Today, the Hispanic press highlights a study from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) indicating that immigration does not depress the wages of American workers. According to the report, titled "Immigration and Wages," Department of Labor statistics demonstrate that the arrival of 9.5 million immigrant workers between 1994 and 2007...
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The president's State of the Union address last week continues to be a hot topic in the Spanish-language press. President Obama's aunt, Zeituni Onyango, faces a deportation hearing after overstaying her tourist visa and having her application for political asylum rejected, as reported by the AP, the EFE, La...
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The President announced his budget Monday, sending many members of Congress into an angry frenzy over $3.83 trillion that Obama had allotted for an array of programs – mostly in an effort to fight against the growing unemployment and to strengthen our weak economy. But some members of Congress...
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Comprehensive immigration reform would grow the economy by ensuring that all workers and employers pay their fair share of taxes and play by the same rules. Reform would raise the wage floor for all workers and end the underground economy where unscrupulous employers take advantage of their workers...
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Two reports with bearing on the immigration debate were released in Washington yesterday: an Urban Institute study finding that three-fourths of the 5.5 million children of undocumented parents were born in the United States and live under the fear that their parents will be arrested, separated from them or...
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Andrea Nill reports at the Wonk Room on White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs' statements yesterday evening, responding to growing criticism that President Obama did not say enough about immigration during his State of the Union address last week. Here is the video of Gibbs' comments: "I think the...
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Yesterday, Rep. Luis Gutierrez sent a political warning to his fellow Democrats: If immigration reform doesn't pass, as promised, Latinos won't vote.
Without progress, the congressman warned that many Latinos would stay home from the polls.
According to exit polls, Obama received 70%...
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Today, much of the Spanish-language coverage of yesterday's community meeting in Los Angeles focuses on Rep. Luis Gutierrez' (D-IL) comments, and in particular his call to attend a march in favor of comprehensive immigration reform on March 21st.
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Today, the AFL-CIO will host a forum in Los Angeles to debate immigration reform. La Opinión reports that the meeting, which will be held in LA's historic Olvera Street neighborhood, will feature Representatives Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA) and Judy Chu (D-CA); Bishop Alexander Salazar of the Archdiocese...
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Following the President's brief mention of immigration reform in the State of the Union Address, bloggers and pundits have begun the postmortems. But advocates in D.C. say that while the election of Scott Brown last month, coupled with the continuing poor economy, have made the job of reforming immigration...
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