Study: Citizenship for Undoc – $1.4 Trillion to Economy
Study: Citizenship for Undoc – $1.4 Trillion to Economy
By Caroline Fairchild, Huffington Post Latino Voices Attention Congress: A partial solution to improving the economy may actually be buried within another political battle all together. Granting undocumented immigrants immediate citizenship […]
Latest on Immigration Reform: A Deal is Close
Senate Gang of 8 close on immigration deal By Erica Werner, Associated Press/U.S. News & World Report A bipartisan group of senators is nearing agreement on a comprehensive immigration bill that […]
CA 4th Graders Unite to Bring DREAMer Classmate Home
By Diana Bohn, Berkeley Daily Planet Rodrigo was a happy nine-year-old fourth grader at Jefferson Elementary School in Berkeley, where he lived since he was two years old. On January […]
NC Scraps Proposed Pink-striped License for Undoc
By Associated Press/The Independent North Carolina said Thursday it is abandoning its plan to issue pink-striped driver’s licenses to certain undocumented immigrants, beset by mounting criticism of the specially designed […]
What GOP Can Gain & Lose Among Latinos & Immigration Reform
By Matt Barreto, Latino Decisions Recently there have been a series of high profile endorsements for comprehensive immigration reform from the Republican Party. Immediately after the November 2012 election Bobby Jindal made […]
Survey: Over Six in Ten Americans Back Citizenship
By Ted Hesson, ABCNews/Univision Over six in ten Americans think undocumented immigrants should be given a path to citizenship, according to a survey released Thursday by the Brookings Institution and the Public […]
Mother Faces Deportation for Having Barking Dogs
By Jennie Pasquarella, ACLU of Southern California and Axel Caballero, Cuéntame Where would you expect to find half-a-dozen patrol cars on New Year’s Eve? In Bakersfield, California, ranked in the highest […]
G.O.P. Opposition to Immigration Law Is Falling Away
By Ashley Parker, New York Times Republican opposition to legalizing the status of millions of illegal immigrants is crumbling in the nation’s capital as leading lawmakers in the party scramble to […]
Latinos Extend Reach Beyond Enclaves
By Miriam Jordan, Wall Street Journal South Americans, Puerto Ricans and Cubans are settling among the existing U.S. population more readily than Mexicans, the nation’s largest Hispanic group, a trend […]
Supreme Court to Hear Case on Arizona Immigration Law
By Jacques Billeaud and Jesse J. Holland, Associated Press/TIME The Supreme Court will consider the validity of an Arizona law that tries to keep illegal immigrants from voting by demanding all state residents show documents […]