As a gubernatorial candidate last summer, Georgia Republican Nathan Deal boasted of having backed (as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives) measures to bar undocumented immigrants from federal health care, and public colleges.
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Republicans in Congress have launched a major offensive to force several million undocumented immigrants to leave the United States with a bill that would make it mandatory for U.S. employers to electronically verify workers' legal status. It sounds like a reasonable idea, but the way they want to do...
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The preliminary injunction granted by U.S. District Judge Sarah Evans Barker comes as a blow to lawmakers in the Republican-dominated state legislature who this year have taken a get-tough approach to immigration.
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Despite Arizona Forest Service officials saying that Senator John McCain didn't know what he was talking about when he said that undocumented immigrants start fires, a few other extreme personalities have decided to ignore that fact and are deciding to drive the right-wing narrative by blaming immigrants for everything.
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Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) is promoting his E-Verify program as a "jobs" bill that will ease unemployed Americans' woes. It's telling that the first GOP "jobs plan" introduced this year would send unemployed manufacturing workers in Ohio or Michigan to the fields to pick fruit and vegetables. It's...
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX), Immigration Subcommittee Chair Elton Gallegly (R-CA), and Immigration Subcommittee Vice Chair Steve King (R-IA) -- our "three amigos" on immigraton -- keep advancing their wish list of immigration "reforms" that would tighten the screws on immigrants of ALL statuses.
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In this week's New York Times Magazine, Jose Antonio Vargas -- a 2000 graduate of Mountain View High School and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist -- describes his life growing up as an undocumented immigrant. He tells of his journey to this country from the Philippines at age 12 to...
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The biggest story now in blogs and social media — even bigger than President Barack Obama's Afghanistan speech — centers on journalist Jose Antonio Vargas and his New York Times magazine essay in which he reveals he's an illegal immigrant.
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Today, more than three years after our country entered its deepest recession in decades, the single most powerful (and cost-free) step that the federal government could take to spur job growth – fixing our broken immigration system – is a casualty of partisan gridlock.
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Eighteen-year-old Dulce Guerrero kept quiet about being an illegal immigrant until earlier this year, when she became upset after a traffic stop that landed her mother in jail for two nights. The arrest came as Georgia lawmakers were crafting what would become one of the nation's toughest immigration crackdowns,...
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