The California Supreme Court Monday unanimously upheld a state law granting in-state tuition rates to undocumented residents who attended high school for at least three years in California.
The Los Angeles Times reported last night that this was the first…
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”–Emma Lazarus
That famous line may no longer symbolize the United States’ attitude toward immigration, although you don’t have to go far to find a place where those…
Eighty-one percent of Latino voters in Colorado voted for Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet. Split the Latino vote down the middle between Bennet and Republican Ken Buck and Buck wins easily. Even if Buck had only received 30 percent of the Latino vote, he would have won the election. As it was, Buck barely out-polled gubernatorial candidate and anti-immigration hardliner Tom Tancredo among Hispanics.
Immigrant rights activists across the country recall the day, April 23, 2010, with a cold clarity.
It was the day Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law SB 1070 the strictest and farthest-reaching anti-illegal immigration legislation this country…
Have you noticed a lack of excitement in this year’s races? Oh sure, you’ve got Tom Tancredo calling out John Hickenlooper on immigration. You’ve got Tancredo calling for the legalization of marijuana.
You’ve got all kinds of noise. You’ve…
In Nebraska, where unemployment is less than 5 percent, where immigrant labor has been a vital part of the agriculture scene for decades, Republican Gov. Dave Heineman ran four years ago on a platform that emphasized his opposition to illegal…
Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper Friday called Tom Tancredo “pretty much a lifetime politician.” That’s about as spicy as it got when the Democratic nominee for governor spent 20 minutes on the phone with the Colorado Independent.
Now that Senate Democrats have indicated that they will not vote on whether to extend the Bush tax cuts before midterm elections, the biggest news in Washington today might be that Stephen Colbert, of Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report,”…
Salt Lake City’s Deseret News has long been a voice of conservatism in the West — and for good reason seeing as the paper is owned by the Mormon Church.
The New York Times reported today, however,…
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell Sunday said the Republican Party needs to support policies that would enable illegal Mexican immigrants to achieve legal status in the United States.
He made his comments on NBC’s Meet the Press.…
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