Earlier this week, Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy (D) wrote to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) requesting deferred action on behalf of DREAM-eligible student Mariano Cardoso, who is facing deportation despite living in the U.S. since he was a year old and being mere months away from graduating...
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Apr 21, 2011
Rep. Lamar Smith is on the warpath against the state of Utah for passing a law that seeks a federal waiver to create a Utah-based work permit program for undocumented immigrants. This provision was part of a package passed signed into law by Gov. Herbert in March, along...
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This was an important meeting for a number of reasons. First, the President made it clear he is willing to use whatever political capital he has to make the case for immigration reform that can fix our nation's dysfunctional immigration system in a way that ends illegal immigration....
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Despite opposition from the business, faith and education communities, the Georgia legislature just passed an Arizona-like anti-immigration bill, and Governor Nathan Deal said that he plans to sign it. According to Jerry Gonzalez, Executive Director of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials, the bill will "create an...
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Today on a press call, DREAM Act youth and immigration experts described the established legal authority of the President to halt the arrest, jailing and deportation of young people who would be eligible for the DREAM Act. Speakers provided examples of how President Obama and previous presidents have...
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Apr 14, 2011
New analysis of Elton Gallegly's (R-CA) tenure as Chair of the House Immigration Subcommittee shows that his hearings rely on a consistent blueprint and a common underlying goal. Despite the supposed range of hearing topics, they each follow the same formula: pit different groups against each other to...
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A broad spectrum of the Democratic Senate caucus yesterday issued a letter to President Obama urging him to use his authority and grant relief from deportation to young people who would be eligible for the DREAM Act. The twenty-two senators wrote that they "would support a grant of...
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Yesterday, former gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman stated at a conference at the George W. Bush Institute in Dallas, "My view is that the immigration discussion, the rhetoric the Republican Party uses, is not helpful; it's not helpful in a state with the Latino population we have…We as a...
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