What a mess. That's the best way to describe the labyrinth of absurd and outdated laws and regulations that masquerade as America's immigration system. Americans have been forced to live with a system that hasn't been overhauled in decades and was created for a country that no longer exists.
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A federal crackdown on the use of undocumented immigrant labor is expanding. Immigration and Customs Enforcement told a thousand companies on Wednesday that their hiring records will be inspected.
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Many of the lawyers in the audience wore buttons that said "Stop Secure Communities" with the word "shattering" written over the word "secure" as a form of protest against an ICE program that helps identify illegal immigrants booked into jails, including those here in San Diego County, by feeding...
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The law seems particularly bizarre because illegal immigrants are estimated to account for just over 2% of the population in Alabama. But that should serve as a warning to Washington that the issue of immigration is now a nationwide concern, no longer limited to the West and Southwest. President...
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Six months after the Senate voted down a bill to provide legal status to some undocumented students, DREAM Act supporters are mobilizing for 2012, hoping to hold Democrats accountable for failing to pass the bill last year.
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The resolution calls on the government to make border security a priority and to hold businesses accountable for their hiring. It also asks government officials to support "a just and compassionate path to legal status, with appropriate restitutionary measures, for those undocumented immigrants already living in our country."
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The Arizona senator behind last year's controversial anti-illegal immigration law is likely to face a recall vote after opponents gathered enough signatures to force him to stand for re-election early.
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It's been more than 20 years since Miguel Aparicio has been in the United States. He moved here when he was 15 years old with his grandmother. He graduated high school, and with a cross-country scholarship, Aparicio was able to attend college.
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Jun 16, 2011
Yesterday, Congressman Lou Barletta (PA-11) released a statement expressing his strong opposition to Lamar Smith's E-Verify legislation, which would require all employers in the U.S. to use the flawed government program known as E-Verify to evaluate whether an employee is legal to work.
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Today in National Review, Mark Krikorian published his response to our long list of criticisms about the mandatory E-Verify bill that Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) are pushing.
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