Walter Ewing, Immigration Impact AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. November 22, 2009. A new report flies in the face of 100 years of data showing immigrants are less likely to commit serious crimes than the native-born.
Janet Murguía, AlterNet. November 21, 2009. My problems with Dobbs surfaced more than two years ago, during the debate over the last version of immigration reform.
Marcelo Ballve, AlterNet. November 19, 2009. Organizers are putting together a series of “house parties” after the White House said it was preparing to push Congress on immigration reform early in 2010.
Michelle Chen, ColorLines RaceWire. November 18, 2009. We can argue about the nuances of immigration reform all we want. But the real conversation begins when -- and only when -- we acknowledge elements of structural racism.
Dawn Teo, Huffington Post AlterNet: Immigration. November 17, 2009. When two Tea Partiers entered an area designated for those protesting their presence, they were assaulted with signs.
Maribel Hastings, America's Voice. November 16, 2009. Organized anti-immigrant groups range from extremist neo-Nazi organizations to respected Washington, D.C.-based think tanks.
Mary Giovagnoli, Immigration Impact. November 15, 2009. Napolitano challenged Congress to do its share, to be brave enough to give her the tools she needs to enforce and transform our immigration laws.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet AlterNet: World. November 15, 2009. So far, no GOP member has signed onto legislation offering residency to the kin of foreign-born vets.
Angelo Falcón, New America Media. November 14, 2009. Will we be seeing more Latino executives, anchors, commentators, contributors, and producers at CNN?
David Neiwert, Orcinus AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. November 13, 2009. They're being much more public in their full-on expressions of racism, nativism, and xenophobia.
Staff, RestoreFairness.org AlterNet: Immigration. November 12, 2009. Esmeralda never realized that her experience in detention would match the trauma of discrimination she had faced back home.
Mario Solis-Marich, Nuestra Voice AlterNet: Immigration. November 11, 2009. Democrats need a man that can inspire Latinos and other independents to come to the polls and vote for Democrats – Tancredo is that man!
Marielena Hincapié, New America Media. November 11, 2009. Congress inexplicably restricts low-income legal immigrants from the federal Medicaid and Medicare programs, which provide a modicum of security for the most vulnerable.
Marcelo Balive, New America Media. November 10, 2009. The House's shift is modest. But it might be just what's needed to enact meaningful changes to our immigration policy.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. November 3, 2009. The feds are reportedly looking at a pattern of law enforcement being used to intimidate political opponents.
Mary Giovagnoli, Immigration Impact. November 3, 2009. It's a matter of priorities -- every dollar spent on the deportation iss a dollar not spent on improving immigration services and processing applications quickly and efficiently.
Jill Garvey, Imagine 2050 AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. November 2, 2009. Perhaps the best guide as our nation traverses immigration reform is to demand that every immigrant, refugee, and citizen is treated as a human being.
