On August 5, 2011, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) dramatically changed their position on the Secure Communities Program. This program allowed the sharing of fingerprints taken by state and local law enforcement with ICE to identify individuals who were subject to deportation due to violations of criminal or immigration laws. Previously, ICE entered into Memorandums...Read More
Over the weekend, Stanley B. Greenberg published an op-ed in The New York Times explaining what Democrats can do to regain their strength through wide-ranging support. Among the suggested measures was for them to pass comprehensive immigration reform, showing that the Party is an advocate for the control of the borders while also addressing the...Read More
A new report released by the Pew Research Center shows that Hispanic families accounted for the largest single decline in wealth of any ethnic and racial group in the country during the recession. In Florida median home prices dropped 38% between the end of 2005 and the end of 2009, which means that, along with...Read More
We are accustomed to picturing the U.S.-Mexican border as a place rife with murder, arson, theft, kidnapping, and every other violent crime imaginable. The problem is that we also tend to unfairly paint immigrants as the perpetrators of all of this when in reality the violence is associated with drugs and arms trafficking, not immigration....Read More
Florida Governor Rick Scott, who is a strong supporter of the recently halted efforts to pass state legislature to curb immigration through a draconian and discriminatory immigration bill, has announced that he will focus on immigration in the upcoming year. The State Column reports that Gov. Scott said on Tuesday that “he will focus on...Read More
United States Senator Marco Rubio is receiving a lot of pressure from the Tea Party activist group to deliver a campaign rhetoric for tougher immigration enforcement. “We’ve been waiting for him to come up with something and to be a leader on this issue,” said the founder of the Fort Lauderdale branch of the group....Read More
A new bill has been introduced in the United States Senate that would make it easier for the family of service members on active duty to obtain permanent resident status in the U.S. without having to leave the country first in order to apply. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) has reintroduced the Military Families Act, which...Read More
A graduate student from the University of California at Davis who launched a national facebook campaign to avoid being deported to India with her mother won an 11th hour stay last week after immigration officials issued a memo allowing for greater discretion in DREAM Act-eligible cases. Mandeep Chahal and her mother, who are both undocumented,...Read More
Once again, the DREAM Act is up on the discussion board; yet this time its possibilities seem greater than ever. For the first time ever, a Senate hearing has been held to discuss the bill with Senator Richard Durbin (D-Ill) as chairman of the subcommittee holding the meeting. In its current form, the DREAM Act...Read More
In what may seem as the most bizarre situation, a police officer from Boynton Beach who in 2010 was singled out as the “Officer of the Year” has been indicted for conspiring to possess and traffic 500 grams of methamphetamine. The indictment accuses David Britto, 28, of drug dealing from June 2009 until March 4,...Read More
