Stricter immigration enforcement would likely reduce the demand for farm labor and increase the mechanization of California agriculture, according to a new study co-authored by a UC Davis economist.
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New York and Illinois have both withdrawn from the "Secure Communities" Program based on the assessment that it is poorly conceived and misdirected, it has damaged relations with immigrant communities and it has not achieved the goals for which it is was designed.
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The city of Los Angeles will consider throwing its support behind efforts to let local governments opt out of a controversial federal program in which fingerprints of arrestees are shared with immigration agents.
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Latino advocates on Monday condemned a deal that allowed two former state workers accused of compiling and distributing a list of allegedly undocumented immigrants to be charged, enter pleas, and sentenced on Monday.
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Jun 6, 2011
Dear President Obama:
My name is Isaias Vasquez. Last month I graduated with honors from the Bruce Randolph School in Denver. I was the student body president and a leader with Metropolitan Organizations for People.
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The agriculture industry fears a disaster is on the horizon if the one bit of new immigration policy that Congress seems to agree on becomes law.
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Jun 5, 2011
Gov. Andrew Cuomo properly put a hold on New York's participation in Secure Communities, a federal program that partners local police and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement resources to crack down on illegal immigration.
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Jun 3, 2011
President Obama, who has spent two and a half years not delivering on his promise to fix immigration, gave a speech in El Paso last month and cloaked his failure in tough statistics — this many new border agents, that much fencing, these thousands of deportations.
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Last week, the Supreme Court provided yet another sign that the drumbeat of immigration enforcement continues unabated. And with the nation on the cusp of summer, nowhere is the harmful impact of enforcement-only policies more evident than on America's fruit and vegetable farms.
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In his successful campaign to become Florida's governor last year, Rick Scott argued that his state needed an immigration law similar to the controversial statute passed in Arizona, which gives police broad powers to question people about their legal status. He skewered his opponent in the primary for calling...
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