The federal government knows closing the border is an inoperable idea. The focus should be on education and vaccine development, and above all avoidance of scapegoating.
AP | SOPHIA TAREEN | Posted 05.31.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — The timing is not the best. Immigration-rights rallies are set for Friday as health officials try to clamp down on a swine flu epidemi...
Joel B. Schwartzberg | Posted 04.30.2009 | Media
This week's special NOW on PBS investigation of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a hard-line sheriff from Maricopa County, Arizona, received an unprecedented avalanche of responses from NOW viewers.
Dawn Teo | Posted 04.17.2009 | Politics
Critics of Sheriff Joe "Tent City" Arpaio have been celebrating but the revelry is premature: Neither Arpaio nor his officers will be prosecuted, punished, or sanctioned.
Dawn Teo | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics
PHOENIX -- The Department of Justice is investigating "America's Toughest Sheriff." Acting Assistant Attorney General Loretta King sent a letter Tuesd...
Jane Guskin | Posted 04.04.2009 | Politics
Any delays in pushing through legalization will hurt its chances. We need to mobilize behind a united demand, and make our voices heard every single day until we get what is needed.
Matthew Palevsky | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics
On Saturday, thousands of protesters walked the streets of Phoenix to air their displeasure with America's toughest sheriff, whose crackdown on the ci...
Foreign Policy | Malcolm Beith | Posted 03.30.2009 | World
Every Saturday for nearly four years, Elena Trujillo has gone to the local department store in Morelia, Michoacán, to pick up money wired home by her...
BBC | Posted 03.23.2009 | World
Italy's government has rushed through a decree to crack down on sexual violence and illegal immigration after a spate of rapes blamed on foreigners. ...
Marisa Treviño | Posted 03.09.2009 | Politics
A new examination of government immigration enforcement strategies uncovers a deliberate attempt to confuse real criminals with those who only lack the proper paperwork.
Henryk A. Kowalczyk | Posted 03.09.2009 | Politics
The present recession overshadows our unresolved immigration mess. Whether we want it or not, we have to address this issue again.
Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 02.21.2009 | Chicago
Three events will collide to put President Obama in the crosshairs of those pushing the anti-"anti-illegal" immigration agenda in this country.
Angela Kelley | Posted 01.11.2009 | Politics
"Smile, You're Under Arrest"--that's the name of a new reality TV show starring none other than Sheriff Joe Arpaio of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Of...
Henryk A. Kowalczyk | Posted 01.09.2009 | Politics
Voices for the meticulous enforcement of the current immigration laws ask to repeat what has failed so far, but to do so with greater determination.
Daniel Cubias | Posted 12.24.2008 | Politics
Any sensible discussion of immigration reform is doomed once it's declared that a guy making sub-minimum wage who lives in constant fear of deportation is really the secret strongman.
AP | Posted 12.08.2008 | Chicago
Just after dawn, shackled illegal immigrants lined up on an isolated tarmac at O'Hare International Airport before boarding a federal jet bound for th...
AP | Posted 11.20.2008 | Chicago
Activists are calling on Barack Obama to fulfill promises to keep immigrant mothers from being separated from their children. That plea came outside ...
Mickey Ibarra | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics
McCain is in the unenviable position of having to talk tough on immigration for the conservative wing of his party without alienating the Latino voters.
Naazish YarKhan | Posted 11.03.2008 | Home
The decline in the economic fortunes of non-citizen households represents a sharp turnaround from the preceding year.
Jessica Catto | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics
As we have crops to pick, hotels to clean, and nails to hammer, a sensible work visa program needs to be reorganized. Our economy needs Mexican workers and vice-versa.
Joel B. Schwartzberg | Posted 09.21.2008 | Politics
Turns out the fence inexplicably cuts through the middle of some properties, while leaving others untouched. Many question if it can keep people from sneaking in at all.
Joshua Hoyt | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics
In America we change broken and stupid laws - that is how women got the vote and Jim Crow segregation was ended. We will have immigration enforcement that works only when we create legal avenues for workers to come to the U.S. to do the many entry-level jobs our economy has created and only when we legalize the 12 million undocumented workers who are already contributing to our nation with their sweat.
Feet In Two Worlds | Posted 09.15.2008 | Home
Although national immigration policy is certain to figure into the big convention speeches and platform announcements this month and will form the cen...
Amy Crawford | Posted 08.10.2008 | Politics
With voters still angry at Republicans in Congress, Democrats are poised to pick up a dozen or more House seats this November. But in Northeast Pennsylvania, Republicans may have a chance to oust a senior Democrat.
M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 07.23.2008 | Home
Jesse Jackson may be mad at Obama for "talking down to black folks" -- but at least Obama never referred to blacks as "them" or demeaningly reminded his audience that blacks are "God's children too."
Tess Thatcher | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics