Immigration News Coverage

DREAM gives kids of illegal immigrants a chance

11/23/10 | Star Ledger | It’s unfortunate that a calm discussion of immigration reform has been drowned out by calls for arrests, deportations and sealed borders. But there is one last chance for the lame-duck Congress to strike a blow for sanity on this issue. | Read the story

The Power of the Hispanic Voter

11/23/10 | New York Times | Overwhelming support from Hispanic voters appears to have helped elect Democratic senators in Nevada, California, Colorado and possibly Washington State. Hispanic voters may have kept the Senate in Democratic hands. | Read the story

The message the DREAM Act sends

11/21/10 | The Economist | The DREAM Act sends the message that although American immigration law in effect tries to make water run uphill, we are not monsters. It says that we will not hobble the prospects of young people raised and schooled in America just because we were so perverse to demand that their parents wait in a line before a door that never opens. | Read the story

Give immigrant kids a path to college

11/19/10 | CNN | Congress should take up the DREAM Act because it's the right thing to do. It's wrong to visit the sins of the parents onto their children. Many illegal immigrants getting ready to attend college came here as young children. They didn't cross a border. They were yanked across the border by their parents. | Read the story

What Democrats owe Latinos: Passing the Dream Act

11/19/10 | Washington Post | Latinos are fed up with congressional delays over comprehensive immigration reform. The time has come for President Obama and the Democrats to man up in the lame-duck session and at least fight to pass the Dream Act. | Read the story

Activists Wonder: Where’s Obama’s Muscle on Immigration?

11/17/10 | Atlantic Wire | President Obama is urging the passage of the DREAM Act, which would let illegal immigrants who completed two years of college or military service become citizens, during the lame-duck session of Congress, but pro-immigration activists worry that there's not a lot of grit behind the president's rhetoric. | Read the story

Alienating Latinos

11/15/10 | Los Angeles Times | Pushing the divisive 'anchor babies' rhetoric is no road to immigration reform and will only make Latino voters more suspicious of GOP motives than they've already become. | Read the story

It’s time to bring Asians and ethnic blocs into the immigration debate

11/14/10 | Seattle Times | Compared with the 9 percent of eligible voters who are Latino, Karen Narasaki estimated the Asian vote represents about 5 percent of eligible voters. "That '5 percent nationally' gets lost because we're heavily concentrated on the West Coast, New York, and in California, which has the largest Asian population." | Read the story

Immigration Hardball

11/14/10 | New York Times | Republicans will have the next two years to set the immigration agenda in the House of Representatives. If their legislation looks anything like their campaign ads, there will be no way for illegal immigrants to get right with the law and no real solution to the problem of illegal immigration. | Read the story

Napolitano: Border more secure than many think

11/12/10 | San Diego Union-Tribune | "Having worked the border since ’93 when I was the U.S. attorney in Arizona, there is more federal law enforcement than ever before, more technology than ever before, more infrastructure than ever before, more efforts with state and local law enforcement than ever before and a much more robust relationship with the Mexican federal government than we’ve ever seen before." | Read the story

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