Today, leading Senate Democrats Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Claire McCaskill (D-MO) unveiled a plan to spend an additional $600 million on border security. This follows months of Republican complaints that the President is "doing next to nothing to secure the border," despite the cold hard fact that spending...
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The Republican Party was for the 14th Amendment before its members started turning against it. But the GOP's website hasn't yet gotten the message.
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Meg Whitman's campaign for California governor is ramping up its efforts to woo Latino voters. Whitman released a new Spanish-language ad yesterday focused on job creation. She's also run a string of recent ads with Spanish subtitles declaring her opposition to the Arizona immigration law and featuring Latino...
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The ACLU of Virginia warned the state's police chiefs and sheriffs not to follow Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's legal opinion, issued this week, that says law enforcement can ask the immigration status of anyone stopped by police officers for any reason.
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The U.S. Senate approved $600 million in emergency funding to help secure the U.S.-Mexican border on Thursday, on the eve of the Senate's summer recess and ahead of an election season in which immigration and border security are shaping up as major issues.
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Though Arizona's SB 1070 went into effect without its most controversial provisions, the legislation's stated intent—attrition through enforcement—is nevertheless gaining traction among anti-immigrant legislators across the nation. In the wake of the law's enactment, other states are coming out in support of Arizona, some developing policy modeled after SB...
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Aug 4, 2010
She beat Poizner by 38 points on June 8, but the damage was done.
"What Steve Poizner did was remind all the Latinos why they haven't voted Republican for the past 16 years," said Allan Hoffenblum, publisher of the California Target Book and a former political director for the state...
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While the most controversial elements of Arizona's immigration law have been placed on hold, some illegal immigrants in the state are deciding it's time to leave. In nearby Colorado, the American Friends Service Committee says more than a dozen families have arrived in just the past few weeks.
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First they were canceling in protest of the state's new immigration law. But now the reason organizations are avoiding Arizona for their conferences and conventions may be strictly business.
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Senator Lindsey Graham took some by surprise when he called for eliminating birthright citizenship and changing the 14th Amendment -- and Lou Dobbs took even more by surprise when he opposed Graham's idea.
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