His middle name is Diego, so I'm going to call him that, and I'll tell you he's 23. But if I give away too much identifying information, he's sure to lose his job. Or worse. Diego, who works in retail, was born in Mexico and got some tough news...
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Education and immigration reform dominated Tuesday's meeting of the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness on ways to boost the nation's struggling economy. The council met at cloud-services provider VM Ware's headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif., to solicit ideas on how to jump-start the economy and create more jobs.
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For months, civil and immigrant rights groups have urged the Obama administration to join their court fight against Georgia's tough new law targeting illegal immigration. A group of Atlanta-area immigration attorneys went so far as to sue the White House in federal court here, seeking to compel it to...
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Rep. Elton Gallegly's hometown paper, the Ventura County Star, editorialized in support of Californian's DREAM Act and noted the failure of federal authorities to deal with this issue. Gallegly is one of the federal authorities who deserves a lot of the blame.
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Here's a question: how many border agents does it take to the protect the border?
The real-life answer is that we'll never find out because apparently, a significant number of them have been known to fall asleep on the job.
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The Department of Justice is putting a stop to the madness in Alabama, and is challenging the state's very anti-immigrant law, HB 56. From the press release yesterday: "Today's action makes clear that setting immigration policy and enforcing immigration laws is a national responsibility that cannot be addressed through...
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Calling it a "whitewash," local Latinos and advocates slammed Monday an internal investigation by a federal immigration agency that dismissed allegations of abuse and profiling. And they called for the community to start videotaping federal agents whenever they target minorities.
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Gov. Pat Quinn on Monday signed a measure into law creating a privately funded scholarship program for documented and undocumented immigrants, a move supporters hailed as a civil rights victory as other states have recently moved in the other direction on immigration.
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When Maryland's legislature passed a law called the Dream Act allowing undocumented immigrant students to pay in-state college tuitions, opponents vowed to repeal the bill. Now Dream Act advocates want to challenge the challenge.
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Arguing that the federal government sets immigration policy, the Justice Department has filed a lawsuit to stop Alabama's toughest-in-the-nation law before it takes effect on Sept. 1. The lawsuit, filed Monday in federal court in Birmingham, is the third major legal challenge to the Alabama law.
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