2009 Marks the Deadliest Year for Crossing Arizona/Mexico Border
For those of us who live in Tucson, Arizona the story goes beyond economics and becomes one of survival, as desperate men, women and children die in the desert we call home.
For those of us who live in Tucson, Arizona the story goes beyond economics and becomes one of survival, as desperate men, women and children die in the desert we call home.
AP | Posted 12.17.2009 | New York
NEWBURGH, N.Y. — Authorities say a dozen workers at a warehouse at an upstate New York airport have been charged with using forged immigration d...
AP | IVAN MORENO | Posted 12.14.2009 | Denver
DENVER — The Colorado Supreme Court ruled Monday that authorities violated the constitutional and privacy rights of suspected illegal immigrants...
AP | AMY TAXIN | Posted 12.11.2009 | Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES — Immigration agents arrested 280 people in California in their biggest push yet to round up suspected illegal immigrants with crimi...
Jim Griesemer | Posted 12.10.2009 | Denver
Trying to deport some 12 million people who can't be found, and most of whom live in families where some members are citizens and some are illegal, is not a realistic option.
Washington Post | N.C. Aizenman | Posted 12.08.2009 | Politics
Of all the disadvantages that U.S.-born children of Hispanic immigrants might confront, none is more significant than being raised by parents who are ...
AP | Posted 12.04.2009 | Home
TUCSON, Ariz. — A judge has threatened to sentence an Arizona man to 25 days in prison for leaving jugs of water in the desert for illegal immig...
Wall Street Journal | MELANIE TROTTMAN | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano called Friday for Congress to consider an overhaul of immigration law early next year, a move that could ...
The Denver Post | John Ingold and Jessica Fender | Posted 11.04.2009 | Denver
A ballot initiative requiring police to impound the vehicles of drivers without valid licenses failed tonight after more than two-thirds of voters opp...
Wall Street Journal | JANET ADAMY | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
Republicans are preparing to unveil their own health bill in the next few days. Minority Leader John Boehner (R., Ohio) said Monday that the plan woul...
Daniel Cubias | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics
I expected the neocons to get upset over the census. What surprised me is that some Latino groups have joined people like noted nutjob Congresswoman Michele Bachmann in calling for a boycott.
Bob Cesca | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green
Without any real changes in how our food is produced, the health care system will continue to bloat and fall apart. Not unlike the insides of an average American body.
Chicago Public Radio | Chip Mitchell | Posted 10.19.2009 | Chicago
A Mexican has moved out of a church on Chicago's West Side where she lived almost two years in defiance of a deportation order....
The New York Times | Ian Urbina | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics
Thousands of immigrants came to Capitol Hill on Tuesday for a day of lobbying and an afternoon rally calling for comprehensive immigration reform. Th...
Mary Ann West | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics
Fifteen years of failed immigration policy has not lessened the number of undocumented aliens entering the country and has cost millions in dollars.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.23.2009 | Media
Scroll down for audio CNN birther-monger Lou Dobbs apparently reads the internets and had many nerves touched by one of our own bloggers, Roberto Lov...
The Denver Post | Karen E. Crummy | Posted 11.23.2009 | Denver
A new book written by Helen Thorpe adds a footnote to the story of an Aurora honor student, brought to the U.S. illegally by his parents, who found hi...
The Denver Daily News | Peter Marcus | Posted 11.22.2009 | Denver
Opponents of a ballot initiative that would require the mandatory impoundment of cars driven by unlicensed drivers are hopeful that voters have become...
Wall Street Journal | CONOR DOUGHERTY and MIRIAM JORDAN | Posted 11.21.2009 | Business
The number of foreign-born residents of the U.S. declined for the first time since at least 1970, as a recession and tight labor market dented America...
washingtonpost.com | Spencer S. Hsu | Posted 11.15.2009 | World
As Congress's debate over health-care legislation lumbers toward a defining test for the Obama presidency, partisans on both sides of another issue --...
Martha Burk | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
As the debate heats up in the coming days, we must paraphrase the question from our foremothers -- Mr. President, how long must women wait for equality?
Karl Frisch | Posted 10.17.2009 | Media
If Dobbs won't end his association with FAIR, which the Southern Policy Law Center has designated as a hate group, CNN should do the right thing and end its association with Dobbs.
Yuna Shin | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
"Last week outside President Obama's town hall meeting in New Hampshire, one protester shouted," Eviatar tells us, "'We don't need illegals,' adding, 'Send 'em back with a bullet in the head.'"
Jacqueline Stevens, Ph.D. | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics
ICE has been deporting over a million people each year. Most are Mexican citizens residing here without legal status. But thousands of those being detained and even deported are US citizens.
Anis Shivani | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics
The Schumer mandate for the undocumented to register within a short period of time, or else be permanently barred from becoming U.S. residents, is a prime example of the law run amok.
Marlene H. Phillips | Posted 12.28.2009 | Politics