In the immigration debate, some things never change. One is that opponents of immigration reform will use it as a wedge issue and will blame everything from unemployment to rising health care costs on immigrants.
Rep. Luis Gutierrez | Posted 12.14.2009 | Politics
The time for waiting is over for laws that don't just secure our border, but go further to secure our economy, protect our workforce and recognize the proud tradition of immigrants seeking the American Dream.
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...
Eliseo Medina | Posted 12.11.2009 | Politics
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.
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.
AP | IVAN MORENO | Posted 12.09.2009 | Denver
DENVER — Millions of undocumented people in the U.S. should be given a path to legal status after the country finds a way to stop illegal immigr...
Los Angeles Times | Posted 12.07.2009 | Los Angeles
Predator drones, the unmanned aircraft used by the U.S. military in the Iraq and Afghanistan war zones, will soon be employed to track illegal immigra...
Dylan Loewe | Posted 12.07.2009 | Politics
The best thing that can happen to the Democrats for the long-term in 2010 is to lose just enough seats that a) it won't impact their majority, but that b) the Republicans will think they won big.
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...
Victor Corral | Posted 12.04.2009 | Politics
If we want to ensure a real and sustainable economic recovery, we must pass inclusive, comprehensive immigration reform that legalizes immigrants in the US.
María Elena Durazo | Posted 12.03.2009 | Los Angeles
Longtime immigrant basher Lou Dobbs recently declared on Telemundo that he's now one of the Latino community's "greatest friends, and I mean for us to work together."
Jim Wallis | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics
The broken nature of America's immigration system is deeply felt during the holidays by millions in the United States who long to be reunited with their loved ones.
Frank Sharry | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
The 2010 Census will have a profound effect on the U.S. political landscape. An astonishing number of states will owe new Congressional seats, in large part, to their new Latino constituents.
John Lundberg | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living
Lou Dobbs resigned from CNN on Wednesday night. Newsweek's longtime senior editor Jerry Adler published a poem in honor of the occasion entitled "Goodbye, Mr. Dobbs."
Dawn Teo | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics
PHOENIX, AZ -- A scuffle ensued Saturday when members of the National Socialist Movement (Neo-Nazis) found themselves shut out of an anti-immigration ...
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 ...
Roberto Lovato | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media
As I watched the sad eyes of Lou Dobbs last night while he bade an abrupt farewell to his long career at CNN, I shed the tears that he apparently couldn't. I was inspired by the power of the movement to oust him.
Gov. Dick Lamm | Posted 11.12.2009 | Denver
Does immigration help our health care system? Will doubling our population help us build a more fair and just America? Do you want an America of one billion people?
Tom Watson | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics
A year ago Sunday, a group of teens left Marcelo Lucero bleeding and dying on a street in Patchogue, New York - with a knife wound to the chest. Lucer...
Robert Creamer | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
As I watched Obama's victory speech a year ago, I thought that America was on the brink of a new progressive era. I believe that just as strongly one year later, as well as in the slogan, "Yes We Can."
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.
Mario Solis-Marich | Posted 10.30.2009 | Denver
Law enforcement believes that the shots were from straying area hunters and claim that shots are fired in the area during hunting season very, very often.
Seth Freed Wessler | Posted 10.26.2009 | New York
Immigrations agents at Rikers regularly deceive people they suspect of not being citizens and rope them into the deportation system by violating their legal and human rights.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.24.2009 | Media
Fox News reporter Geraldo Rivera spoke at a luncheon sponsored by El Diario La Prensa NY yesterday, during which he unleashed a devastating critique o...
Seth Freed Wessler | Posted 10.24.2009 | Politics
Families are being torn apart by deportation at the treacherous intersection of immigration enforcement and the criminal justice system.
Rep. Luis Gutierrez | Posted 12.16.2009 | Home