Aug 14, 2009
Phoenix is the only city that has federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents embedded in its police department, Gordon said. And each year, Phoenix police
arrest 15,000 violent criminals who are in the country illegally, those involved in human, guns and drug trafficking, he said.
"What we don't do is take...
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Walt Staton wanted to help people, and his tool was a water jug. On the morning of Dec. 4, he and three others drove southwest from Tucson, to the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge, which tens of thousands of illegal immigrants traverse each year.
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As Virginia grapples with a budget deficit brought on by the current recession, state and local policymakers would do well to keep in mind that immigrant communities are a potent force for economic recovery.
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If you think it's embarrassing for an African-American to have to identify himself to the police while in his own house, imagine how humiliating it is for U.S.-born Hispanics to have to prove their citizenship in their own country
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Latino leaders have long called for comprehensive immigration reform. During the presidential campaign, it finally seemed destined for reality as candidates sought the crucial Latino vote.
But today, where's immigration reform on the list of priorities?
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Aug 12, 2009
Last week the Obama administration announced reforms to an immigration detention system increasingly tainted by allegations of abuse. It is estimated that 300,000 non-citizens are held in detention each year, and that number continues to rise. As more immigrants enter the system, the government has been flooded with stories...
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Detained immigrant children and their families were expected to be out of a former Central Texas prison in the next few months, the Department of Homeland Security's special adviser on detention said Wednesday.
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After signing the Civil Rights Act in 1964, President Lyndon Johnson reportedly said Democrats were "signing away the South for 50 years." The Republican Party can only hope that the 31 Republican senators who voted against making federal judge Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic U.S. Supreme Court justice, did...
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Aug 11, 2009
A day after President Obama announced that legislation to overhaul immigration laws would have to wait until next year, the secretary of homeland security played down the need for change in a speech here and took a tough stance on enforcing current immigration laws.
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A newspaper reports that Frederick County has reaped about $2.6 million in the past two years from a contract allowing the county jail to hold federal immigration detainees.
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