Many Latinos are critical of President Barack Obama for having caused an upsurge in undocumented immigrant deportations, believing that Obama has broken his campaign promise to pass immigration reform in his first year in office. This belief may prevent the president from once again receiving two thirds of the Hispanic vote as he did in...Read More
There are countless people who after a lifetime of working hard and doing everything they could to perform at the best of their abilities, they are denied the ultimate recognition that their degrees give them because they are undocumented. All across the country, countless individuals who came to this country to pursue their dream and...Read More
According to news reports, Mitt Romney has distanced himself from campaign manager Kris Kobach who is infamous for his anti-immigrant strategies and has hired Ed Gillespie instead. Kobach, the Kansas Secretary of State, had authored Arizona’s controversial immigration enforcement-only law and had endorsed Romney in January, and had “advised Romney on immigration during his 2008...Read More
Republican elected officials, including Florida’s own U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, are working on a “conservative Republican alternative” to the DREAM Act, in an effort to reach out to Latino voters before the November presidential election. The Congressional newspaper The Hill reported earlier this week that Rubio had no “specifics to announce yet” about his alternative...Read More
With the presidential election approaching, a lot of attention has been focused on the Latino vote yet little attention has been given to the immigrant vote overall and even less to the growing bloc of voters who are the U.S.-born children of immigrants. Although many of these children are still too young, more and more...Read More
It is an undisputable fact that deportation has a particularly devastating impact on the families that are affected by it. When undocumented parents are deported, they face impossible decisions about whether their family will be separated or whether the children who are U.S. citizens will be deported along with their parents. A new report by...Read More
After a string of laws that were aimed at restricting the rights of immigrants, some states are taking matters into their own hands to do the exact opposite. In California, a new law takes effect that prohibits police from impounding cars at sobriety checkpoints if a driver’s only offense is not having a license. The...Read More
Mitt Romney, the preferred Republican candidate by many, is taking a very hard line on immigration even as the primaries heads towards states that are heavily populated by immigrants, especially Hispanics. Curiously enough, Romney-a Mormon by creed and Tea Partier by politics-seems to have gone against his church by aligning his suggested immigration policies with...Read More
The newly released Department of Homeland Security 2013 budget includes overall cuts to the agency with the exception that it secures funding for the controversial immigration enforcement program Secure Communities. The budget for 2013 shows that ICE “will begin by discontinuing the least productive 287(g) task force agreements in those jurisdictions where Secure Communities is...Read More
The U.S. government promised interpreters and thousands of people who helped with the war effort in various areas of specialty that they would be the first in line for special visas to the United States. But as the pace of visa approvals has slowed to a crawl, that promise rings hollow for people like Tariq...Read More
