Tuesday, July 26, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement will hold a hearing on the HALT Act, a bill that would suspend discretionary forms of immigration relief until January 21, 2013—the day after the next Presidential inauguration.
AZ anti-immigrant leader to fall!
Cheryl Arredondo is part of a growing online demographic: American-born wives of deported immigrants who are using blogs, forums and Facebook to find support and sanity. Their spouses entered the country illegally and, when the immigration system caught up with them, their wives relocated to Mexico to keep the family together.
Guatemalan man with a U.S. family is threatened with deportation.
New York State Dumps Secure Communities!
A private management company will house up to 1,300 immigration detainees in Southern California after an agreement between the company, the city of Adelanto and Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials announced Wednesday.
Some pundits and political operatives — mostly Democrats — have already announced the demise of the Republican Party. Contrary to the claims made by some, the record shows that Republicans will continue to attract Hispanic voters, and more Republican Hispanic candidates will be elected to public office. Perhaps that’s what really worries some of the critics.
House Chairman of the Judiciary Lamar Smith has written an op-ed for Politico, which is an interesting take on the dynamic between Hispanic voters and the GOP's increasingly enforcement centric agenda on immigration. Lets just start with the title of the op-ed, which to these eyes is a little condescending, "Hispanics like law and order too".
By a 61-53 vote, the House approved and sent to Gov. Pat Quinn legislation that would set up a state fund that would route privately funded college scholarships to as many as 95,000 children of undocumented immigrants. Quinn has expressed support for the legislation, whose chief House sponsor was Rep. Edward Acevedo (D-Chicago).
Despite touting his parents’ Cuban heritage and his wife’s Colombian roots, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio isn’t taking the lead on immigration legislation — and that’s drawing the ire of those who put him in office.
The decision by the Supreme Court this week upholding an Arizona law punishing employers for hiring illegal immigrants was an energy boost for state lawmakers across the country who have proposed bills this year to curb illegal immigration.
The three UNLV law students thought they had a pretty routine case to argue before the federal judges, but they got far more than they bargained for. They emerged from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals with an unexpected landmark immigration victory that means tens of thousands of people, maybe more, who are fighting deportation stand a greater chance of proving their U.S. citizenship.
