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina are following — and in some ways outdoing — Arizona's attempt to engineer the mass expulsion of the undocumented, no matter the damage to the Constitution,...
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Louisiana and other states have recently approved laws requiring employers to use the federal E-Verify system to check the legal status of every worker and flag undocumented immigrants. But E-Verify alone is no solution for our nation's immigration problems, as President Barack Obama recently emphasized.
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