Dear Bill, You lost the bet. Time to pay up! Sincerely yours, J. Richard Cohen
Janet Murguía | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media
Yesterday's resignation came after thousands of people and organizations pressured CNN to stop Dobbs's biased coverage of our community and the immigration debate.
Isabel Macdonald | Posted 10.30.2009 | Media
New Jersey state police appear to be contradicting CNN Host Lou Dobbs' account of a gunfire incident near his Sussex County, New Jersey, house.
Deepak Bhargava | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
Faced now with an incredible opportunity to reform health care, we must ensure we are on the right side of history and our truest values of inclusion.
washingtonpost.com | William Booth | Posted 10.22.2009 | World
MEXICO CITY -- Gustavo de la Rosa looks over his shoulder, notes suspicious license plates, changes his routine. As one of the most prominent human ri...
McClatchy | William Douglas | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
Immigration, an issue placed on the congressional backburner by attempts to revamp the nation's health care system, is percolating again as Republican...
AP | SUZANNE GAMBOA | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has signed up 55 state and local law enforcement agencies to help enforce immigration laws, including an A...
AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 10.16.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — A convicted bigamist posing as a veteran immigration lawyer scammed thousands of dollars from Guyanese immigrants and gave them advic...
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 --...
Rinku Sen | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
We must reclaim the debate and change our language. We need to challenge the criminalization of undocumented workers by labeling them "illegal." We need to stand up for full inclusion of immigrants.
Wajahat Ali | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics
Our tone deaf reliance on the private sectors to perform public functions without an enforceable system of regulations has produced an abusive system depriving individuals of basic rights.
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.
Michelle Brané | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics
Some 440,000 immigrants and asylum-seekers are expected to be detained in the U.S. this year. We need to be realistic. We need immigration reform and that has to come from Congress.
Deepak Chopra | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics
A new kind of Americanism is being shaped now. Obama exemplifies one aspect, looking out on the world and accepting it rather than looking inward to America and rejecting everyone else.
Rinku Sen | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics
The essential challenge facing the NAACP is being a racial justice leader in a multiracial nation.
Frank Sharry | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics
Why are Democrats letting Senator Sessions set the agenda with empty, irrelevant, "build the fence bigger" immigration amendments?
Janet Murguía | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics
Hate has always been present. But the recent spike in violence against immigrants is being fanned by the flames of the anger and hateful rhetoric being voiced in the debate over immigration.
Tess Thatcher | Posted 07.26.2009 | World
New guidelines have tweaked how enforcement should happen, but one hornet that tends to escape high-level debate in the swarm of secure borders is who should be doing the enforcing.
Deepak Bhargava | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics
Americans don't understand is that our system is so broken that there is virtually no legal way for immigrants to come to our country.
Human Rights First | Posted 06.19.2009 | World
Welcoming the persecuted with handcuffs and prison uniforms is simply not consistent with this country's values or its commitments under refugee protection and human rights conventions.
Christine Neumann-Ortiz | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics
Why am I marching on May 1st? Because I am the daughter of immigrants; because working to survive is not a crime; because I believe in the American people who have challenged unjust laws throughout history.
Dawn Teo | Posted 05.20.2009 | Politics
Sheriff Joe, who is famous for his reality show, tent-based jails, and large contingent of immigration enforcement officers, says he never intended to appear before McCain and other senators at Monday's hearing.
Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 05.10.2009 | Politics
One can only hope that quick passage of the UAFA will help people like Karla and Stacy have a fair shot at making a loving committed relationship work for the long term.
Frank Sharry | Posted 05.10.2009 | Politics
The Obama administration gets that a failure to solve the problem of illegal immigration has become a symbol of how Washington ducks when it comes to solving tough problems.
Dawn Teo | Posted 05.08.2009 | Politics
rpaio seemed not to know Al Sharpton, saying, "What is his name? Sharpton? He wants me to resign? Have I got news for him. He can stick that in his pipe and smoke it."
J. Richard Cohen | Posted 11.18.2009 | Media