Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney touted the endorsement today by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, author of several anti-immigrant laws across the country including Arizona’s SB 1070, on his website. The announcement comes on the same day Romney released a Spanish-language ad in south Florida courting Latino voters. “I’m so proud to earn Kris’s […]
Feds Say Arpaio Discriminated Against Latinos
December 15, 2011 By
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office in Arizona and Sheriff Joe Arpaio routinely discriminated against Latinos, including racial profiling during routine traffic stops and treating legal residents as criminals, the U.S. Department of Justice said Thursday. The findings are part of a 3 ½-year investigation that began in 2008 after numerous complaints alleged sheriff’s deputies were […]
Kids with Undocumented Parents Less Likely to finish High School
October 26, 2011 By
A new study from UC Irvine finds that children of legal immigrants are more likely to complete high school and spend an average of two more years in school than their peers whose parents are undocumented. According to a report in the LA Times, UCI Professor Frank Bean […]
John McCain claims Immigrants Caused Arizona Wildfires
June 21, 2011 By
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) says undocumented immigrants are to blame for the Arizona wildfires. McCain’s comments, which he made following his tour of the Wallow fire site in Arizona on Saturday, have gained national attention after the U.S. Forest Service disputed the senator’s claims saying that there was no evidence that undocumented immigrants caused the […]
Has the State Level Anti-immigrant Push lost Steam?
May 25, 2011 By
Movement on the anti-immigrant front has pretty much stalled. The fervor that was ignited by Arizona’s controversial SB1070 has, in the words of the Associated Press, fizzled. This doesn’t mean that we can put the whole ugly anti-immigrant mess behind us and move on, but it does look like the momentum has slowed and the final lines have been drawn. What […]
8 States Try to Keep Immigration Laws
April 14, 2011 By
Just when you thought it was over… The Week.com is reporting that 8 states, besides Arizona, are working on Arizona-style immigration laws,with the effort to purge their states of undocumented persons. This comes in the aftermath of the partial injunction against parts of the controversial AZ1070. Although it looks like the law will eventually be heard in the US Supreme Court, […]
Maryland Passes Dream Act
April 13, 2011 By
After hours of deliberation over legislation that gives undocumented students access to in-state college tuition rates, Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) has pledged to sign the bill which could allow students to enroll in college beginning this fall. “We are already required by federal law to provide education to any child resident, regardless of immigration or […]
By the Numbers: AZ-Type Law Would Devastate Florida
April 8, 2011 By
Let’s call it the economic imperative; the argument against stringent immigration laws that had success in Arizona and Utah. The argument makes a case in favor of immigrants for a very sound economic reason – immigrants are vital to the economic well being of the state. In Arizona and in Utah the message was carried by state […]
Republican Senators Attempt to End Birthright Citizenship Again
April 6, 2011 By
GOP Senators introduced new anti-immigrant legislation targeting the children of undocumented immigrants. In a statement release Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said, “I am disheartened when Senators who swear by the Constitution in one breath look to re-write it in the next for political gain. The Constitution is clear: if you are born on […]
Deported 4-year-old to Reunite with Parents
March 29, 2011 By
Four-year-old Emily Samantha Ruiz who was deported to Guatemala earlier this month will rejoin her family in New York on Tuesday, according to family attorney David Sperling. As reported in La Plaza, Ruiz, a U.S. citizen was on her way back home from a family trip to Guatemala with her grandfather, when he was detained […]
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