In an effort to ensure their citizens are treated fairly in Alabama, 16 nations, including Mexico, filed briefs against the state's controversial new immigration law that has already drawn fire from the U.S. Department of Justice.
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In anticipation of yesterday's meeting with President Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, the Obama Administration announced policy changes earlier this week designed to make it easier for foreign entrepreneurs' to come and live in the U.S.
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Here's a question: how many border agents does it take to the protect the border?
The real-life answer is that we'll never find out because apparently, a significant number of them have been known to fall asleep on the job.
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The Justice Department and major church groups today went to court to block Alabama's pending illegal-immigration law from taking effect next month. The law, signed June 9 by Republican Gov. Robert Bentley and set to take effect Sept. 1, mimics a similar law in Arizona but goes further.
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This week, the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), the nation's largest Latino civil rights organization, held their annual conference and invited all Presidential candidates. Here's a short summary of what happened: President Obama showed up. The entire Republican field did not.
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Jul 28, 2011
President Obama stepped up to the podium this week to address the largest and most powerful annual gathering of Chicano/Latinos and he was smiling. It was at the same NCLR annual conference that in 2008, then-candidate Barack Obama, made one of the most stirring rebukes of this nation's immigration...
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Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) told CNN's Kyra Phillips on Wednesday his arrest outside the White House on Tuesday was "well worth it." Gutierrez noted that last Thursday, Obama "spoke at the probably oldest and most memorable civil rights organization in the Latino community here in the United States, National...
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Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) told CNN's Kyra Phillips on Wednesday his arrest outside the White House on Tuesday was "well worth it." Gutierrez noted that last Thursday, Obama "spoke at the probably oldest and most memorable civil rights organization in the Latino community here in the United States, National...
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"Yes, you can! Yes, you can!"
Those were the words that were chanted at the NCLR conference as Obama said that he couldn't just bypass Congress and change the laws on his own. The truth is that he actually can. Clearly, he's not getting the message that on immigration, some...
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At the beginning of this year's NCLR conference (that just concluded yesterday), attendees were asked what issues matter most to them and how well they think President Obama has been addressing them. The straw poll's results hammer at the point that poll after poll after poll have shown that...
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