Danbury, Connecticut Mayor Mark D. Boughton is just the latest elected official who wants to act locally to solve a national problem. If he has his way, Danbury police officers will be required to work with Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement Officials (ICE) to round up undocumented workers living in...

Ten years ago, when I moved to a suburb outside of Boston, my neighbors invited me to join a mother's group. Most of us had young children. Most of us also worked at careers we had spent many years at school to master and about which we cared passionately. But...

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to talk to the members of the League of Women Voters about my work on immigration. The demographics of their upper-middle-class northeastern suburb were changing. In the last 10 years, the foreign-born population had grown by nearly 15 percent. Their children now...

One topic neatly sidestepped during the recent Congressional debate on immigration was morality. When immigration reform is framed solely in economic terms, we miss the fact that it is also a moral issue. As a nation, we need to grapple with the question, what is the right thing to do?

On May Day, thousands of people thronged the streets of cites around the country in support of comprehensive immigration reform. These marches triggered the passionate debates we have all become accustomed to. Those wanting stricter controls see immigrants as stealing jobs, overusing services, and embracing values that are antithetical...

"God is Dead," declared Nietzche, or if he wasn't yet, many people were certain he would be soon. So, when the Pew Survey finds that more and more Hispanics claim no religious identity and that their rates of church attendance decline the more time they spend in the United States,...

When the newspapers reported last week that six Muslim men were arrested for plotting to kill soldiers at Fort Dix, "I told you so"s rang out all over the country. They came from people who were convinced by September 11th that all Muslims are extremists who cannot be trusted. They...