Federal immigration officials announced Friday that they will be ramming the Secure Communities program down the throats of all states and cities nationwide by 2013. Continue »
Draconian. Rogue. Dangerous. Flawed. These are just some of the words used to describe the Department of Homeland Security's Secure Communities program, which, if it hasn't already, will soon be coming to a community near you. Continue »
Tuesday night, the Department of Homeland Security Advisory Council's Task Force on Secure Communities held a pilot meeting at the Dallas County Community College's Bill J. Priest Campus to discuss ICE's controversial fingerprint screening program intended to snare dangerous undocumented immigrants. Continue »
These are just some of the words used to describe the Department of Homeland Security's Secure Communities program, which, if it hasn't already, will soon be coming to a community near you. Continue »
I was thrilled to be asked by my friend Arianna to contribute to the debut of HuffPost Latino, and I can think of no more apropos topic for a site that loves politics than the 2012 presidential election. Continue »
As the Republican governor of Texas, Rick Perry has walked both sides of the immigration line, at one point implementing a Texas-style Dream Act that some say was the model for the national act. Continue »
A San Francisco man and his Australian husband will be forced apart when the Australian is deported this month after the federal government denied his request to be a permanent resident. Continue »
LOS ANGELES State lawmakers considered a record number of immigration-related bills this year, highlighting their continued frustration with federal government inaction on immigration laws, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Continue »
Adding insult to injury, the Homeland Security Department has turned its back on state and local governments by deciding to unilaterally implement the discredited Secure Communities deportation program. The decision to impose the Obama administration's signature enforcement program was announced last Friday. Continue »
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is facing a Wednesday deadline to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to consider her appeal of a lower court's ruling that put parts of the state's aggressive anti-illegal immigration law on hold. Brewer, a Republican, vowed this spring to take the case to the high... Continue »