Casa De Maryland took to the streets yesterday to protest the Obama Administration’s failure to implement immigration policy that would keep undocumented immigrants who fit certain criteria safe from deportation. And, those activists took to the streets right outside of the DC headquarters of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (a.k.a. ICE.)...
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Today, the Republican National Committee’s Hispanic Outreach Director, Bettina Inclan, caused quite a stir by stating that Mitt Romney hasn’t yet decided his positions on immigration: “As a candidate, to my understanding, he’s still deciding what his position on immigration is,” said Bettina Inclan, the RNC’s director of Hispanic outreach....
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Last week, the regional ICE office in charge of New Orleans, Tennessee, Alabama, and other localities completed its review of over 3,000 deportation cases pending in the region’s immigration courts. Among the cases are those of the “Southern 32,” thirty-two immigrant leaders from the Congress of Day Laborers who...
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Cross-Posted at Mom’s Rising: Last month we wrote about how Republicans were warring on immigrants and women by opposing revised health care standards for detainees. Now, a new front in the GOP war against both groups is emerging. Last Friday, Huffington Post’s Ryan Grim and Elise Foley wrote about...
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Political analysts agree: Latino voters will be pivotal in numerous 2012 battleground states – and perhaps determine the presidency in the process. Today, the Orlando Sentinel captures the dynamics at play in Florida, writing: The presidential race could come down to this: To win in November, President Barack Obama or...
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Sunday’s New York Times featured a profile on “The Powers of New York,” described as: Influence in New York is now wielded by a larger and more diverse array of people. As part of a special issue of Metropolitan, here’s a look at who is at the top and who...
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We’ve been publishing a series of posts from the DREAMers of the Campaign for an American DREAM. In March, they set off from San Francisco to begin a 3,000-mile, 8-month walk to Washington, DC to call attention to the DREAM Act and the need for immigration reform. Today’s post is from Raymi...
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The Arizona state legislature this week declined to increase funds for the developmentally disabled, declined to grant 100,000 poor children greater access to health care, and declined to fund much-needed highway and education projects—but it did consider reimbursing recalled state senator Russell Pearce for $216,000 for costs incurred during...
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At Daily Caller, which has established itself as a mouthpiece for the right-wing, the notoriously extremist Ann Coulter offers a particularly vicious rant against anyone who has ever supported immigration reform. This is her proposed solution: I myself would like to deport the people responsible for our current immigration...
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Today, Reverend Frank Hammond led a group of immigration advocates — calling themselves “Alabama’s Conscience” — in a protest at the Alabama Senate against their state’s controversial worst-in-the-nation anti-immigrant law, H.B. 56 and legislation under consideration that could make it even worse. “These laws are, by their very nature,...
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