sb1070

North Carolina Pastor Gets It For Wanting to Beat the Gay Out of Kids

El Chanclaso | Posted 05.11.2012

El Chanclaso

Pastor Harris was caught saying some of the most vile and disgusting anti-gay remarks aimed at children who are perceived to be gay. You can also hear the audience clapping and giving their approval to his beat-the-gay-out-of-your-son sermon.

From an Arizona Dreamer

Erika Andiola | Posted 04.27.2012

Erika Andiola

We should no longer tolerate individuals like Mitt Romney, Senator Rubio -- and even President Obama -- who talk about the DREAM Act for political purposes, but support the criminalization and deportations of people who we love and care about.

SB1070: The Problem, Not the Answer

Antonio Villaraigosa | Posted 04.27.2012

Antonio Villaraigosa

We don't need a confusing patchwork of 50 state immigration laws. We need a federal solution. This is what both common sense and the Constitution require.

Arizona v. USA: Hate Racism, Support Arizona

Robin Koerner | Posted 05.02.2012

Robin Koerner

The Supreme Court has just heard a day arguments on the case of Arizona v. United States, concerning Arizona's immigration-related bill, SB 1070. When it was originally passed, I was an immigrant resident of that state.

Jan Brewer Slams Democrats For 'Political Stunt' On Immigration

The Huffington Post | Melissa Jeltsen | Posted 04.25.2012

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) hit Senate Democrats on Fox News Tuesday morning, saying the plan to force a vote on legislation nullifying Arizona's cont...

Memo To Supreme Court: Arizona Immigration Law Is No Solution for Broken System

Kristian Ramos | Posted 04.24.2012

Kristian Ramos

The rise of the state-passed immigration movement has been an ideological dead end for the country and a stagnation of real conversation around reforming our current system.

Alabama Fools' Day

Alex Nowrasteh | Posted 04.02.2012

Alex Nowrasteh

On April Fools' Day Alabama's immigration law (HB 56) mandates E-Verify for all employers.

Elise Foley

Arizona Immigration Law 'Unconstitutional,' Opponents Tell Supreme Court

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 03.28.2012

WASHINGTON -- While the Supreme Court justices took up health care, opponents of Arizona's extreme immigration law looked ahead. Eleven attorneys ...

The Arts Revolution: Stop Imitating, Start Voting

Voto Latino | Posted 05.22.2012

Voto Latino

The days of flattery are over. The Latino community now knows that because of their voting numbers, we must take to the polls

Immigration Restrictions Incentivize Corruption

Alex Nowrasteh | Posted 05.13.2012

Alex Nowrasteh

The problem is that our immigration laws give such a massive incentive for immigrants to try to defraud the system that they create similar incentives for immigration and law enforcement officials to do the same.

Request To Reinstate Mexican American Studies Program Denied

The Huffington Post | Laura Steiner | Posted 03.06.2012

Back in January hundreds of students walked out to the streets of downtown Tucson to protest against the cancellation of the Mexican American Studies ...

Liberals Need to Choose: Welfare State or Immigration

Alex Nowrasteh | Posted 05.02.2012

Alex Nowrasteh

The thinking goes, any increase in immigration will increase the number of people on welfare which will increase taxes for Americans. Very few people would want to pay more taxes in that scenario, so most people are skeptical of immigration.

WATCH: Representative Blasts Romney's Immigration Policy 'Model'

Posted 02.29.2012

Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) is on a roll. A few weeks after strongly -- and comically -- rebuffing Newt Gingrich's 'Food Stamp President' claim a...

Ahead of Arizona Primary a Decline in Political Cachet of State Immigration Laws

Kristian Ramos | Posted 04.28.2012

Kristian Ramos

It is disingenuous at best for the Republican Party to say out of one corner of their mouth that our immigration system is broken, then do everything they can to stop any wholesale fix. Our states and our country deserve better.

Misguided Thinking, or Perhaps Just More Hate: Florida's Policies of Denying the Right to Education to its U.S. Citizens...

Ediberto Roman | Posted 04.10.2012

Ediberto Roman

This great state's history demonstrates that if we allow immigrants and their children to prosper, as the Cuban community has amply shown, all of us benefit economically. It is past time to end any discrimination against any United States citizen.

It Would Behoove Barack Obama To Immediately Stop Pissing Off Latinos

Pablo Manriquez | Posted 03.15.2012

Pablo Manriquez

Seizing on President Obama's failure to keep his campaign promises of comprehensive immigration reform, the Republican Party quickly moved to score political points with excitable bigots and chronically jobless white people.

AMP: Favianna Rodriguez's Band of Artists Help Arizona

Voto Latino | Posted 03.03.2012

Voto Latino

Favianna's latest feat is helping organize, the first coalition of artists, writers, and filmmakers working to expose the negative effects of SB1070.

Ethnic Studies Ruling Escalates Arizona Schools Struggle

Michelle Chen | Posted 02.29.2012

Michelle Chen

Analyzing problems in the real world and coming up with solutions. If officials think that's anathema to a sound education, they've given civil rights advocates the most principled argument yet for why ethnic studies is so vital for the next generation of leaders.

The Next Chapter in The Debate On State Passed Immigration Laws

Kristian Ramos | Posted 02.14.2012

Kristian Ramos

One must only observe the harsh effect of Arizona's stagnant economy, the empty fields in Georgia and the potential loss of businesses in Alabama to find why these laws do not work.

Q&A with Janet Murguia, President & CEO of NCLR

Voto Latino | Posted 02.14.2012

Voto Latino

Leading a boycott is not an easy thing to do, and we did it after giving it great thought. Ā But we thought such an extraordinary attack on our community needed an extraordinary response.

Occupying in the Land of SB1070

Diane D'Angelo | Posted 01.18.2012

Diane D'Angelo

Occupy Phoenix faces some unique challenges. Despite the fall of Pearce, we remain an extraordinarily conservative state with a very strong old boy's network - in both parties. Money talks here too, despite foreclosure, unemployment and generally high rates of personal misery. Bucking the system is just not cool - yet.

Cristina Costantini

Jan Brewer Focuses New Book On Murder She Says Was ā€˜Probably' Committed By An ā€˜Illegal Alien'

HuffingtonPost.com | Cristina Costantini | Posted 01.03.2012

If you're Jan Brewer, and Chuck Norris says that you "eat Scorpions for breakfast", what else are you going to name your next book? Scorpions for...

E-Verify E-Viscerates Labor Market

Alex Nowrasteh | Posted 11.23.2011

Alex Nowrasteh

As the Latin American writer Alvaro Vargas Llosa wrote, "Whenever there is a disconnect between the law and reality, reality finds ways of making the law irrelevant." That is happening very quickly in immigration. Intrusive regulatory mandates like E-Verify are just expensive regulatory diversions.

ĀæDid You Know August is Immigrant Pride Month?

Aurelia Fierros | Posted 10.28.2011

Aurelia Fierros

The LA City Council proclaimed August as Immigrant Pride Month, celebrating with diverse events including a commemoration at Dodger stadium with a Dodgers-Rockies game this Sunday, August 28th.

Death for Profit

Axel W. Caballero | Posted 09.24.2011

Axel W. Caballero

Bryan Holcomb, an ex-CCA quality assurance manager, spoke exclusively to CuƩntame's Immigrant For Sale producers to expose the negligent operations at Stewart Detention Center.