Local sweeps jail many undocumented immigrants with no criminal records
The Daily Briefing Some kids get to spend their summers at sleepaway camp. Twelve-year-old Anisha Patel, however, can tell her friends this fall that she spent a few hou... Buckeye Forum Podcast The...
View ArticleCNN's ‘White Hispanic' Label For George Zimmerman Draws Fire
CNN is trying its hand at anthropology. In a case that highlights continuing confusion over how to define Latino ethnicity, the television news network has set off a controversy over its continued use...
View ArticleTrayvon Martin & 8 Other Trials That Stirred Racial Tensions
Mario Tama/Getty Images When George Zimmerman's "not guilty" verdict was announced Saturday evening, the news inspired protests in cities across the U.S. The ruling hit black communities especially...
View ArticleAnn Coulter's Bad Immigration Math
Loading Slideshow Immigration reform will destroy the economy Coulter doesn't just think immigration reform will hurt the economy -- <a...
View ArticleStop-And-Frisk Bills' Success Thanks To Bloomberg And Kelly, NYPD Sources Say
By Murray Weiss NEW YORK CITY — Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and Mayor Michael Bloomberg have to accept the lion's share of the blame for being saddled with expected oversight from a new inspector...
View ArticleFederal panel: Neb. city's immigration law legal
A federal appeals panel on Friday upheld an eastern Nebraska city's ban on renting to people who aren't in the U.S. legally, opening the door for the town of Fremont to begin enforcing its law and...
View Article>Rise of Latino population blurs US racial lines
WASHINGTON (AP) — Welcome to the new off-white America. A historic decline in the number of U.S. whites and the fast growth of Latinos are blurring traditional black-white color lines, testing the...
View ArticleOccupy Los Angeles: What Is The Role Of The City's Latinos?
Andrea Long-Chavez in Los Angeles contributed to this report. Los Angeles County, California, is home to 1.8 million Latinos. It is also home to Occupy L.A., the Southern California city's answer to...
View ArticleRise of Latino population blurs US racial lines
WASHINGTON Welcome to the new off-white America. A historic decline in the number of U.S. whites and the fast growth of Latinos are blurring traditional black-white color lines, testing the limits of...
View ArticleUndocumented Immigration Drops After Decade-Long Rise
By HOPE YEN, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — New census data released Thursday affirm a clear and sustained drop in illegal immigration, ending more than a decade of increases. The number of undocumented...
View ArticleAnn Coulter Wants More British Immigrants Instead Of Latin Americans
Loading Slideshow Immigration reform will destroy the economy Coulter doesn't just think immigration reform will hurt the economy -- <a...
View ArticleTom Tancredo Offers Fake Math To Defend Steve King
Immigration hawks don’t seem to excel at math. Former Colorado Congressman and proud immigration reform opponent Tom Tancredo defended Rep. Steve King’s (R-Iowa) controversial comments about...
View ArticleUS immigration rights activists rally to condemn detentions in courthouses
• May Day rally targets surge in detentions at US courthouses • Activists say undocumented people now fear to enter courts The Milwaukee rally of Voces de la Frontera. Photograph: Voces de la...
View ArticleU.S. sees a sustained drop in illegal entries
The United States saw a clear and sustained drop in illegal immigration last year, ending more than a decade of increases, according to data released Thursday by the Census Bureau. The number of...
View ArticleIllegal farmworkers to D.C.: A little would do a lot
IMMOKALEE, Fla. -- Undocumented Guatemalan tomato picker Mateo Sebastian has not been home in five years, and that is the main reason he listens closely to any news about immigration reform. "I have...
View ArticleIllegal immigration drops after decade-long rise
Click photo to enlarge FILE - In this June 28, 2011, file photo, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and immigration reform activist Jose Antonio Vargas, listens as Homeland Security Secretary Janet...
View ArticleNew York's stop-and-frisk policy is unconstitutional, judge rules
Judge Shira Scheindlin says policy violates individuals' right to protection and orders appointment of independent monitor The verdict follows a two-and-a-half month trial resulting from a federal...
View ArticleImmigration authorities drop deportation of Colorado activist
Denver, Aug 9 (EFE). U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have released Jeanette Vizguerra, a Mexican activist living in Colorado, supporters of her 4yearlong battle against deportation said...
View ArticleIn Immigration Deportation Case, Son's Letter Begs Judge Rex Ford Not To...
When Maximino Hoz presented his case asking for relief from deportation, he submitted letters from his children’s teachers, therapists and friends saying his family would suffer extreme hardship if he...
View ArticleAs jobs decline, many illegal immigrants are returning to Mexico
When Mitt Romney said months ago that enforcing laws against employing illegal immigrants could lead to "self-deportation" by those workers, many critics scoffed. But according to a new Pew Hispanic...
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