Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is promising to press several controversial immigration measures when the state legislature reconvenes in January. Having made immigration his signature issue, Kobach told the Lawrence Journal-World, that he wants the legislature to take up several immigration-related measures in the next session.
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South Carolina's new immigration law allows law enforcement officials to ask for immigration papers if they suspect someone of being in the country illegally. It also makes it a crime to transport or harbor anyone who is in the country illegally.
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President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is in full swing. This week, he strongly condemned Alabama 's law in front of Spanish-language media, saying that it is "not just anti-immigrant, but I believe it doesn't match our essential values as a country."
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I have a confession to make. In my early twenties, I was marginally interested in politics and sometimes found myself in the voting booth with scant grasp of the candidates or issues. I would scan the ballot for a candidate with a Hispanic surname and blindly vote for them....
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After a three week hiatus from the debate circuit, eight Republican hopefuls took the stage last week. Held in economically devastated Michigan, the debate gave candidates a chance to come out swinging against the federal policies that led to the state's unemployment rate which peaked at 14 percent after...
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One could probably fill a small library by now with the many analyses of Arizona senate president Russell Pearce's defeat Tuesday in a historic recall election, Arizona's first recall of a state legislator. There are different takes on why Pearce, best known for sponsoring last year's game-changing SB 1070...
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There's just a one-letter change in the name of the state Senate president. Republicans picked Steve Pierce after Mesa voters recalled incumbent Russell Pearce. It will be a quick fix on name plates.
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A new Obama administration policy to avoid deportations of illegal immigrants who are not criminals has been applied very unevenly across the country and has led to vast confusion both in immigrant communities and among agents charged with carrying it out.
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President Barack Obama has used an interview with a US Spanish-language newspaper to say he thinks Alabama's new immigration law is bad law, the newspaper La Opinion reports. The president cited reports of children afraid to attend classes and church workers potentially facing arrest, according to La Opinion.
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A Spanish language radio station launched a 14-day march through 14 cities in Alabama this week in an effort to spur dialogue about the state's tough new immigration law, H.B. 56. Local radio personalities of La Jefa Radio, Alabama's only Spanish language station, are interviewing people they encounter as...
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