WASHINGTON — Hispanic families and immigrant advocates criticized President Barack Obama Thursday for failing to keep campaign promises to change the U.S. immigration system.
The critics questioned Obama's recent comment that he could not use his executive order powers to suspend deportations because doing so "would not conform with my appropriate role as president." Obama made the comment at a town hall organized by Univision TV network.
The statement has received a lot of attention in immigrant and some Latino communities. Hispanics voted heavily for Obama in 2008 and some have felt he has let Latino supporters down by failing to move an immigration bill providing legal status to some illegal immigrants, while deporting record numbers of immigrants, many of them Hispanics.
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[Posted by Ariana Hernandez]
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Bill to end tuition break for illegal immigrants dies in Assembly
Legislation to prohibit illegal immigrants from receiving a break on college tuition fees died this week in an Assembly committee.
Assembly Bill 63 by Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, R-Twin Peaks, was rejected Tuesday by the Higher Education Committee, receiving only two votes of support from the nine-member committee.
The bill targeted a select group of illegal immigrants entitled under a state law passed in 2001 to pay in-state resident tuition rates at California state and community colleges. The University of California complies voluntarily.
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Posted by Jessica Damian
Assembly Bill 63 by Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, R-Twin Peaks, was rejected Tuesday by the Higher Education Committee, receiving only two votes of support from the nine-member committee.
The bill targeted a select group of illegal immigrants entitled under a state law passed in 2001 to pay in-state resident tuition rates at California state and community colleges. The University of California complies voluntarily.
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A Classic Flip Flop on DREAM Act
Move over John Kerry. The Senate has a new master of the flip-flop.
Sen. John Cornyn recently told a roomful of Hispanic conservatives who support immigration reform that he was in favor of the Dream Act — before he voted against it. Then, the Texas Republican did a rhetorical pirouette and declared he would favor the legislation again if it were part of a comprehensive immigration reform plan.
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Posted by Jessica Damian
Sen. John Cornyn recently told a roomful of Hispanic conservatives who support immigration reform that he was in favor of the Dream Act — before he voted against it. Then, the Texas Republican did a rhetorical pirouette and declared he would favor the legislation again if it were part of a comprehensive immigration reform plan.
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Ariz. immigration law pushes workers underground
"Arizona’s 2007 law designed to squeeze illegal immigrants from the workplace has reduced the illegal immigrant population and the number of illegal immigrants in wage and salary jobs. But it has also resulted in many workers simply going underground and receiving money either under the table or as contract workers, according to a new study by the Public Policy Institute of California."
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Ackerman, Mexican consul to discuss immigration
Former state Senator Dick Ackerman, Dr. Tibor Machan of Auburn University and Mexican Consul Alejandra Garcia Williams will get together Thursday for a panel discussion titled “U.S. Immigration Policy in the 21st Century: The Landscape Today and Beyond.”
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Immigration rally in Atlanta draws thousands
Immigration rally in Atlanta draws thousands, organizers say
Republican lawmakers issue response to protest
ATLANTA - About 30 Middle Georgia Hispanics are among thousands from across the state attending a rally at the state Capitol Thursday to protest two immigration bills before the Legislature.
Thursday's rally drew 9,000 people, according to organizers.
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[Posted by prof montejano]
Republican lawmakers issue response to protest
ATLANTA - About 30 Middle Georgia Hispanics are among thousands from across the state attending a rally at the state Capitol Thursday to protest two immigration bills before the Legislature.
Thursday's rally drew 9,000 people, according to organizers.
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[Posted by prof montejano]
Monday, March 28, 2011
Atlanta Massive Migrant Claims
It discusses two bills that would punish illegal
ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) .- Thousands of people demonstrated yesterday outside the Georgia Capitol to protest anti-immigrant projects, similar to Arizona's controversial law SB1070, which drives the Republican majority in the state legislature.
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Posted by: Mariana Verdin
ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) .- Thousands of people demonstrated yesterday outside the Georgia Capitol to protest anti-immigrant projects, similar to Arizona's controversial law SB1070, which drives the Republican majority in the state legislature.
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Posted by: Mariana Verdin
Georgia passes law similar to SB 1070
Georgia Senate approves a bill similar to Arizona's anti-immigrant
ATLANTA, Georgia (EFE) .- The Georgia Senate today approved SB40, a measure similar to SB 1070 Arizona law that criminalizes illegal immigration.
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Posted by: Mariana Verdin
ATLANTA, Georgia (EFE) .- The Georgia Senate today approved SB40, a measure similar to SB 1070 Arizona law that criminalizes illegal immigration.
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Posted by: Mariana Verdin
Friday, March 25, 2011
Activist Dolores Huerta: Why Immigrants Come to the US
Huerta expresses her opinion on the Immigration Reform and the Dream Act.
You're a big supporter of Zack de la Rocha's SoundStrike campaign. What's he doing right?
He's raising money for legal organizations that are fighting the Arizona law like MALDEF and ACLU, but he's also helping out the junior community organizations.
He's covering the field and he's very passionate about what he's doing. He really believes in it. He's not just lending music; he's also organizing. Music is great because it's not only a way of communicating what's going on, but it's also a way of engaging, particularly the young people, to stop that stupid law.
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[posted by: Blanca Chavez - Herrera]
You're a big supporter of Zack de la Rocha's SoundStrike campaign. What's he doing right?
He's raising money for legal organizations that are fighting the Arizona law like MALDEF and ACLU, but he's also helping out the junior community organizations.
He's covering the field and he's very passionate about what he's doing. He really believes in it. He's not just lending music; he's also organizing. Music is great because it's not only a way of communicating what's going on, but it's also a way of engaging, particularly the young people, to stop that stupid law.
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[posted by: Blanca Chavez - Herrera]
Hot line will tell of immigration raids
"Responding to a refusal by city leaders to declare the city a sanctuary for illegal immigrants, more than a dozen people gathered outside City Hall on Monday night to denounce recent immigration raids, accusing federal officials of "terrorizing" immigrant communities and breaking up families."
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Posted by Isabel Pintor
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Rep Loretta Sanchez: It is a fallacy that the federal government has not acted on illegal immigration
Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez said that it is a fallacy that the federal government has not acted on illegal immigration, specifically securing the border, while speaking at a luncheon in Orange County this week. She said a lot has been done. She talked about border security which she said included the coasts and airports and she also mentioned the problem with illegal immigration by the Irish.
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Thursday, March 17, 2011
Undocumented worker who became quadriplegic is moved to Mexico against his will
For almost four months, doctors and nurses at Advocate Christ Medical Center cared for the young Mexican laborer who had fallen from a roof and lost the ability to speak, breathe or move most parts of his body.
But Quelino Ojeda Jimenez was in the U.S. illegally, and just before Christmas he was taken from the Oak Lawn hospital, loaded on an air ambulance and flown to Oaxaca, capital of the Mexican state where he was born.
His abrupt departure, which Ojeda says was undertaken without his consent, outraged a group of Mexicans living in Chicago who had rallied to his aid, tending to him in the hospital and encouraging him not to give up.
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-Posted by Marcy Pineda
But Quelino Ojeda Jimenez was in the U.S. illegally, and just before Christmas he was taken from the Oak Lawn hospital, loaded on an air ambulance and flown to Oaxaca, capital of the Mexican state where he was born.
His abrupt departure, which Ojeda says was undertaken without his consent, outraged a group of Mexicans living in Chicago who had rallied to his aid, tending to him in the hospital and encouraging him not to give up.
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-Posted by Marcy Pineda
Monday, March 14, 2011
Government Wrongly Tries to Deport US Army Veteran
See, this is why the immigration issue is important to all Latinos. Not that Latinos should become a single-issue political block or cultural force, but the nature of it is such that what affects some affects us all.
Case in point: Rennison Castillo. According to Fox News Latino he’s a US Army vet, I’ll say it again, a US Army vet, who spent seven months locked up in an immigration detention center because officials didn’t believe he was a US citizen.
How in the friggin’ world does that happen!!!
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[posted by Sylvia Lopez]
Case in point: Rennison Castillo. According to Fox News Latino he’s a US Army vet, I’ll say it again, a US Army vet, who spent seven months locked up in an immigration detention center because officials didn’t believe he was a US citizen.
How in the friggin’ world does that happen!!!
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[posted by Sylvia Lopez]
Okla. House panel passes illegal immigrant bill
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma House committee has approved anti-illegal immigrant legislation that would give Oklahoma law enforcement officials new authority to assess the immigration status of motorists.
The House Judiciary Committee approved the bill Monday and sent it to the full House for action.
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[posted by Sylvia Lopez]
The House Judiciary Committee approved the bill Monday and sent it to the full House for action.
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[posted by Sylvia Lopez]
New AZ Bill Requires Hospitals to Check Citizenship
The Arizona Republic reports:
The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a public hearing today on a bill that would require hospitals to check patients’ immigration status.
It’s called sb1405, and here are a few highlights:
1. It would require hospitals to confirm an individual is a legal resident before admitting him or her for non-emergency care.
2. The hospital would have to notify federal immigration officers if the individual was not in the country legally.
3. It would allow hospitals to provide emergency care to illegal immigrants, but it would require them to report the individuals once the care was completed.
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[posted by Sylvia Lopez]
The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a public hearing today on a bill that would require hospitals to check patients’ immigration status.
It’s called sb1405, and here are a few highlights:
1. It would require hospitals to confirm an individual is a legal resident before admitting him or her for non-emergency care.
2. The hospital would have to notify federal immigration officers if the individual was not in the country legally.
3. It would allow hospitals to provide emergency care to illegal immigrants, but it would require them to report the individuals once the care was completed.
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[posted by Sylvia Lopez]
Colorado Lawmaker Kills His Own AZ-type Immigration Bill
Here’s a new twist in the plot where immigration meets reform and the courts.
In Colorado an Arizona-type immigration bill was scuttled because the bill’s sponsor figured it would cost too much to defend it in court.
According to the Denver Post Rep. Randy Baumgardner withdrew the bill he introduced that
would have required all local police to attempt to determine whether a person being questioned was in the country illegally. The bill also would have criminalized acts such as stopping to hire an illegal street worker or knowingly concealing an illegal alien.
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[posted by Sylvia Lopez]
In Colorado an Arizona-type immigration bill was scuttled because the bill’s sponsor figured it would cost too much to defend it in court.
According to the Denver Post Rep. Randy Baumgardner withdrew the bill he introduced that
would have required all local police to attempt to determine whether a person being questioned was in the country illegally. The bill also would have criminalized acts such as stopping to hire an illegal street worker or knowingly concealing an illegal alien.
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[posted by Sylvia Lopez]
The Truth About the Immigration Side-Show
We at News http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifTaco have been wondering how all of these state level immigration laws were going to happen. What with budget shortfalls, unemployment, redistricting and such, what is the enforcement of these laws going to look like?
My inclination has been to think that it’s a matter of side-show politics taking center stage. State legislators have been lining up to propose and debate Arizona-type immigration bills (in 19 states at last count) because they made campaign promises and because it’s the kind of issue that politicians like. Newt Gingrich famously said that conservative politicians should find issues with 80 percent approval, stand next to them and wave. And Lamar Smith, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, recently called immigration a 70 percent issue. They’re playing the odds.
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[posted by Sylvia Lopez]
My inclination has been to think that it’s a matter of side-show politics taking center stage. State legislators have been lining up to propose and debate Arizona-type immigration bills (in 19 states at last count) because they made campaign promises and because it’s the kind of issue that politicians like. Newt Gingrich famously said that conservative politicians should find issues with 80 percent approval, stand next to them and wave. And Lamar Smith, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, recently called immigration a 70 percent issue. They’re playing the odds.
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[posted by Sylvia Lopez]
Few Immigrants Cross Border to Give Birth
The vast majority of illegal immigrants who had children in the United States in 2010 had entered the country several years earlier, according to a new report.
The report in question was done by the Pew Hispanic Center and here’s why it matters. Those immigrants who have babies in this country do so, by and large, several years after coming here, and that throws the “anchor baby” logic out the porthole.
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[posted by Sylvia Lopez]
The report in question was done by the Pew Hispanic Center and here’s why it matters. Those immigrants who have babies in this country do so, by and large, several years after coming here, and that throws the “anchor baby” logic out the porthole.
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[posted by Sylvia Lopez]
Racial Profiling Feared in New Mexico
One of the first things that Susana Martinez, the newly elected and installed Republican Governor of New Mexico, did was undo what her predecessor had done. Five years ago then governor Bill Richardson, a Democrat, issued a resolution that barred state law enforcement officials from asking people about their immigration status. Gov. Martinez has signed an order of her own obligating state police to do the opposite. Its a red flag on the place where rights and discrimination intersect with immigration for Latinos.
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[posted by Sylvia Lopez]
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[posted by Sylvia Lopez]
How Latinos Are Redefining America
A correction I find myself making often, especially to those who don’t agree with my particular point of view, is that the term Latino does not refer to a race. Some people like to say that Latino is an ethnicity, but I’ve settled on calling it a culture – it just makes more sense to me that way.
Most Latinos understand the vagueness of it all. We’re brown, black, native, white, Asian, as well as wonderful mixtures of everything in between. We know that what binds us is culture with many varying traditions. It’s really not a problem for us. Researchers, though, are having fits at putting us in their empirical boxes. They need to define us before they can track us and project us into the future. Good luck to them.
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[posted by Sylvia Lopez]
Most Latinos understand the vagueness of it all. We’re brown, black, native, white, Asian, as well as wonderful mixtures of everything in between. We know that what binds us is culture with many varying traditions. It’s really not a problem for us. Researchers, though, are having fits at putting us in their empirical boxes. They need to define us before they can track us and project us into the future. Good luck to them.
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[posted by Sylvia Lopez]
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Guarantee Law Similar to SB 1070
The Initiative must be signed by Republican Gov. Gary Herbert
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Notimex) .- The Utah Legislature approved a bill to strengthen immigration and other temporary workers, following an agreement between the House of Representatives and U.S. Senate from that state.
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Posted by: Mariana Verdin
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Notimex) .- The Utah Legislature approved a bill to strengthen immigration and other temporary workers, following an agreement between the House of Representatives and U.S. Senate from that state.
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Posted by: Mariana Verdin
U.S. Police Chiefs Reluctant to Migration Tasks
Police from various places in the U.S. are concerned that the legislature will order them to undertake tasks of immigration.
New York, 4 Mar (Notimex) .- A Special Report reported that the police chiefs of U.S. cities are concerned that the legislature will order them to undertake tasks of immigration, since this would affect relations with the community, reported The New York Times.
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Posted by: Mariana Verdin
New York, 4 Mar (Notimex) .- A Special Report reported that the police chiefs of U.S. cities are concerned that the legislature will order them to undertake tasks of immigration, since this would affect relations with the community, reported The New York Times.
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Posted by: Mariana Verdin
Immigration and pro bono
The passage earlier this year of the controversial Arizona state law that criminalizes not carrying immigration documents and broadens local police authority to enforce immigration laws has established immigration as one of the most divisive and prominent issues in our nation. Although U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton recently enjoined some aspects of the law, the heated debate around immigration continues to raise ire in Arizona and beyond. Regardless of one's political views, the issue — and Arizona's law in particular — further highlight some serious flaws that have long been present in the current immigration system. And these flaws are underscored by the significant need for legal assistance in this area. Fortunately, we are seeing law firms undertaking immigration pro bono work in record numbers.
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[posted by: Blanca Chavez Herrera]
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[posted by: Blanca Chavez Herrera]
Saturday, March 5, 2011
The Arizonification of America
Roll Call executive editor Morton Kondracke wrote the same month that we are seeing "the Arizonification of America," a reference to the state that last year passed the harshest anti-immigrant law in memory. "It has become a state of Minuteman vigilantism, death threats against politicians and judges, talk-radio demagoguery, and bullying of Latinos and rival politicians," he said.
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[Posted by Ariana Hernandez]
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[Posted by Ariana Hernandez]
Investors for Immigration Reform
The last twelve months have been dispiriting for advocates of comprehensive immigration reform (CIR). First CIR didn't make it onto the 2010 legislative agenda. Then Arizona passed SB 1070, and other states expressed interest in following suit. Then the DREAM Act failed to pass the Senate and the new House of Representatives leadership changed direction in terms of that body's approach to immigration reform. And, through it all, the national conversation kept getting nastier, going as far as proposals to repeal the 14th Amendment's birthright citizenship provision.
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[Posted by Ariana Hernandez]
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[Posted by Ariana Hernandez]
The Three Amigos on Immigration: Reps. Smith (TX), Gallegly (CA), and King (IA)
The leaders of House Mass Deportation Caucus, Reps. Smith, Gallegly, and King, are not only driving the GOP immigration strategy, they are driving their party off of a political cliff.
Those “Three Amigos” are proving to be the GOP’s lead strategists not only on immigration reform – but Latino politics. Saner heads have tried to prevail on the Republican side, but to no avail. The efforts of Jeb Bush, Tom Ridge, and even Newt Gingrich to get the Republican Party to move away from anti-immigrant policies and rhetoric alienating Hispanic voters has hit a brick wall -- built by Smith, Gallegly and King.
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[Posted by Ariana Hernandez]
Those “Three Amigos” are proving to be the GOP’s lead strategists not only on immigration reform – but Latino politics. Saner heads have tried to prevail on the Republican side, but to no avail. The efforts of Jeb Bush, Tom Ridge, and even Newt Gingrich to get the Republican Party to move away from anti-immigrant policies and rhetoric alienating Hispanic voters has hit a brick wall -- built by Smith, Gallegly and King.
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[Posted by Ariana Hernandez]
Friday, March 4, 2011
Group seeks to limit legal immigration
Here's a doozy of a debate.
A group called Californians for Population Stabilization has launched a TV ad campaign arguing the government needs to stem the tide of temporary workers and immigrants -- not illegal immigrants, all immigrants -- until California's unemployment improves.
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[Posted by Perla Parra]