After Arizona rancher Robert Krentz was killed on his land last year by a man police believe was an illegal immigrant, television networks and more than 300 newspapers wrote about his death as an example of the dangers on the border.
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National immigration legislation, held hostage by contentious partisan politics for the past decade, seems farther than ever from enactment. Yet new Census figures and studies by several nonprofit groups indicate it is the necessary alternative to piecemeal local and state initiatives.
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Yet El Paso, directly across on the U.S. side of the border, is one of the safest communities in the United States – second behind Honolulu.
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Proponents of an amendment to curb birthright citizenship know the measure would never pass. But they're more interested in fomenting anxiety than solving the illegal immigration problem.
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If Howard Dean is known for one thing—it would probably be his, well, excitement.
And at the Howard Dean, Newt Gingrich debate at George Washington University on Tuesday night, it was the DREAM Act that brought this infamous excitement to life.
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House Speaker John Boehner's recent selection of Rep. Elton Gallegly of California over Rep. Steve King of Iowa to head the Judiciary Committee's immigration subcommittee is one step closer to the kind of reform for which past administrations, including those of former Presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and...
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Republican lawmakers in Congress and in more than a dozen state legislatures are trying to alter the interpretation of the 14th Amendment so that the children of illegal immigrants born in the USA are no longer granted citizenship.
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Not in our city.
That's what New Yorkers, from Mayor Bloomberg down to everyday hardworking people, have said to those intent on dehumanizing and persecuting immigrants.
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In 1924, the U.S. Congress passed a law that created a quota for the number of immigrants that could be admitted to the U.S. from any given country.
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From Arizona to Amsterdam, immigration remains one of the most contentious and divisive debates for Americans and Europeans alike. It is also, it seems, a debate fueled by large-scale misconceptions on both sides of the Atlantic.
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