A shift in prioritizing which immigration cases to prosecute for deportation has created hope, some of it false, among those living in the country illegally. The change does not alter eligibility for legal residency or prevent an arrest. But it may stave off deportation and give immigrants a chance...
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Economic and political realities prompt the Obama administration's welcome shift on deportations from going after those who pose no security or public-safety threat to focusing enforcement on those who do. More than 800,000 people in the U.S. without permission were expelled in the past two years by U.S. Immigration...
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Immigrants might have to wait longer to bring their now-adult children to the United States after they themselves had waited years to get here. A three-judge panel ruled Friday that a 2002 law aiming to prevent lengthy processing from affecting children's immigration applications does not enable all of the...
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Gov. Nathan Deal has appointed a bigoted, anti-immigrant extremist to an important state board. The appointment should be withdrawn immediately. Phil Kent, named by Deal to the Immigration Enforcement Review Board on Friday, is a former journalist, an author, a national spokesman for American Immigration Control and executive director...
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Sep 6, 2011
California is on the brink of making a wise investment in its future and delivering a powerful rebuke to poisoned immigration politics at the national level. This week, the Legislature is expected to pass the California Dream Act, a bill to allow undocumented immigrants to receive state-financed college scholarships...
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Google, Goya, Yahoo, Intel and Levi Strauss. It's hard to imagine a day without these iconic and uniquely American brands. Most people don't know that all were founded or co-founded by immigrants.
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He may have been 2,000 miles from the border, but Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry's immigration record in Texas quickly became the focus in New Hampshire Saturday afternoon. Speaking to hundreds of Granite State voters at a private reception, the Texas governor was asked whether he supported a fence...
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It's illegal and immoral to take resources from state taxpayers and give them to people without proper documentation, a national Tea Party leader says. H. John Stahl is pushing for legislation in Pennsylvania and other states to ensure that illegal aliens don't get taxpayer-paid benefits such as welfare, take...
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A major part of the state's new immigration enforcement law is triggering some tricky questions -- and confusion -- among Georgia employers. A provision in the law requires many businesses to use the federal E-Verify program to ensure their newly hired employees are eligible to work in the United...
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A federal judge has severed three cases against Alabama's new immigration law, a month after consolidating them. In an order issued Thursday afternoon, U.S. District Judge Sharon Blackburn said "for case management purposes and ease of appellate review" she was separating suits brought against the law by the U.S...
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