Romney’s Self Deportation Rhetoric Is Offensive To Latinos

Romney’s Self Deportation Rhetoric Is Offensive To Latinos

Mary Mata January 25, 2012

By Eliseo Medina, SEIU Has Mitt Romney forgotten that Latinos speak English as well as Spanish? How else can he explain his double talk when it comes to the Latino […]

María Hinojosa Film Sparks Immigrant Sexual Abuse Inquiry

Mary Mata January 17, 2012

Democratic Congressman Jared Polis co-authored a letter this week asking the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to launch an investigation into sexual violence against immigrants in the custody of the Department […]

New Immigration Rule To Bring Relief To Mixed Status Families

Mary Mata January 9, 2012

By Melissa del Bosque I never thought I’d have the pleasure of writing this, but the Obama Administration proposed an immigration rule change Friday that will relieve the suffering of […]

Obama’s Newest Immigration Policy Not Being Enforced

Mary Mata November 10, 2011

By Palma Yanni, AILA Media-Advocacy Committee On November 10, 2011, the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and the American Immigration Council (AIC) issued a report chronicling the implementation of Immigration and Customs […]

4,000 U.S. Citizens Wrongly Detained By ICE

NewsTaco October 25, 2011

What are the odds of an American citizen being accidentally detained or deported by U.S. federal officials? It’s not the kind of thing that Vegas book makers would think of; […]

Common Sense Missing From Obama Admin Immigration Reviews

Mary Mata September 26, 2011

By Matias Ramos, otherwords.org Now that the electronic shackle is off, it’s really nice not having to listen to the eerie computer-voice commands regularly broadcast from its plastic speaker. [Matias […]

New Hotline Offers Advice For Undocumented Immigrants

Mary Mata September 21, 2011

Operating out of Chicago, a hotline providing legal aid and assistance to undocumented immigrants is moving out of its trial stage and was formally introduced this week. The Chicago Tribune […]

Deporting Haitians Only Aggravates Recovery Efforts

Mary Mata June 22, 2011

Port-au-Prince, Haiti — Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, many governments seem to believe that deporting Haitians back to Haiti is a good idea. Despite the painstakingly slow progress to rebuild […]

New Obama Memo May Let DREAMers, Vets, Avoid Deportation

Mary Mata

On Friday the Obama Administration issued a memo that apparently enacts several portions of the DREAM Act. The memo, from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), notes that employees (agents, lawyers, […]

States React Differently To Immigration Law

Mary Mata June 10, 2011

A controversial immigration enforcement program has been suspended in New York, while Texas looks to expand it. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo recently suspended the Secure Communities program, which is […]