Immigration News Coverage

The mayor caves in

07/12/11 | Boston Herald | What on earth could Boston Mayor Tom Menino be thinking? Is there no special interest group he won’t cave in to, no group of so-called advocates he won’t pander to? Even at the risk of the rest of the city’s inhabitants? | Read the story

Has Marco Rubio sold out?

07/12/11 | Washington Post | Poor Marco Rubio. Florida’s junior senator could have been a contender. Instead, he’s become a caricature. In parts of the Hispanic community, Rubio is thought of as just another ambitious politician who is willing to sell out Latinos to curry favor with Anglo colleagues. That’s what you hear from Internet chatter, letters to the editor, Latino listservs and comments on Spanish-language media. | Read the story

Illegal Immgrants Might Be Undocumented, But They’re Not Unskilled

07/07/11 | The Atlantic | My family has long been making pies and jam out of the divine purple raspberry, a cross between the better known red and black raspberry families. The purple raspberry is a delectable mixture of tart and sweet, and purple raspberry pie is literally my favorite food in the world. If I had to pick one thing to live on for the rest of my life, that would be it. | Read the story

Immigration reform

07/06/11 | Las Vegas Sun | The federal immigration court in Las Vegas is swamped. The caseload has more than doubled since May 2009, and that has created a tremendous backlog of cases, as the Las Vegas Sun’s Karoun Demirjian reported this week. In May 2009, it took about 6 1/2 months on average for a case to be resolved. Two years later, it took 9 1/2 months. | Read the story

It Gets Even Worse

07/05/11 | New York Times | If you thought the do-it-yourself anti-immigrant schemes couldn’t get any more repellent, you were wrong. New laws in Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina are following — and in some ways outdoing — Arizona’s attempt to engineer the mass expulsion of the undocumented, no matter the damage to the Constitution, public safety, local economies and immigrant families. | Read the story

Secure Communities redefines its main targets

07/01/11 | Denver Post | Recently announced tweaks to a key immigration enforcement program should make the effort more true to its intended purpose and reassure critics. Secure Communities has been battered by those who say it deports some illegal immigrants who have no criminal background or only minor offenses on their records. | Read the story

New life for the DREAM Act?

07/01/11 | CNN | Imagine an undocumented high school student who won't let a little thing like not being in the country legally stop him from applying to a top university. Those who set their sights on Harvard will often seek me out for advice because, almost 20 years ago, I wrote a book about being a Latino student there. | Read the story

Immigration is key to U.S. competitiveness

07/01/11 | CNN | How much immigration do we need? Which of the would-be immigrants should get priority? How can employment-based immigration be more responsive to changing economic realities? These questions are important and they do not have simple answers. | Read the story

Should Americans Get Permission from the Federal Government Before Being Allowed to Start a New Job?

06/27/11 | Forbes | Did you know that as early as next year you might not be able to start a new job unless you are first cleared by a federal database? Some background: E-Verify is an electronic employment verification system that employers can use to determine if a new hire (or current employee) is eligible to work in the United States. | Read the story

E-verification for workers is too flawed

06/27/11 | Modesto Bee | Republicans in Congress have launched a major offensive to force several million undocumented immigrants to leave the United States with a bill that would make it mandatory for U.S. employers to electronically verify workers' legal status. It sounds like a reasonable idea, but the way they want to do it would hurt all involved. | Read the story

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