Jul 16
Utah officials and community leaders reacted swiftly and with revulsion to the announcement this week that confidential state records had been breached to compile a list of more than 1,300 supposedly undocumented people living in Utah, including pregnant women and children. At a press conference this afternoon, State Attorney General Mark L. Shurtleff condemned the …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/07/16/utah-attorney-general-condemns-immigration-knock-list/
Jul 16
Almost immediately after Arizona governor Jan Brewer signed S.B. 1070 into law, lawsuits were filed in federal court in Arizona challenging the law. The lawsuits all seek the same result—a halt to the law’s enforcement—although each suit argues different grounds. Some suits cite civil liberty violations, racial profiling and unlawful regulation of federal immigration law, …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/07/16/a-closer-look-at-the-seven-lawsuits-challenging-arizona-law-sb-1070/
Jul 15
It’s the stuff of fiction. A vigilante group with a vaguely patriotic name creates a list with the help of someone—perhaps a disgruntled government-employee/mole—who is fed up with the system (think Michael Douglas in Falling Down). The list contains the names, social security numbers and other private information of hundreds of people whom the vigilantes …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/07/15/the-list-a-modern-day-witch-hunt-in-utah/
Jul 14
At a House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration hearing today, a panel of conservative religious leaders made the case for common sense solutions to our immigration problems—comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) that secures our borders, follows the rule of law and provides a pathway to citizenship for the roughly 11 million undocumented immigrants currently living in the …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/07/14/the-right-side-of-history-religious-leaders-urge-immigration-reform-at-hearing/
Jul 13
Every year, undocumented immigrants come to the U.S. along with their young children. These kids grow up in the U.S., speak English, and hang out with their friends just like other American kids. But unlike their classmates, they cannot join the military, work, or pursue their dreams because they don’t have legal status. Every year, …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/07/13/undocumented-youth-pin-dreams-on-congressional-action/
Jul 12
Republican and Democratic governors alike might need a tutorial on the concept of checks and balances, given the dismay they are expressing over the federal government’s lawsuit against Arizona’s SB 1070. Democrats are purportedly worried that it will hurt their chances in tough state elections, while Republicans are calling the lawsuit hypocritical because the federal …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/07/12/it%e2%80%99s-the-constitution-governors-why-playing-politics-with-the-doj%e2%80%99s-lawsuit-is-a-bad-idea/
Jul 09
In the media storm following the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) lawsuit against Arizona’s immigration enforcement law (SB1070) this week, politicians, reporters and advocates are busy gauging voters’ reaction in the build up to midterm elections. A number of public opinion polls have recently surfaced, each with something slightly different to say about how most Americans …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/07/09/the-numbers-are-in-polls-reveal-voters%e2%80%99-desire-to-fix-immigration/
Jul 09
Yesterday, United Farm Workers of America (UFW) President, Arturo Rodriquez, joined Stephen Colbert on the Colbert Report to talk about the Take Our Jobs campaign. The campaign aims at hiring U.S. citizens and legal residents to fill jobs that often go to undocumented farm workers—a response to the anti-immigrant rhetoric that “undocumented immigrants steal American …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/07/09/the-united-farm-workers-and-colbert-report-team-up-on-take-our-jobs-campaign/
Jul 08
This week, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) came out with more fuel for the anti-immigrant movement’s fire. Their most recent publication discusses the costs of unauthorized immigration to the United States. As usual, FAIR has put out a highly misleading fiscal snapshot of the costs allegedly imposed on U.S. taxpayers by unauthorized immigrants …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/07/08/fairs-loosening-grip-on-economic-reality/
Jul 07
Yesterday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit against the state of Arizona, challenging the state’s immigration enforcement law (SB 1070). The DOJ lawsuit—which seeks to stop the law from going into effect on July 29th—argues that Arizona’s law is unconstitutional since it claims state authority over federal immigration policy. While political opposition in …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/07/07/arizona-senators-decry-doj-lawsuit-yet-refuse-to-support-immigration-reform/
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