Nov 24, 2010
We can't close the door on their futures just because they're undocumented. "Is there anything you can do so that my life does not come to a stop when I graduate from Seattle University in two years?"
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This isn't the Thanksgiving they dreamed about when they were camped on the corner of 16th Street and Missouri Avenue, near Sen. John McCain's office. They are Americans in every way but birth and there was a time when politicians on both sides of the aisle recognized the cruelty...
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If you knew that by passing legislation to allow 2.1 million American students to pursue higher education or military service, our government could collect $3.6 trillion over the next 40 years, would you do it?
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Nov 23, 2010
It's unfortunate that a calm discussion of immigration reform has been drowned out by calls for arrests, deportations and sealed borders. But there is one last chance for the lame-duck Congress to strike a blow for sanity on this issue.
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Overwhelming support from Hispanic voters appears to have helped elect Democratic senators in Nevada, California, Colorado and possibly Washington State. Hispanic voters may have kept the Senate in Democratic hands.
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Nov 21, 2010
The DREAM Act sends the message that although American immigration law in effect tries to make water run uphill, we are not monsters. It says that we will not hobble the prospects of young people raised and schooled in America just because we were so perverse to demand that...
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Nov 19, 2010
Congress should take up the DREAM Act because it's the right thing to do. It's wrong to visit the sins of the parents onto their children. Many illegal immigrants getting ready to attend college came here as young children. They didn't cross a border. They were yanked across the...
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Latinos are fed up with congressional delays over comprehensive immigration reform. The time has come for President Obama and the Democrats to man up in the lame-duck session and at least fight to pass the Dream Act.
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President Obama is urging the passage of the DREAM Act, which would let illegal immigrants who completed two years of college or military service become citizens, during the lame-duck session of Congress, but pro-immigration activists worry that there's not a lot of grit behind the president's rhetoric.
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Nov 15, 2010
Pushing the divisive 'anchor babies' rhetoric is no road to immigration reform and will only make Latino voters more suspicious of GOP motives than they've already become.
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