Immigration News Coverage

Opinion: Mountain View journalist’s story shows why we need the Dream Act

06/24/11 | San Jose Mercury News | In this week's New York Times Magazine, Jose Antonio Vargas -- a 2000 graduate of Mountain View High School and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist -- describes his life growing up as an undocumented immigrant. He tells of his journey to this country from the Philippines at age 12 to live with his grandparents and begin sixth grade in America. | Read the story

OPINION: Immigration debate should focus on jobs, not fences

06/24/11 | The Hill | Today, more than three years after our country entered its deepest recession in decades, the single most powerful (and cost-free) step that the federal government could take to spur job growth – fixing our broken immigration system – is a casualty of partisan gridlock. | Read the story

Immigration: Changes to Secure Communities are for the better

06/23/11 | Los Angeles Times | Last week the Obama administration announced a series of much-needed changes to the controversial Secure Communities program, under which state and local police are required to turn over the fingerprints of everyone they arrest to federal officials, who check for past criminal records and prior deportation orders. | Read the story

E-Verify Is E-normous Problem for Agriculture

06/21/11 | Voice of Agriculture | American farmers and ranchers are confident they produce the best, most affordable food in the world, but they also realize foreign workers are an integral part of production. AFBF Labor Specialist Paul Schlegel talks to AFBF’s Johnna Miller about a new law that would have an enormous impact on that labor force. | Read the story

Too Little, Too Late

06/20/11 | New York Times | With many local governments and states insisting they want out, the Obama administration says it is working to improve Secure Communities, its troubled data-sharing program that pushes local police to the front lines of immigration enforcement. | Read the story

Help for young immigrants

06/20/11 | Los Angeles Times | By some estimates, nearly a million young people in this country are living in a kind of immigration limbo. The United States is the only home many of them have known, but because they were brought here illegally as children by their parents, they live in fear of deportation. | Read the story

Plan to expel illegal immigrants will backfire

06/20/11 | Miami Herald | 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

Blowback: Don’t trust E-Verify on immigration enforcement

06/14/11 | Los Angeles Times | Reps. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) and Elton Gallegly (R-Simi Valley) advocate the mandatory use of E-Verify to preserve jobs for Americans and crack down on illegal immigration. As a supporter of comprehensive reform, I read their Op-Ed article with great interest and was disheartened by their faulty reasoning. | Read the story

It’s Not Time to Expand E-Verify, It’s Time to Face Reality

06/13/11 | Fox News Latino | Commercials are the product of imagination, fanciful thoughts, or, in some cases, outright absurdities. We all know that geckos can’t talk, ducks can’t alert us of danger at every turn, and that toddlers aren’t fully conversant in the complexities of trading stock. | Read the story

Immigration schizophrenia

06/13/11 | La Opinion | The state of Alabama enacted the country’s toughest anti-immigrant law this week. Even in the 21st century, this southern state apparently remains faithful to its controversial history of discrimination, in which someone’s appearance and the color of their skin are enough reason for them to become suspects in the eyes of the authorities. | Read the story

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