Immigration advocates were surprised this week when the Sen. Marco Rubio introduced a bill that was not his promised DREAM Act-like proposal, but rather a bill that attacks “blameless” low-income American children.... Read more»
A 21-year-old Mexican man was sentenced Wednesday to 13 years in prison for holding illegal immigrants hostage inside a Tucson home.... Read more»
A public health insurance program that primarily serves illegal immigrants in the District of Columbia avoided the chopping block Tuesday under a budget compromise approved by the D.C. Council.... Read more»
A 26-year-old man from Chiapas, Mexico, was sentenced Monday in a Tucson federal court to five years in prison for human smuggling.... Read more»
The police are supposed to protect and serve our communities, not divide them. At its core, this is an abuse of power case involving a sheriff and sheriff’s office that disregarded the Constitution.... Read more»
The U.S. Justice Department filed a complaint Thursday against Sheriff Joe Arpaio, alleging racial profiling, discrimination in the Maricopa County Jail, and illegal retaliation against critics of the sheriff. “Arpaio ... intentionally and systematically discriminated against Latinos,” the department said.... Read more»
Citing an unprecedented level of unaccompanied illegal-immigrant minors breaching the U.S.-Mexico border, Gov. Rick Perry sent a letter Friday asking the Obama administration to address the “humanitarian crisis.”... Read more»
Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents rescued a Guatemalan man found face-down and unconscious in the desert north of Sasabe on Saturday.... Read more»1
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio’s plan to introduce a bill to provide legal status—but not citizenship—for undocumented youth ran into an obstacle when Speaker Boehner announced that such a proposal would not pass his chamber.... Read more»3
A controversial immigration-enforcement policy is at the forefront of the sheriff’s race in Travis County, Texas.... Read more»1
Police in Edinburg, Texas, received a phone call Wednesday morning from an immigrant trapped inside a so-called “stash house.” The caller said more than 100 people were locked inside and they had gone days without food or water.... Read more»
Listening to Ron Barber and Richard Carmona, you’d think they were the most conservative Democrats on the planet. Why is that important? Obama’s low approval ratings don’t provide much in the way of coattails for candidates to grab on to. Instead, in Arizona, the president has adopted a strategy from NASCAR: drafting.... Read more»1
Immigration officials announced Friday that illegal immigrants who are arrested on minor traffic violations and have no criminal history will no longer automatically face detention.... Read more»
Transcript and audio recording of oral arguments before the Supreme Court on Arizona’s SB 1070 immigration enforcement law.... Read more»
Supporters of Arizona’s SB 1070 were buoyed Wednesday after a U.S. Supreme Court hearing in which most justices appeared skeptical of the federal challenge to central parts of the immigration law.... Read more»
U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva released this statement Wednesday afternoon, following the U.S. Supreme Court hearing on the constitutionality of Arizona’s SB 1070 immigration crackdown law.... Read more»3
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