Dec 9, 2009
The time has come for the U.S. government to focus on other aspects of immigration besides enforcement, a panel of national security and law- enforcement experts said Tuesday.
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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will go before the Senate Judiciary Committee today to talk about progress made in border protection and what remains to be done: immigration law reform.
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Lawmakers on Capitol Hill will get an earful this week about why it's time for Congress to tackle comprehensive immigration reform, and Janet Napolitano, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, will likely be making this case when she appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, December 10th.
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Napolitano, who in a major speech last month outlined the aggressive steps her agency had taken to enforce current immigration laws and secure the U.S./Mexico border – including increasing the ranks of the border patrol to more than 20,000 officers, building more than 600 miles of fencing along...
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Dec 7, 2009
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) may not have a chance of passing an immigration reform bill next year, but that's not going to stop him from keeping the contentious issue on the chamber's front burner as he tries to rally Hispanic voters behind what's likely to be a...
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There is no doubt that some native-born workers compete with some unauthorized immigrants for the same jobs. But the vast majority do not. And many businesses, both large and small, depend on the purchasing power that unauthorized workers wield. Immigrants didn't cause the current economic recession, and scapegoating them...
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The current immigration system is an abomination on every level.
Twelve million people live here illegally; they are not going home, but they have no hope of normalizing their status.
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Dec 3, 2009
To many, it seems strange that I, an African-American minister from the Fifth Ward, would focus much of my energy and resources to work along with other leaders in our city for immigration reform. Yet I am a Christian and a disciple with the call to see Christ in...
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The battle in Washington over reforming health care has been in the headlines for months, and Latino voters, like the rest of America, expect to see results. But as a poll released yesterday by Impremedia, Latino Decisions and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation shows, even success in passing health-care...
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A new nationwide poll highlights the importance of immigration reform to Latino voters and the potential political consequences of failure to act on this issue. The poll, from Impremedia, Latino Decisions, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy at the University of New Mexico, found...
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