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U.S. to House Children from Central America at AF Base
By Melissa Del Bosque, Texas Observer When there is unrest in Latin America, the U.S.-Mexico border is often the first place to feel it as refugees flee violence or economic insecurity. […]
Why Cain’s Electrified Fence Is Not So Shocking
By Hector Balderas, New Mexico Senate Candidate -D An electrified fence. On the border. Designed to kill people. Along with “real guns with real bullets.” This is the immigration “plan” […]
No Casa Blanca For The GOP
By María Cardona As a Democrat, predictably, I find all of the presidential candidates and the policies they support anathema to everything I believe this country needs right now. Their […]
Rick Perry Walks An Immigration Tightrope
In what may have been the most surreal moment of the present GOP presidential campaign, Arizona’s sheriff Joe Arpaio tweeted this: Just received phone call at my house from TX. […]
Obama’s Immigration Plan B: Similar To Comprehensive Reform
Somewhere in a White House West Wing strategy room there must be an outline of an immigration policy plan scrawled on a whiteboard. And I imagine that the plan is as […]
FBI’s Secure Communities Push For Biometric Data
By Melissa Del Bosque Last year the Dept. of Homeland Security led local government officials to believe that they could opt out of the Secure Communities program if they felt […]
Are the Undocumented Bullish on the Economy?
I’m not sure what this indicates, and I’m open to suggestions form all of you out there in NewsTacolandia. The fact is, as reported by the Washington Post, that the […]
Federal Immigration Raids Growing Under Obama
In a very detailed analysis, David Bacon points out that the Barack Obama administration has upped the ante of enforcement against immigrant workers in ways that are either comparable, or […]
Texas adopts deportation program
While the immigration debate has been focused on Arizona and its SB1070 there are developments across the country that merit more than a passing glance. Case in point, a federal […]