Obama's ICE promised to “focus on the employer” and pursue “aggressive criminal and civil enforcement against (employers) who knowingly violate the law.”
The inside story of Ted Kennedy's all-out push to pass an immigration reform bill in 2007 is told in "The Senators’ Bargain," a revealing new documentary airing this week.
Whatever its ultimate impact on immigration politics this year, the rally served to galvanize a new cohort of immigrant activists, especially young people and recent immigrants.
Posted on Apr 13, 2005, Source: Pacific News Service
Latin American politicians, eager to put their region back on the world's radar screen, are openly promoting Latin American cardinals for the papacy, sometimes to the chagrin of Catholic Church leaders.
Posted on Mar 5, 2005, Source: Pacific News Service
In the aftermath of the assassination of Dorothy Stang, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva is scrambling to appear green. But many fear that an unholy alliance between government and agribusiness will bring more forest destruction.
Posted on Jan 8, 2004, Source: Pacific News Service
A mix of hope and suspicion is filling the editorial pages of the nation's ethnic news media in response to President Bush's new proposal on undocumented immigrants.
Posted on Dec 30, 2003, Source: Pacific News Service
Despite FCC crackdowns on microradio broadcasters, one intrepid DJ is sending out over the airwaves the sounds of 'sonido,' a popular grassroots musical style.
Posted on May 26, 2003, Source: Pacific News Service
Pending changes to media ownership rules are making some publishers and journalists in the nation's growing ethnic media markets nervous -- and a few others expectant.
Posted on Oct 31, 2002, Source: Pacific News Service
The discovery that sniper suspect John Lee Malvo is an undocumented immigrant has reignited the debate over changes to U.S. immigration policy. Both the right, which seeks tighter controls, and the left, which favors an amnesty for illegal aliens, may be erroneously framing the debate around national security.
