Jan 28, 2011
The new majority in the House of Representatives seems to have found a solution to the problem of high unemployment: workplace immigration raids.
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Yesterday, the Immigration Subcommittee (of the House Judiciary Committee), which is led by notoriously anti-immigrant members of Congress -- Lamar Smith (R-TX), Elton Gallegly (R-CA), and Steve King (R-IA) -- held their first immigration hearing since Republicans took control of the House.
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Despite the fact that Arizona's SB 1070 is highly controversial, absurdly expensive, and likely unconstitutional, Virginia's immigration hardliners continue to push for their own Arizona-style legislation. Here we go again.
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The Spanish-language press reports today that Republicans' response to President Barack Obama's request to cooperate to pass immigration reform was a hearing during which they advocated enforcement-only policies with no solution but deportation for the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States.
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Arizona Senate President Russell Pearce, R-Mesa, is the target of a recall petition.
A community organization called Arizonans for Better Government filed the paperwork with the Secretary of State's Office Thursday afternoon, saying they will seek as many as 15,000 signatures as part of their recall effort.
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Two U.S. senators have taken up the mantle of state lawmakers trying to deny automatic citizenship to U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants.
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Two Republican senators are introducing a resolution that would end the constitutional right to citizenship that comes with being born on U.S. soil.
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A newly proposed Georgia state legislation has a church group fearful that it will be similar to or even go beyond Arizona's current immigration law by affecting babies born to undocumented mothers.
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During the first half of his State of the Union address last night, President Obama argued that "winning the future" would be impossible without fixing immigration. He made the case for both the DREAM Act and comprehensive immigration reform, and challenged the new Republican leadership to step up to...
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Today, the Spanish-language press covers President Obama's statements on immigration during his second State of the Union address. EFE, Notimex, AFP, and Univisión.com, among others, write that Obama called on Republicans and Democrats to "take on, once and for all, the issue of illegal immigration." "I am prepared...
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