Amid all of the controversy along the southwestern border of the United States, there are occasional and surprising moments of uplift. CNN reported recently about a Brownsville, Texas woman - Eulalia Garcia Maturey, now 101 years old - who was brought to the United States...
Anyone who's seen a TV police drama knows the drill: a minute before the credits roll and cut to a commercial, the good guys arrest the bad guys, and recite the now-familiar Miranda warnings about the right to remain silent, that anything you say may...
Many industrialized nations are still shaking off the effects of the recent financial crisis, and keeping interest rates low in the hopes of stimulating business growth. Therein lies an opportunity for arbitrage. As the New York Times reports, many big investors are shipping money overseas...
The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) is an agency of the Justice Department that determines, through administrative hearings, whether people arrested for immigration violations should be removed from this country, or permitted to stay. To help individuals facing possible deportation (now referred to as...
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano announced last week that the Obama administration has achieved "record-breaking immigration enforcement statistics" in fiscal year 2010 (FY10), which ended September 30th. (See Secretary Napolitano Announces Record-Breaking Immigration Enforcement Statistics Achieved under the Obama Administration, DHS press...
Former CNN anchorman Lou Dobbs is back in the spotlight again after leaving his old job in network news almost a year ago; but we can be fairly sure it's not the kind of attention he's looking for. After a year-long investigation, The Nation magazine...
Latino voters in the United States were a pivotal constituency in the 2008 general elections, a linchpin of the broad coalition that helped elect President Obama and secure Democratic control of Congress. In the event, Democratic control of Congress turned out to be far more...
Hope springs eternal, it would seem. People still run for governor of California, even as the state continues to reel from massive economic woes compounded by - and compounding - an ongoing budget crisis; and candidates for public office continue to come forward, sheepishly admitting...
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and NewsCorp Chairman and CEO, Rupert Murdoch, teamed up last week at a hearing of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, testifying in support of comprehensive immigration reform legislation. The hearing was on the role of immigration in strengthening America's...
Republicans now have their own CIR measure, introduced last week by Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT). According to the Salt Lake City Examiner, the Hatch bill would clamp down on border security and illegal immigration, and impose strict new limits on immigrant eligibility for social safety...
