Ten years ago, for the first time, respondents had options to self-identify as more than one race, nearly 7 million people (roughly 2.4 percent of respondents) did so.
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.
Douglas Rivlin, NewsJunkiePost.com. March 26, 2010.
Anxiety about immigrants, immigration, and therefore immigration reform, tends to revolve around three broad categories of concern: economics, security, and culture.
As grassroots support for the pro-immigration reform March for America grows, anti-immigration groups and their allies are trying to use racial tension to stop the momentum.
There is a quiet battle underway within the GOP that may soon break out into the open. It will impact whether they can continue as a national political party in the decades ahead
Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez, New America Media. March 4, 2010.
In 1848, the former citizens of Mexico were designated “white” because of U.S. slavery and legal segregation. This artifact of history complicates the U.S. Census to this day.
Clarissa Martinez de Castro, National Council of La Raza. March 3, 2010.
The promise of change that energized voting and participation in 2008 is bringing hundreds of Latino community leaders to Washington today as NCLR launches new ads on immigration.
