Two days after she focused on immigration in her campaign stop in Iowa, Minnesota U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann is scheduled to be in Arizona Monday to discuss the U.S.-Mexico border.
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U.S. Sen. Harry Reid said Sunday he owes his job to Latinos, the West's growing political power who could be key to future Democratic victories and the re-election of President Barack Obama. "I would not be the majority leader in the United States Senate today, but for the Hispanics...
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Jose Antonio Vargas, former Washington Post reporter and founder of DefineAmerican.com, talks to Rachel Maddow about the fight against Alabama's anti-immigrant law, written by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach.
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Jerry Spencer had an idea after Alabama's tough new law against illegal immigration scared Hispanic workers out of the tomato fields northeast of Birmingham: Recruit unemployed U.S. citizens to do the work, give them free transportation and pay them to pick the fruit and clean the fields.
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Oct 17, 2011
A federal appeals court in Atlanta temporarily blocked two provisions of Alabama's far-reaching immigration enforcement law on Friday, but left much of it in effect as the state and the United States Justice Department continued to fight over the law in the courts.
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Latino and other civil rights groups stepped up their efforts this week to knock the "John and Ken Show" off the air at KFI radio. Along with a public picket line outside KFI studios in Burbank, the groups have been pressuring advertisers to withdraw from the controversial radio talk...
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Alabama has what many consider to be the strictest anti-immigration law in the country. Now that the law has been in effect for a few weeks, the state's residents are starting to see what some of the unintended consequences are. Andrew Yeager of member station WBHM reports from Birmingham.
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Gov. Jerry Brown of California took a stand for immigrants' rights and humane, sensible government when he signed several new bills into law. It is a welcome change from the intolerance and counterproductive policies being adopted in so many other states around the country.
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At two campaign rallies in Tennessee on Saturday night, the Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said that part of his immigration policy would be to build an electrified fence on the country's border with Mexico that could kill people trying to enter the country illegally.
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With the presidential election looming slightly more than a year away, a stark contrast exists between Democratic and Republican strategies to reach Latino voters, a difference that is clearly apparent in opinions held by the Hispanic electorate.
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