Dec 21, 2011
Without treatment to replace his failing kidneys, doctors knew, the man in Bellevue hospital would die. He was a waiter in his early 30s, a husband and father of two, so well liked at the Manhattan restaurant where he had worked for a decade that everyone from the customers...
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Congress failed to enact any meaningful immigration legislation this year, leaving in place a woefully flawed system. Sure, it's a vexing issue. But ignoring the problem only makes matters worse. Here are five troubling trends.
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Dec 20, 2011
The Homeland Security Department will use 50 immigration agents to screen jail inmates in Arizona's most populous county after revoking the sheriff's authority to access its systems, the agency said Monday in a letter to Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.).
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The flames are lapping higher around Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Arpaio, the self-proclaimed "America's Toughest Sheriff" because of his controversial crackdown – at the county level – on illegal immigration, now is under fire again because of the critical condition of a man who became unresponsive while in the...
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Lawyers for the Justice Department and a group of 36 plaintiffs asked a federal appeals court this morning not to delay argument over the Alabama immigration law pending the Supreme Court's ruling in the Arizona immigration law case.
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Several leaders of the Roman Catholic, United Methodist and Episcopal churches in Alabama wrote a letter Monday to the governor, saying they are praying he will show political courage and support repeal of Alabama's immigration law.
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The Occupy Wall Street movement turned its attention to immigration on Sunday in honor of International Migrants Day. In rallies in New York and Los Angeles, hundreds turned out to draw attention to immigrant working rights and immigration policies.
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Dec 19, 2011
Opponents of Alabama's immigration law marched with immigrant and civil rights leaders Saturday from the state Capitol steps to the governor's mansion to send a message of dissatisfaction with what some were calling a "mean and ugly law."
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Joe Arpaio likes to call himself America's toughest sheriff. But the Department of Justice reached a different conclusion last week about the lawman from Arizona's Maricopa County: He helped nurture a "culture of bias" in his department, it reported after a three-year investigation, that led to discriminatory behavior and...
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Recently a little-known but symptomatic incident occurred in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, a place symbolic of America's deep South and once an important center of the Ku Klux Klan and its white supremacist ideas.
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