Valeria Fernández, New America Media. March 23, 2012.
Undocumented immigrant women must travel to Mexico, where no prescription is required, or buy them from the underground market in Phoenix, without seeing a doctor first.
Some spectators in the audience giggled at Romney's answer. "Self-deportation," however, is no joke. It amounts to laws that harm undocumented immigrants and Latinos.
Walter Ewing, Immigrant Impact. February 15, 2012.
The report reaches a number of conclusions not only about the benefits of immigration to Maryland, but about which policies maximize those benefits and which policies stifle them.
Valeria Fernandez, New America Media. September 29, 2011.
Allegations range from Border Patrol agents denying food and water to adults and children in detention for several days, to purposely separating families during deportation.
Valeria Fernandez, New American Media. September 14, 2011.
A Hispanic advocacy group decided to call off the boycott initiated in response to brutal anti-immigrant legislation, but grassroots organizations were determined to stay put.
Many in the LGBT community bristle at any comparison with the struggles of undocumented people. But all of the rights the DREAMers are demanding, gays already have.
McCain used to say: “I don’t believe there is another issue that is more important to our Nation than immigration reform…We can no longer afford to delay reform.”
Valeria Fernandez, New America Media. April 10, 2010.
Judicial vacancies, staff shortages, and increased detention, which started under Bush and continues to grow under Obama, are part of the reason for the huge immigration caseload.
Mary Giovagnoli, Immigration Impact. April 3, 2010.
Lack of oversight and transparency, and hiding behind “law enforcement sensitive” designations, are all emblematic of the agency that is in the business of deporting people.
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.
In the past few weeks, new voices have been added to the call for immigration reform: Republicans who recognize that ignoring immigration is ignoring the future of their own party.
