News Clips Archive
Romney’s Rivals Seem Content to Concede Arizona
02/10/12 | National Journal | As the Republican presidential race continues its unexpected twists and turns, Arizona has suddenly emerged as a critical state in the fight for the GOP nomination. The Grand Canyon State, along with Michigan, will host presidential primary elections on Feb. 28, and represent an opportunity for the Republican contenders to pick up delegates. | Read the story
At CPAC, Hard Lines On Race And Immigration Could Be Awkward
02/10/12 | NPR | A note to the Republican presidential candidates heading to Washington for the Conservative Political Action Conference: Some of the events could make you uncomfortable if you're planning to tack to the center in your general election campaign. | Read the story
Life Under Alabama’s Harsh Immigration Law
02/10/12 | Daily Beast | The front door is locked on this brown-and-cream mobile home, an aluminum outpost at the end of a pine-tree trailer park beyond Birmingham, Ala. But the back door flaps open in a winter wind. Inside are a bag of red beans, some pet food, and a pair of high heels. | Read the story
Dangerous path to legal status for some immigrants
02/10/12 | CNN | Tania Nava has one piece of advice for anyone seeking to come out of the shadows and pursue a path to U.S. citizenship: don't do it. She says her decision to become a legal citizen is one of the reasons her husband was murdered. | Read the story
Immigration Debate So Funny We Forgot to Laugh
02/10/12 | The Atlantic | When a Democratic state legislator introduced a satirical bill proposing that Mississippi rename the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America," he fooled a whole lot of people into thinking he was serious, providing a funny (but actually sad) commentary on the state of the immigration debate. | Read the story
Backlash against Kris Kobach on immigration is growing
02/09/12 | Kansas City Star | Kris Kobach’s ears should be burning. Backlash built this week against the Kansas secretary of state for gallivanting state-to-state, drumming up support for laws bent on driving illegal immigrants out. The rebukes aren’t coming from his usual critics, those who display sanity about the federal reforms needed to effectively deal with illegal immigration. | Read the story
In school sex scandal, parents fear deportation if they talk
02/09/12 | MSNBC | Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies on Wednesday rushed to dispel rumors among Latino families that they would be deported if they come forward with information about child sexual abuse allegations at Miramonte Elementary School, where two teachers have been arrested. | Read the story
On Mitt Romney’s Immigration Rhetoric, Obama-Supporting LA Mayor Previews Line Of Attack
02/09/12 | Huffington Post | Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, a Democrat, plans to dig into Mitt Romney in a speech on immigration reform Wednesday, when he will call the candidate's rhetoric and anti-immigrant endorsers "beyond the pale." | Read the story
For battered immigrant women, fear of deportation becomes abuser weapon, but laws can overcome that
02/09/12 | Washington Post | Teresa Gomez, a Salvadoran woman in her 20s, and Margaret Ashong, a grandmother from Ghana, endured regular beatings, threats and insults by the fathers of their children. Like many battered immigrant women in the Washington area, they mostly suffered in silence, fearful that if they went to the police they could lose their right to remain in the United States and their source of economic support. | Read the story
Immigrant military bill ‘a cruel joke’
02/09/12 | San Antonio Express News | During one of the Republican debates in Florida, Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney agreed that the only way they'd support the DREAM Act is to take out the educational component. | Read the story
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