Jul 1, 2011
Imagine an undocumented high school student who won't let a little thing like not being in the country legally stop him from applying to a top university. Those who set their sights on Harvard will often seek me out for advice because, almost 20 years ago, I wrote a...
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How much immigration do we need? Which of the would-be immigrants should get priority? How can employment-based immigration be more responsive to changing economic realities? These questions are important and they do not have simple answers.
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Georgia is about to change. Significantly. And not for the better. July 1 brings the effective date of two very different new state laws, each bearing witness to what can best be described as the "coarsening" of Georgia. These and other laws signal a changed state, one ripped from...
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College students and graduates campaigning for passage of the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, heard yesterday in a Senate subcommittee, staged a mock graduation ceremony this morning in Washington, D.C.
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Undocumented journalist Jose Antonio Vargas and other young people without legal status called on Wednesday for the president to stop deporting students who entered the United States as children as part of administrative relief for a limited number of undocumented immigrants.
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Alabama is the latest state to see a mass exodus of Hispanics after passing a strict illegal immigration law, leaving construction firms without employees to rebuild the state after its April killer tornado, Bloomberg News reported.
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The Texas Senate adjourned this week without a final vote on the "Sanctuary Cities" legislation that was one of Gov. Rick Perry's "emergency" items at the start of the year. The bill, which became an umbrella for a package of harsh immigration measures, crumbled during a 30-day special session...
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Immigrant rights advocates will serve the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department with a summons to get information about the department's participation in immigration enforcement programs and data about deportations.
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Last week, Houston homebuilder Bob Perry and San Antonio grocery store magnate Charles Butt stuck their noses into the Legislature's misguided effort to solve a "sanctuary cities" problem that doesn't exist.
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Twenty-one-year-old Angelica Hernandez stood proudly when Sen. Dick Durbin introduced her to his colleagues Tuesday as the 2011 valedictorian of the mechanical-engineering class at Arizona State University. But even as the Phoenix resident was being acknowledged for her accomplishment, she was being publicly identified as an illegal immigrant in...
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