Immigration Debate

Fighting for Workers?

Eliseo Medina | Posted 12.11.2009 | Politics


Eliseo Medina

Members of the anti-immigrant Immigration Reform Caucus in Congress are now trying to co-opt a "pro-worker agenda" in a ruthless effort to push their extremist mass deportation agenda.

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.

Stupak: The Worst Case Scenario for Latinas

Rocio L. Córdoba | Posted 12.07.2009 | Los Angeles


Rocio L. Córdoba

Health care reform must protect access to comprehensive reproductive health care, including abortion services coverage, and ensure that all Californians, including immigrants, are covered.

Without an Inclusive Job Policy, There Will Be No Recovery

Victor Corral | Posted 12.04.2009 | Politics


Victor Corral

If we want to ensure a real and sustainable economic recovery, we must pass inclusive, comprehensive immigration reform that legalizes immigrants in the US.

To Bill O'Reilly: You Lose Dobbs Bet

J. Richard Cohen | Posted 11.18.2009 | Media


J. Richard Cohen

Dear Bill, You lost the bet. Time to pay up! Sincerely yours, J. Richard Cohen

CNN Drops Dobbs: To All Those Who Joined Us in the Drop Dobbs Campaign

Janet Murguía | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media


Janet Murguía

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.

NJ Law Enforcement Appear to Contradict Dobbs' Version of Gunfire Incident

Isabel Macdonald | Posted 10.30.2009 | Media


Isabel Macdonald

New Jersey state police appear to be contradicting CNN Host Lou Dobbs' account of a gunfire incident near his Sussex County, New Jersey, house.

Let's Be on the Right Side of History

Deepak Bhargava | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics


Deepak Bhargava

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.

Gustavo De La Rosa, Mexican Human Rights Activist, Detained By U.S.

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...

Republicans Push Immigration Measure To Take Focus Off Health Care

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...

Joe Arpaio Enforcement Powers Cut By Fed After Racial Profiling Complaints

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...

Wilmer Rivera Melendez: Man Arrested In Brooklyn Fraud Scheme Targeting Guyanese Immigrants

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...

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 --...

Post-9/11 Immigration Debate Needs Shift in Focus

Rinku Sen | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics


Rinku Sen

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.

America's Broken Immigration System

Wajahat Ali | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics


Wajahat Ali

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.

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.

Good News on Immigration Detention But Keeping the Pressure On

Michelle Brané | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics


Michelle Brané

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.

How to Be Pro-American

Deepak Chopra | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics


Deepak Chopra

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.

What the NAACP Means to Me

Rinku Sen | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics


Rinku Sen

The essential challenge facing the NAACP is being a racial justice leader in a multiracial nation.

Schumer Says Reform by Labor Day, While Cowardly Democrats Vote with Sessions

Frank Sharry | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics


Frank Sharry

Why are Democrats letting Senator Sessions set the agenda with empty, irrelevant, "build the fence bigger" immigration amendments?

Holder Pushes Hate Crime Bill in Wake of Recent Wave of Hate

Janet Murguía | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics


Janet Murguía

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.

Weilding ICE Sticks on the Local Beat

Tess Thatcher | Posted 07.26.2009 | World


Tess Thatcher

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.

Reform Immigration for America

Deepak Bhargava | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics


Deepak Bhargava

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.

Persecuted Often Find Prison in the United States

Human Rights First | Posted 06.19.2009 | World


Human Rights First

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.

National Day of Action - May 1st

Christine Neumann-Ortiz | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics


Christine Neumann-Ortiz

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.