John Tanton

Next week, the Supreme Court will begin hearing oral arguments on Arizona’s arch-anti-immigrant law, SB 1070—an all-important, game-changing clash between the federal supremacy clause, the need for federal immigration reform, and the belief that states can and should pursue efforts to make undocumented immigrants self-deport. Activists, officials, lawyers, and... Continue »

Next week, the Supreme Court will begin hearing oral arguments on Arizona’s arch-anti-immigrant law, SB 1070—an all-important, game-changing clash between the federal supremacy clause, the need for federal immigration reform, and the belief that states can and should pursue efforts to make undocumented immigrants self-deport. Activists, officials, lawyers, and... Continue »

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith is holding yet another hearing on his proposal for mandatory E-Verify.  A blog post by Dara Lind, program associate at America’s Voice Education Fund, highlights Smith’s strong reliance on the “experts” from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), an anti-immigrant think tank founded... Continue »

You might remember E-Verify. It’s House Judiciary Committee Lamar Smith’s pet project to singlehandedly boost the American economy by expanding regulation and costing hundreds of thousands of legal American workers their jobs.  The bill stalled after it passed the House Judiciary Committee last fall, and it’s no more politically... Continue »

March 2012 “Inside the Self-Deportation Movement”: Mother Jones on Romney’s Immigration Adviser’s Plan for a State by State Purge of Immigrants When Mitt Romney began saying that his proposal for dealing with the 11 million undocumented immigrants in this country is to force them to “self-deport,” it may have... Continue »

Last night's Republican debate in Tampa, FL confirmed the fact that Mitt Romney is championing a radical anti-immigrant agenda aimed at expelling 11 million undocumented immigrants – a population the size of the state of Ohio – from the United States. Continue »

Last night's Republican debate in Tampa, FL confirmed the fact that Mitt Romney is championing a radical anti-immigrant agenda aimed at expelling 11 million undocumented immigrants – a population the size of the state of Ohio – from the United States. This strategy, called "attrition through enforcement," has... Continue »

As many opponents of immigration reform work hard to make clear, they are against illegal immigration (because "illegal is illegal") and don't have any beef with people who come here through sanctioned means. Continue »

Last week, the Obama administration released new guidelines for deportations, and we've spent the days since compiling press releases, editorials, and other statements responding to the announcement. Some have lauded the development, some have criticized it, some have adopted a wait-and-see approach, and some have, well, expressed their... Continue »

As we reported last week, the DREAM Act is getting its first-ever Senate hearing tomorrow, despite having been first introduced in 2001 and being reintroduced multiple times since then. Continue »