Mar 24
Photo by nathangibbs. As the national spotlight turns toward U.S. border activity, local border town police face a difficult challenge in balancing their role as both police officers and immigration officers within a broken immigration system. In a recent Washington Post editorial, Phoenix Police Chief Jack Harris asserts that focusing his attention on real criminals …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2009/03/24/border-violence-immigration-reform-mexico/
Mar 23
Photo by Tracy O. This week the President sent a clear signal that immigration reform is still in the queue for his first year in office. Meeting with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, he did not waver in his commitment to fixing our broken immigration system. In the context of a weakened economy, immigration reform would …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2009/03/23/immigration-reform-us-economy-recession/
Mar 20
A Surprise Visit from Breakthrough on Vimeo. Breakthrough TV is featuring a new short video about Sarah (name changed), a legal permanent resident who came to the U.S. when she was 7. With two young citizen children in her care, she was shocked to hear she would be exiled “for life”, leaving her family behind …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2009/03/20/breakthrough-tv-deportation/
Mar 19
Photo from flickr. BY: AMBER SPARKS, UFCW A new report by the Center for Immigration Studies is a perfect illustration of the misinterpretation and manipulation of data to reach a totally biased and flawed conclusion-and clearly demonstrates a complete lack of understanding about the history of the meatpacking industry. Immigrants worldwide have been essential in …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2009/03/19/cis-swift-raid-report-jerry-kammer/
Mar 19
Photo by heartcorephotos. Yesterday, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus met with President Obama to discuss the prospects for advancing such a reform this year. Obama had made a commitment to reforming the broken immigration system during his campaign, and has sent many signals that he remains enthusiastic about its prospects. At yesterday’s meeting, the President echoed …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2009/03/19/hispanic-caucus-gets-optimistic-forecast-from-president-obama/
Mar 18
Swift Raids from UFCW on Vimeo. UFCW’s video on the Swift raid’s damage. The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) today released a report which, quite inadvertently, makes an excellent case for comprehensive immigration reform that legalizes undocumented immigrants already living and working in the United States. The report analyzes the high-profile federal immigration raids that …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2009/03/18/cis-swift-immigration-raids-undocumented-labor/
Mar 17
Photo by ksbuehler. Like many in the Bush administration who recently recognized that comprehensive immigration reform is not a roadblock but a vehicle to America’s economic recovery, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice highlighted the need for comprehensive reform last week as an economic and social imperative at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2009/03/17/condoleezza-rice-wants-undocumented-immigrants-out-of-the-shadows/
Mar 16
Photo by descamarado. While funneling more than $1.4 billion into barricading the U.S.-Mexico border with electric fences, vehicle barriers, and 6,000 National Guard troops under the purview of the Bush administration, the U.S. Border Patrol also began a more artistic approach to intercepting the flow of job-seeking nannies and busboys from Mexico in to the …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2009/03/16/border-patrol-safety-initiative-corridos/
Mar 13
Last fall, IPC produced a report about The New American Electorate: The Growing Political Power of Immigrants and Their Children discussing how immigrants and their native-born children, born after 1965, were closely connected to the issue of immigration and that it would prove to be an important factor in their voting decisions. Fast forward to …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2009/03/13/american-idol-immigration-immigrant/
Mar 12
Due to its growing immigrant population and local responses to demographic changes, Northern Virginia has become a hot spot in the national immigration debate. A growing participation in the Secure Communities Program suggests that Virginia isn’t going to cool down until immigration enforcement is back in the federal government’s hands. While Prince William County is …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2009/03/12/secure-communities-287g-prince-william-fairfax-county/
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