May 12, 2011
FOR THE THIRD TIME in as many weeks, President Obama and his top domestic policy advisers hosted a group of prominent Hispanics and immigration experts the other day at the White House. That was followed by a policy speech on immigration reform Tuesday in El Paso.
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The Indiana General Assembly boiled with controversy this year as lawmakers considered new rules for unions, teachers, schools and abortion providers. But perhaps no issue stoked more emotion than immigration.
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Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) signed off on legislation Tuesday that extends in-state tuition breaks to illegal immigrants, setting up a showdown with opponents who have already started gathering petition signatures to try to force a referendum on the law.
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President Obama came to this border city on Tuesday to argue that he is doing his part to crack down on illegal immigration, and that Republicans must now join him in overhauling the nation's immigration laws for the millions of workers already here illegally.
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Utah insists its new immigration law is different than Arizona's, but the 1-day-old statute is similarly stuck before a federal judge who will hear arguments in two months about its constitutionality. U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups issued his ruling Tuesday in Salt Lake City just 14 hours after the...
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President Obama laid out a plan in El Paso on Tuesday that would continue to strengthen security along the southwest border, make it harder for businesses to hire illegal immigrants and overhaul the nation's visa system to attract better-educated foreigners to study and work in the United States.
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President Barack Obama on Tuesday tried a new tack on immigration, saying that beefed-up security along the U.S.-Mexico border has proved effective enough that it should draw Republican support for an overhaul of the nation's naturalization system.
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In face of statements by Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, three legal scholars in California have offered their opinions on recent developments surrounding immigration enforcement in California and "Secure Communities" (S-Comm) a program run by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that automatically shares fingerprints at the point...
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Call it the immigration paradox. For years, in good economic times and bad, polls have consistently found that most Americans believe immigrants who are in the United States illegally should be provided a pathway to legal status if they take steps such as paying a fine or learning English....
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May 10, 2011
Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) signed off on legislation Tuesday that extends in-state tuition breaks to illegal immigrants, setting up a showdown with opponents who have already started gathering petition signatures to try to force a referendum on the law.
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