Nov 12
Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), nearing the end of his reelection campaign last month, told Univision’s Jorge Ramos that, win or lose, he would bring up the DREAM Act during lame duck session. This week, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi threw her support behind Sen. Reid, also advocating for a DREAM vote during …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/11/12/pelosi-reid-to-push-dream-act-in-lame-duck/
Nov 11
Whenever restrictionist groups calculate the cost of an immigrant, they inevitably overlook the contributions of immigrant veterans who fight and die on behalf of Americans every single day. Immigrants have voluntarily served in all branches of the U.S. military from the beginnings of our great nation. In fact, without the contributions of immigrants, the military …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/11/11/remembering-our-immigrant-veterans-an-incalculable-contribution/
Nov 10
Yet another locality learned the financial perils of passing an anti-immigrant law. Last Friday, a panel from the Third Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a district court decision to require the City of Hazelton, PA, to pay $2.4 million in legal fees to the Plaintiffs instead of their insurance carrier. The Plaintiffs (Pedro Lozano, Casa …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/11/10/enforcing-your-way-into-the-red-hazleton-could-learn-an-expensive-immigration-lesson/
Nov 09
The Center for Immigration Studies recently released a report entitled Subsidizing Sanctuaries: The State Criminal Alien Assistance Program, which claims the federal government is giving State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP) grant money to “sanctuary” cities. The problem with this argument is that the very fact these cities (San Francisco, Chicago, Arlington, VA) are receiving …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/11/09/sanctuary-cities-and-the-state-criminal-alien-assistance-program-two-things-that-do-not-go-together/
Nov 08
A cog in the wheel of local enforcement legislation, Arizona state Senator and now Senate President-elect, Russell Pearce, predictably said he will continue his immigration crusade to repeal part of the 14th Amendment despite the looming state budget crisis. A recent article points out that Pearce, in the throes of last minute campaigning, pledged that …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/11/08/arizona-state-senator-russell-pearce-continues-immigration-crusade-despite-budget-crisis/
Nov 05
The predictions are already rolling in that the 112th Congress will get little done, each party miring themselves in partisan differences with the goal of a White House win in 2012. The thought of gridlock on so many pressing issues facing the country—fiscal policy, stimulating the economy, ensuring job growth—is sobering. And two more years …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/11/05/how-will-republican-leadership-play-their-cards-on-immigration/
Nov 04
An interesting post-election thread is the issue of why so many polls underestimated voter turnout, specifically in races where the Democratic candidate won. The starkest example comes from the state of Nevada where the Democratic candidate for Senate, Harry Reid, beat his Republican challenger, Sharron Angle, by 5 points. Polls published by the Las Vegas …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/11/04/pollsters-still-underestimating-the-latino-vote/
Nov 03
Last night, GOP candidates won a number of key Senate, House and gubernatorial races as well as a majority in the House of Representatives. The night, however, wasn’t a total wash for the Democratic Party who managed to hold onto a majority in the Senate. Headlining the Senate races, Nevada Senator Harry Reid held onto …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/11/03/is-the-latino-vote-up-for-grabs-midterm-polling-and-the-future-of-the-latino-vote/
Nov 02
It’s not every day that federal officials cite Section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) as a limit on—rather than an expansion of—the authority of local police to assist in immigration enforcement. But a veteran Justice Department attorney made just that point during arguments in a federal appeals court yesterday while defending an …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/11/02/will-the-fate-of-arizona%e2%80%99s-sb-1070-hinge-on-the-law-that-created-the-287g-program/
Nov 01
As people head to the polls tomorrow, they will consider a wide range of important issues—the economy, health care, unemployment, deficit spending, tax cuts and immigration to name a few. Not all voters are single issue voters, nor will people vote strictly down party or demographic lines. But whomever people vote for, it is critically …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/11/01/setting-the-stage-for-immigration-reform-who-do-you-want-at-the-curtain-call/
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