Immigration News Coverage

Chicago mom smuggled girl, officials say

10/24/08 | Chicago Tribune | Police near Phoenix, Ariz., pulled over a minivan last weekend and found 11 people crammed inside, including a 2-year-old girl whose mother worked as a maid in Chicago and is accused of paying to have her smuggled from Mexico. The girl later was traced to her mother, Maria Martinez-Avila, 23, who was charged in Arizona with felony child endangerment, smuggling and other offenses. The connections began to crystallize on Saturday, when Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio held up a picture of the unidentified girl at a news conference. | Read the story

EVEN IN DEEP-RED STATES, GOP FEELS THE HEAT Democrats see chance to pick up many seats in Senate, Ho

10/24/08 | The Boston Globe | Chambliss's problems, political observers say, are not only about the national anti-Republican tide. He also alienated his conservative base by initially supporting the immigration reform package pushed by Republican presidential nominee John McCain and Democrat Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, said Merle Black, a political scientist at Emory University. | Read the story

Missouri Governor Jay Nixon, Democrat

10/24/08 | The Kansas City Star | What steps, if any, should state government take to deal with illegal immigration? Please explain why you believe those steps are necessary and the public policy goal they are designed to achieve. I support an illegal immigration enforcement policy in America, and here in Missouri, that is tough, fair and practical. While I strongly believe that the diversity of our state makes us stronger, we must hold accountable those who help people break the law. That means cracking down on businesses that knowingly hire illegal immigrants. | Read the story

Hagan talks jobs in campaign stop: Democrat swings through county in bid to unseat Dole

10/24/08 | Times-News | New jobs for North Carolina, reinvestment in agriculture and better federal spending were part of the message U.S. Senate candidate Kay Hagan shared during a visit to a cattle farm in northern Alamance County on Thursday afternoon. As far as the 287(g) program, the federal-local immigration enforcement initiative that Dole has backed as a tool to curb illegal immigration, Hagan said it is "a patchwork solution for a federal problem." | Read the story

Unlike Dole, Hagan won’t forget N.C.

10/24/08 | Editorial; News & Record | A year ago it would have been unthinkable that U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole would be fighting for her political life. But Dole is facing a skin-tight race against Kay Hagan, her Democratic challenger from Greensboro. She supported the war in Iraq, voted against raising the minimum wage and supports preserving tax incentives for offshore companies. She did, however, break with Bush's admirable immigration plan that would give illegal immigrants 'a path to citizenship.' | Read the story

Barnes is the best choice for Missouri’s 6th U.S. House District

10/24/08 | The Kansas City Star | Kay Barnes knows how to encourage economic growth, create jobs and bring diverse groups of people together to pursue common goals. These abilities made her a successful two-term mayor of Kansas City, and they make her an excellent choice to represent northwest Missouri in Congress…Barnes has a clear sense of direction on how to strengthen the economy, improve financial regulation, reduce dependence on foreign oil, tighten border security, fight illegal immigration and protect U.S. interests abroad. | Read the story

ROSA BROOKS; The ‘real’ America, really

10/23/08 | Los Angeles Times | Will the ‘real’ America please stand up? According to Sarah Palin, she and John McCain ‘believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hardworking, very patriotic, um, very, um, pro-America areas of this great nation’…Robin Hayes (R-N.C.) joined the chorus, telling the crowd at a McCain rally, ‘Liberals hate real Americans that work, and accomplish, and achieve, and believe in God.’…But that's how it's always been. | Read the story

Rosa Brooks: The ‘real’ America, really

10/23/08 | Los Angeles Times | Will the ‘real’ America please stand up? Our culture was built by immigrants and shaped by wars, social upheavals, economic crises and further rounds of immigration, each time from places that seemed deeply ‘foreign’ to those who had already settled in. Each round of change was painful to those used to the temporary status quo -- but each round of change also gave us a richer, stronger nation. That's the real America: a land of change and perpetual renewal. Let's stand up for it. | Read the story

Are Joe Arpaio and His MCSO’s Fiscally Wasteful and Inhumane Antics Finally Catching Up With Him?

10/23/08 | Phoenix New Times | In any other place, the publicity Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has received recently would be seen as, well, horrendous. While Arpaio pounds away on immigration, he may be getting in trouble with voters for not enforcing other areas of the law. Trouble is, news outlets haven't fully explored the possibility that he's letting more serious crimes go as he targets illegal aliens, de Berge says. A five-day series in July in the Tribune, which dinged Arpaio's office for late responses to emergency calls, came close, but the paper doesn't have widespread influence, de Berge says. | Read the story

GOP faces hard road to Capitol Hill

10/23/08 | Philadelphia Inquirer | One of the few places where the GOP has a good chance to pick up a House seat is Pennsylvania's 11th District, which includes Scranton and Wilkes-Barre. There, longtime Democratic Rep. Paul E. Kanjorski is facing a stiff challenge from Hazleton Mayor Lou Barletta, who gained national attention for his attempts to crack down on illegal immigration. | Read the story

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