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.
The Hill | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics
The votes aren't there for the Obama administration to achieve its desired immigration reform, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Friday....
Adam Luna | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics
There's an old saying: show me who you're friends are and I'll tell you who you are.
LabourList | Posted 07.20.2009 | World
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.
Sally Kohn | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics
It's time we confront the fact that behind violently anti-immigrant and supremacist rhetoric is a real urge and a real encouragement for actual violence.
Gary Shapiro | Posted 07.13.2009 | Business
Only American companies have to follow this expensive and intrusive law imposing huge costs on publicly traded companies. Thankfully, relief may be in sight.
Carol M. Swain | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics
I see the June meeting as more icing on the cake in the Democratic Party's shameless pursuit of the Latino vote.
Marlene H. Phillips | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics
Walt Staton of Tucson, Arizona could be sentenced to up to a year in prison and a $10,000 fine. His crime? Leaving water in the Sonoran Desert for illegal immigrants.
Wall Street Journal | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics
Attorney General Eric Holder reversed an immigration order issued in the last days of the Bush administration that limited the ability of immigrants f...
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.
Renee Feltz | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics
Maria del Carmen Garcia-Martinez recently emerged from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding cell in Arizona with her arm broken and her hand covered in blue ink.
Frank Sharry | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics
Those who think Sotomayor's nomination means no on comprehensive immigration reform should consider these four points.
Frank Sharry | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics
Yesterday, the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Immigration held a hearing about border policy. Its chairman, Chuck Schumer (D-NY), has ...
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.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.07.2009 | Politics
Since becoming the top ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Jeff Sessions' record has been almost solely analyzed for tealeaves on ho...
Rochelle Lefkowitz | Posted 06.05.2009 | World
At his press conference this week, President Obama repeated his intent to reform immigration. Who will march this time and hold him to it? Will men and women born in the USA step out?
Simon Rosenberg | Posted 05.31.2009 | Politics
Passing immigration reform this year would help take the air out of the balloon of the most virulent form of racism in American society today.
Sally Kohn | Posted 05.30.2009 | Media
The news media can't understand why Obama would pursue another complicated priority that they can joyfully turn into a political soap opera.
Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics
Compared to the rows of sullen, silent Presidents behind him, Obama looks like a gay rights brown-noser. But when it comes to actual change in the lives of LGBT people, nothing has been done.
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.
Frank Sharry | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics
As we look ahead to Thursday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on common sense immigration reform, it's time once again to take stock of the emerging new politics of immigration.
Ahmed Rehab | Posted 05.24.2009 | Chicago
When leaders like Mark Kirk come up with ridiculous evasions about comprehensive immigration reform, it is not because they are stupid. It is because they have no real solutions.
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.
The Media Consortium | Posted 05.17.2009 | Politics
by Nezua, TMC MediaWire Blogger The dialogue on immigration has, historically, been contentious and cyclical. There are times when hysteria peaks, an...
Steve Ralls | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics
Why is the United States government spending so much time - and so much taxpayer money - tearing this family apart? Simply put, because Shirley and Jay are a lesbian couple.
Naomi Foner | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics