Despite the devastating consequences of state immigration laws in Alabama and Arizona, legislators in other states have introduced similar enforcement bills this year.
Maribel Hastings, Huffington Post. February 9, 2012.
Republicans bet that Obama's failure to pass immigration reform will cut his Latino votes, while Democrats bet that Republican anti-immigrant rhetoric will work in his favor.
Walter Ewing, Immigration Impact. August 26, 2011.
After the DHS announced a modest shift in policy to identify "low priority" deportation cases, anti-immigrant activists continued to scream delusional, "amnesty!" rhetoric.
The Center for American Progress estimates that a mass deportation strategy for the 10.8 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. would cost $285 billion.
In the battle over whether or not the “tea party tent” will include hardliner opponents of immigration and immigration reform, the rhetoric is heating up.
