Bill Donahue (not to be confused with this guy, talk show host Phil Donahue), president of the Catholic League for Civil and Human Rights, has added his voice to the chorus of people who have come out against the Alabama immigration law.
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The California Legislature is poised to pass a law that would allow illegal immigrants to receive state-financed aid for college. Known as the California Dream Act, the bill underscores the ways states are navigating their own way through controversial immigration issues, as the Obama administration has been unable to...
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Ten years ago, an Albanian immigrant agreed to help the Justice Department build a case against a mobster accused of human smuggling. In exchange, he says, federal prosecutors promised him a green card and protection for his family. But the mobster fled the country, and the informant, Ed Demiraj,...
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In the most recent example of sending mixed signals about illegal immigration, a federal judge has temporarily blocked Alabama's far-ranging new immigration law, which is widely seen as tougher and more cruel than the infamous "papers, please" one that Arizona adopted a little over a year ago.
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Imagination is the key tool missing in the political arena. Immigration policy, especially, suffers from a lack of creative solutions and imagined possibilities for a better future, not just for immigrants but for all of us. The undocumented population recently was estimated at approximately 12 million.
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The headlines today are too often punctuated with unfortunate stories about immigrants: people struggling under or around fences into border states, or Middle Eastern immigrants who are too often suspected of being terrorists because of the clothes they wear or the length of their beards.
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As we've written about in post after post, a seismic demographic change is underway in the U.S., but both political parties still seem to be ignoring the facts and their electoral implications.
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The Obama Administration's announcement that it will bring its deportation practices in line with common sense law enforcement priorities has generated the predictable outcry from mass-deportation advocates, who incorrectly have characterized the sensible policy announcement as a "backdoor amnesty." But, immigrants should listen to Rep. Gutierrez and ICIRR, not...
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There's been a lot of discussion about the Obama Administration's new deportation policy. One thing that is crystal clear is that the policy is well within the President's authority. At The New Republic, Nathan Pippenger explained this, and Mark Krikorian agrees.
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Opponents of illegal immigrants are so busy portraying the Obama administration's new relaxed deportation policy as a back-door amnesty program that Rep. Luis Gutierrez is worried some people are going to get the wrong idea, namely the immigrants themselves.
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