Immigration Reform

Page: << 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 >>

Heading to White House Meeting on Immigration, Paging Governor Napolitano

Frank Sharry | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, White House, Immigration Reform, Immigration, Dhs, Janet Napolitano, President Obama, Politics News

If fervent hopes for immigration reform turn into dashed ones, many Latino immigrant voters who turned out for the first time in 2008 are likely to sit out 2010.

Read Post

Sparks Could Fly At White House Meeting On Immigration

Wall Street Journal | Cam Simpson | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Immigration Reform, Janet Napolitano, George W. Bush, President Obama, Politics News

Sparks could fly at the White House Thursday, as Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano meets leading advocates for an immigration overhaul....

Read Whole Story

America's Broken Immigration System

Wajahat Ali | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Immigration Reform, Immigration, Obama's Immigration Reform, Detained Immigrants, Detention Centers, Mexico Immigration, John Morton, Holly Cooper, Bush Immigration Policy, Obama Administration, Ice, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Florence Project of Arizona, Bill Clinton Immigration, Immigration Debate, Politics News

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.

Read Post

We Can't Wait for Change

Christine Neumann-Ortiz | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Administration, Immigration Reform, Barack Obama Immigration, Stephen Harper, Felipe Calderon, Obama Mexico Trip, Foreign Affairs, Obama Immigration, Barack Obama Immigrants, Immigration, Obama Immigration Reform, Advocacy, Politics News

What President Obama and other Democrats fail to take into account is that the Latino community can't wait till 2010 for justice to arrive.

Read Post

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

Anis Shivani | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Citizenship, Detention, Biometric Identification, 2006 Immigration Bill, Illegal Immigration, Numbersusa, Jeff Sessions, Immigrants, Immigration, James Sensenbrenner, Jim Webb, Deportation, 2007 Immigration Bill, Obama Administration, Peter Schey, DREAM Act, Illegal Immigrants, Tom Daschle, McCain-Kennedy Immigration Bill, Racism, Visas, Earned Legalization, Undocumented-Immigrants, Legalization, Immigration Debate, 1986 Immigration Reform, John McCain, Alberto Gonzalez, Rush Limbaugh, Homeland Security, La Raza, Xenophobia, Amnesty, Lou Dobbs, E-Verify, Chuck Hagel, Jon Kyl, Ted Kennedy, John Cornyn, Immigration Reform, John Ashcroft, Rahm Emanuel, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, 2005 Sensenbrenner Bill, Lulac, Organized Labor, Broken Borders, Chuck Schumer, Mexican Immigration, Torture, National Identification Card, Politics News

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.

Read Post

Obama Embraces Immigration Reform -- But Not Yet

AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Immigration Reform, Obama in Mexico, Obama Mexico, Obama, Obama Immigration Reform, Obama Immigration, Politics News

GUADALAJARA, Mexico — A day before facing a potentially boisterous town hall in New Hampshire, President Barack Obama praised the spirited debat...

Read Whole Story

Good News on Immigration Detention But Keeping the Pressure On

Michelle Brané | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Preventive Detention, Asylum Seekers, Immigration Reform, Obama Immigration, Immigration Debate, Immigrant Detention, Immigration Detention Centers, Politics News

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.

Read Post

There They Go Again: Tom Tancredo, Mark Krikorian and the Politics of Hate and Fear

Janet Murguía | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Immigration Reform, Latina, Nclr, Mark Krikorian, Immigration, Supreme Court Justice Nominee, Center for Immigration Studies, Civil Rights, Hispanic, Republican Congressman, Tom Tancredo, Politics News

The politics of hate and fear are not new to our country. We've seen them before. We know what they look like. Right now, they look a lot like Tom Tancredo and Mark Krikorian.

Read Post

Congressmen Press Obama On Immigration Reform

AP | Posted 09.03.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Danny Davis, Immigration Reform, Bobby Rush, Luis Gutierrez, Phil Hare, Jan Schakowsky, Jesse Jackson Jr., Obama Immigration, Immigration, Mike Quigley, Barack Obama, Chicago News

CHICAGO (AP) -- Seven members of Illinois' congressional delegation are joining immigrant rights activists in pushing President Barack Obama for immig...

Read Whole Story

GOP Latino Outreach Strategy: Oppose, Ignore, Aggravate and Scapegoat

Frank Sharry | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Immigration Reform, America's Voice, Latino Voters, Nclr, Sonia Sotomayor, Latino Voters Republicans, Latino Voters Democrats, Politics News

Events over the past weeks show that the Republican Party still hasn't learned the lessons of the 2008 election. As Senator Tom Coburn might say -- they have some "splaining to do."

Read Post

The Invisible Face of Immigration

Irasema Garza | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Immigration Reform, Women, Labor, Undocumented Immigrants, Women's Issues, Sexual-Violence, Illegal Immigrants, Women and Politics, Immigrant Workers, Sexual Assault, Female-Immigrants, Female Migrants, Women Immigrants, Politics News

Women immigrants are facing impossible choices daily: put up with abuse, or sacrifice their only life line to economic security for themselves and their families.

Read Post

It Would Behoove the Republican Party to Immediately Stop Pissing Off Latinos

Pablo Manriquez | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Immigration Reform, Latina, Undocumented Immigrants, East Chicago, Latinos, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Illegal Immigration, Sonia Sotomayor, Mike Murphy, Republican Party, Hispanic, Republicans, Politics News

However it's fed to the media, what Democrats see in comprehensive immigration reform is 12 million potential votes. Unless Republicans prefer losing elections, they should stand with Obama on immigration reform.

Read Post

Greenbacks for Green Cards

Michael Burns | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Immigration Reform, Illegal Immigrants, Green Cards, Immigration, California Budget Crisis, Politics News

I believe selling one million green cards to a group of sponsored illegal immigrants for $10,000 apiece over the next few years is a potentially great idea.

Read Post

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

Frank Sharry | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Chuck Schumer, Immigration Reform, President Obama, Al Franken, Independent Voters, Appropriations, Dianne Feinstein, Jeff Sessions, Immigration, Amy Klobuchar, Immigration Debate, Jared Polis, Politics News

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

Read Post

American Ignorance

Isabel Kaplan | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Citizenship, Immigration Reform, Immigration, Fourth of July, Newt Gingrich, Global Citizens, Politics News

What does it say about our country if, as I certainly believe might be the case, America's newest citizens know more about American civics and history than many native born Americans?

Read Post

How Progressives Can Deliver on the Promise of Change in 2009 -- Seven Rules for Success

Robert Creamer | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Immigration Reform, President Obama, Employee Free Choice Act, Speaker Pelosi, Regulatory Reform, The Progressive Revolution, Breaking News, Energy Independence, Health Care Reform, Progressive Movement, No Ordinary Time, Majority Leader Reid, Progressive Agenda, Stand Up Straight How Progressives Can Win, Politics News

The critical battles being fought in 2009 are not about "policies" -- they are about the distribution of wealth and power.

Read Post

Don't Enshrine Discrimination in Health Care Reform

Deepak Bhargava | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Immigration Reform, Immigrants, Universal Health Care, Immigration, Health Care, Politics News

A "universal" health care program that leaves out millions of Americans is a fraud and hurts all Americans, not just those who are excluded.

Read Post

Immigration Detainee's Death Causes Controversy

The New York Times | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Citizenship, Immigration Death, America, Pakistan, 9/11, Immigration, Deportation, World Trade Center, Immigration Reform, Green Card, Visa, Prison, Jail, Immigrant, September 11th, Immigration Policy, Ahmad Tanveer, Politics News

When the 43-year-old man died in a New Jersey immigration jail in 2005, the very fact seemed to fall into a black hole. Although a fellow inmate scraw...

Read Whole Story

Love, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

Conor Fortune | Posted 08.01.2009 | Home

Read More: Supreme Court, Senator Robert Menendez, Immigration Reform, Chief Justice Earl Warren, Rep. Mike Honda, Argentine, Houston, Loving v. Virginia, Independence Day, Reuniting Families Act, Immigration, Irish-American, Immigration Policy, Loving vs. Virginia, Home News

Senator Robert Menendez: "Our family immigration system is broken -- it has not been updated in 20 years and many families wait decades to immigrate legally to this country."

Read Post

Weilding ICE Sticks on the Local Beat

Tess Thatcher | Posted 07.26.2009 | World

Read More: Immigration Enforcement, Immigration Reform, Immigration, 287 (G), Immigration Policy, Immigration Debate, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, World News

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.

Read Post

Memo to the President: Yes, Move Immigration Reform This Year

Frank Sharry | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Immigration Reform, Congress, Latino Vote, Barack Obama, Politics News

Mr. President, with so many challenges facing America, is it too much to tackle immigration reform this year?

Read Post

Half Measures for "Almost Americans"

Naomi Foner | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Immigration Reform, Xenophobia, Barack Obama, Politics News

Obama's election was hope for a better deal for many immigrants. And today he came up with his plan. Send them back to their own countries to get in line behind the more patient.

Read Post

Gibbs: We Don't Have The Votes For Immigration Reform

The Hill | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Citizenship, Immigration Reform, Senate, Congress, White House, Robert Gibbs, Press Secretary, Obama Administration, Obama, Immigration, Immigrant, Press, Votes, Politics News

The votes aren't there for the Obama administration to achieve its desired immigration reform, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Friday....

Read Whole Story

Mainstreaming Extremism: What's the American Cause National Conference Cooking Up?

Adam Luna | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: American Cause, Pat Buchanan, Immigration Reform, Peter Brimelow, Tom Tancredo, Right-Wing Extremism, Politics News

There's an old saying: show me who you're friends are and I'll tell you who you are.

Read Post

In Case You Hadn't Noticed: Britain's Got Fascists

LabourList | Posted 07.20.2009 | World

Read More: Uk, Fascism, Immigration Reform, World, England, Immigration, Immigrants, Europe, World News

New York remembers what London has forgotten: that we are all immigrants, even white Britons who can trace their ancestry back to Saxon mud-hut dwellers.

Read Post