Illegal Immigration

2009 Marks the Deadliest Year for Crossing Arizona/Mexico Border

Marlene H. Phillips | Posted 12.28.2009 | Politics


Marlene H. Phillips

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.

Stewart Airport Workers Charged With Using Fake Immigration Documents

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...

Weld County Authorities Illegally Searched Immigrants' Records: Court

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...

Immigration Sweep: Raid Nets 280 With Criminal Records

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...

Architecture for Immigration Reform, a University of Denver Report

Jim Griesemer | Posted 12.10.2009 | Denver


Jim Griesemer

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.

Children Of Illegal Immigrants Twice As Likely As Other Kids To Be Poor

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 ...

Walt Staton: Man Faces Jail After Leaving Water For Illegal Immigrants In Desert

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...

Immigration Bill Could Be Introduced By December

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 ...

Car Impoundment Measure Aimed At Illegal Immigrants Flops In Denver

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...

GOP Health Care Bill WON'T Prevent Insurance Companies From Denying Sick People

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...

The Strange Bedfellows of the Census Boycott

Daniel Cubias | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics


Daniel Cubias

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.

We Can't Reform Health Care without Reforming Food

Bob Cesca | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green


Bob Cesca

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.

Flor Crisostomo, Undocumented Immigrant, Leaving Church Sanctuary After Nearly Two Years

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....

Immigration Rally: Immigration Reform Advocates Gather At Capitol Hill

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...

Thanks to Operation Gatekeeper, Death Toll Increases to Over 5,000

Mary Ann West | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics


Mary Ann West

Fifteen years of failed immigration policy has not lessened the number of undocumented aliens entering the country and has cost millions in dollars.

Jason Linkins

Dobbs Takes Aim At HuffPost Critic

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...

Bill Owens, Former Governor, Has Been Sponsoring Education For An Undocumented Immigrant

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...

Illegal Immigration Crackdown Amendment: Coloradans Express Outrage

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...

Recession Hits Immigrants Hard: Survey Finds Decline In Foreign-Born Residents For First Time In 40 Years

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...

Immigration Battle Heats Up During Health Care Debate

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 --...

Throwing Women Overboard -- Again

Martha Burk | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics


Martha Burk

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?

DC or Bust: Lou Dobbs and His Hate Groupies

Karl Frisch | Posted 10.17.2009 | Media


Karl Frisch

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.

Illegal Immigrants As Less Than Dogs

Yuna Shin | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics


Yuna Shin

"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.'"

Deporting American Citizens: ICE's Mexican-izing of Mark Lyttle

Jacqueline Stevens, Ph.D. | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics


Jacqueline Stevens, Ph.D.

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.

Is Now the Right Time for Immigration Reform? Chuck Schumer, the Sensenbrenner in Liberal's Clothes

Anis Shivani | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics


Anis Shivani

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.