Scourge: Illegal Aliens in our Midst
Extreme attempts to stifle illegal human immigration are as counterproductive as extreme attempts to stifle life's ecological imperative.
Extreme attempts to stifle illegal human immigration are as counterproductive as extreme attempts to stifle life's ecological imperative.
Alex Nowrasteh | Posted 05.28.2012
To truly reform immigration, we should look back to the nation's first immigration and naturalization laws, which are a far cry from restrictive laws in Arizona and Alabama.
Posted 12.17.2011
On September 30, 16 Colombians posed as a cheerleading team to try to enter the U.S. illegally at Miami International Airport. When their flight land...
Gustavo Arellano | Posted 01.02.2012
Why do Americans Call Mexicans "Illegal"?
Christopher Brauchli | Posted 12.31.2011
All over Alabama the lamps are out... The fields lie there, with nothing at work in them, neither man nor beast. -- James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famo...
Posted 11.30.2011
The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) voted on Tuesday to recommend that newsrooms across the country discontinue using the phrases "illegal a...
Jorge-Mario Cabrera | Posted 08.27.2011
Now that President Obama has met with influential Latinos, legislators, and community advocates, he should request a meeting with US-citizen families who live with unauthorized immigrant loved ones.
Christopher Brauchli | Posted 08.23.2011
Now that Alabama has passed what some describe as the harshest anti-immigration law in the country, it is interesting to see how Alabama has improved on the harsh anti-immigration ordinances passed by a small municipality.
Constantin Bjerke | Posted 07.29.2011
Aldo Lanzini uses threads, ribbons, felt and wool to make outrageous yet beautiful works - psychedelic masks, ...
AP | IVAN MORENO | Posted 07.17.2011
DENVER — An immigrant suspected of being in the country illegally could receive $90,000 to settle a lawsuit claiming he was unlawfully held in a...
Jorge-Mario Cabrera | Posted 06.13.2011
Americans would be surprised to know that our immigration laws are unfairly, unjustly, and inconsistently enforced. And it's not just unauthorized immigrants that suffer the consequences.
Azadeh Shahshahani | Posted 05.30.2011
The government should also end the unnecessary and inhumane detention of immigrants and instead rely on effective alternatives to detention.
Jorge-Mario Cabrera | Posted 05.29.2011
What did the president's visit to El Salvador, a nation that exports immigrants to the United States by the thousands each and every day, mean to the prospects of updated immigration laws?
Mark Steinberg | Posted 05.25.2011
There are several efforts under way to gut last year's landmark health care legislation. The best known of these is the lawsuit brought by the attorne...
Diane Dimond | Posted 05.25.2011
Our procrastinating Congress ended the first half of its 111th session by once again failing to pass the so-called DREAM Act. The act could have become the first brave and concrete step on the arduous road to immigration reform.
Deepak Bhargava | Posted 05.25.2011
Even while the elite political establishment has been engrossed with the elections, the grassroots has never taken its focus off alleviating the pain felt by people whose lives are affected by our dysfunctional immigration system.
Jorge-Mario Cabrera | Posted 05.25.2011
This week thousands of children will gather in small and large cities in the United States and Mexico to ask Congress to push immigration reform forward and keep families together.
Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011
Beck promised on his radio show that "the hammer" would be coming down on me, and that he would devote a week of his TV show to bringing me down. I took that as a "no" to dialogue, but I've decided to go ahead without him.
Bill Lichtenstein | Posted 05.25.2011
How difficult will it be to enforce Arizona's new anti-immigration law, which gives law enforcement the right to stop and detain anyone who is "reason...
Nathan Gardels | Posted 05.25.2011
If California were a country, here would be the solution to the problem of illegal immigration from Mexico.
Geri Spieler | Posted 05.25.2011
Blaming the victim (illegal immigrants) is nothing more than being unwilling to see who really is at fault: its US business hiring low cost labor and every day citizens who hire domestic help.
Axel W. Caballero | Posted 05.25.2011
Arizona's immigration law is creating a wave of Latino social network activism. Following the signing of S.B. 1070, one of the most anti-immigrant laws in the country, Latinos have chosen to mobilize online in numbers rarely seen before.
John Carlos Frey | Posted 05.25.2011
In addition to supporting more militarization at the U.S. - Mexico border, Mr. Duncan D. Hunter also believes that the removal of U.S. born children of undocumented immigrant parents will help stop illegal immigration.
Mark Olmsted | Posted 05.25.2011
Our knee-jerk reaction is to ask the Attorney General to declare the law unconstitutional. While I support this in principle, I think we might also consider not trying to block it at all.
Disgrasian | Posted 05.25.2011
What does an illegal immigrant look like? Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, who just signed SB 1070 into law last Friday--which allows law enforcement to ...
Paul Schwennesen | Posted 04.13.2012