Dec 13, 2011
By consistently strong majorities, Americans support comprehensive immigration reform. In 2009 as in previous years, voters want the President and Congress to advance a solution that legalizes the undocumented workforce, requires them to pay taxes, levels the playing field for workers and employers, and restores the rule of...
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Immigration issues should be resolved by the federal government using smart enforcement techniques that keep families together, according to a bi-partisan group of state leaders who will announce a new "Iowa compact" tomorrow.
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For years, anti-immigrant activists have scared Republican officials into thinking that GOP voters are rabidly anti-immigrant and oppose any candidate who supports common sense reform. The recent ascent of Newt Gingrich, who has weathered attacks from enforcement-only candidate Mitt Romney over his immigration position, demonstrates conclusively that this line...
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The national debate on the undocumented is filled with inaccuracies, generalizations, insinuations and stereotypes that hinder a reasonable dialogue to achieve comprehensive immigration reform that considers all aspects of this complex issue.
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On CNN's "Face the Nation" Sunday, 2008 presidential nominee John McCain (R-AZ) offered this advice to the Republican field: "The Republican Party has to discuss in as humane a way as possible. We have to have empathy, we have to have concern and we have to have a...
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Nearly a million undocumented immigrants could live and work openly in California with little or no fear of deportation under an initiative unveiled Friday by a state legislator and others. Assemblyman Felipe Fuentes, D-Sylmar, is helping to spearhead the measure, called the California Opportunity and Prosperity Act.
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While analysts try to make sense of the political implications of the ongoing Republican presidential primary dustup over immigration, conventional wisdom seems to be that Republican voters are relentlessly hard line on immigration matters.
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The AP reports that the agriculture industry is worried about enforcement measures like E-Verify, a flawed tool which would evaluate whether or not an employee is legal to work in the United States.
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Mitt Romney has officially staked out the most extreme immigration position possible: the removal of every undocumented immigrant in the nation.
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Citing Scripture and the early history of the United States, six Catholic and Protestant leaders from Kansas called on the federal government to act on comprehensive immigration reform.
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