Oct 15
U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton denied motions by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu last week to dismiss a lawsuit filed by plaintiffs against Arizona law SB 1070. Counsel for the plaintiffs, which includes the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund, …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/10/15/another-lawsuit-against-arizona%e2%80%99s-sb1070-moves-forward/
Oct 14
Today, the Immigration Policy Center released its latest report documenting the size and importance of an emerging voting bloc, New Americans (naturalized U.S. citizens and children of immigrants born after 1965 when the current wave of immigration from Latin American and Asia began). In The New American Electorate: The Growing Political Power of Immigrants and …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/10/14/census-data-confirms-immigrant-voting-bloc-still-growing/
Oct 13
A new report from the Center for American Progress (CAP) thoroughly debunks the simplistic claims of nativist groups that immigration to the United States fuels the destruction of the U.S. environment by contributing to “over-population” of the country. The report, entitled From a “Green Farce” to a Green Future: Refuting False Claims About Immigrants and …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/10/13/immigration-and-the-environment-why-the-%e2%80%9cover-population%e2%80%9d-argument-doesn%e2%80%99t-hold-water/
Oct 12
Well it’s finally here—open season on immigrants. You don’t even have to stare into the headlights of campaign politics to observe how blithely some candidates have taken aim at their opponents and managed to catch immigrants in their crosshairs. Two recent campaign ads portray undocumented immigrants as darkly-clothed thieves—like in one of those overly-dramatized alarm …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/10/12/from-bad-to-worse-immigrant-smearing-in-a-time-of-midterm-cholera/
Oct 08
This week, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano was clearly channeling her predecessor, Michael Chertoff, as she touted her Department’s remarkable progress in enforcing immigration laws. Not only did she proudly announce that DHS had a record-breaking year for deportations, but she clarified that local law enforcement cannot opt out of the Secure Communities program once it’s …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/10/08/why-is-the-obama-administration-afraid-of-administrative-fixes-to-our-immigration-system/
Oct 07
This week, the United States Supreme Court opened its October session. Among the cases it will hear is a challenge to a state law that sanctions employers for hiring unauthorized workers. This is the first case challenging the recent influx of state and local laws attempting to regulate immigrants and immigration and an opportunity for …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/10/07/supreme-court-to-hear-two-cases-affecting-immigrants-including-a-case-challenging-a-recent-anti-immigrant-law/
Oct 06
The nativist Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) is apoplectic over the Republican Party’s recently released “Pledge to America.” Apparently, the GOP’s professed commitment to “establish operational control of the border,” “strengthen visa security,” and “work with state and local officials to enforce our immigration laws” isn’t tough enough—or unrealistic enough—to meet FAIR’s high standards. …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/10/06/nativist-group-unhinged-over-gop%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cpledge-to-america%e2%80%9d/
Oct 05
With midterm election campaigning well underway, some local candidates are lifting up state and local immigration enforcement legislation as a means to garner public support. Unfortunately, as is often the case when politics meets reality, not everyone is on board with local enforcement laws like Arizona’s SB1070—key provisions of which were enjoined by a federal …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/10/05/utah-leaders-balk-at-arizona-esque-immigration-enforcement-bill/
Oct 04
There can be advantages to going it alone. Despite two years of repeated attempts to get a bipartisan immigration reform bill in the Senate, Senators Menendez (D-NJ) and Leahy (D-VT) finally said “enough” and introduced the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2010 (CIR 2010) last week. Plenty of people have pointed out that the bill …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/10/04/sen-menendez-aims-for-lame-duck-urges-advocates-to-focus-on-policy-of-cir-2010/
Oct 01
Earlier this week, the Santa Clara (CA) Board of Supervisors and the Arlington County (VA) Board both voted unanimously to opt-out of the Secure Communities program—an ICE program that shares the fingerprints of individuals booked into jails with immigration databases. However, Today’s Washington Post claims that opting out of Secure Communities “is not a realistic …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/10/01/counties-say-no-to-ices-secure-communities-program-but-is-opting-out-possible/
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