In the heat of the nearing presidential elections, another illegal immigration issue that seems to compound the current problem on immigration reform is the recent look into Latino occupation in the Republican party. “As more Latino Republicans seek and win elected office, their families’ backgrounds are becoming subject to increased scrutiny from some Latino activists, [...]
In what has been largely an almost black and white political derby between the pro-immigrant Democrats and the anti-immigrant Republicans, a presidential hopeful from the latter stands out albeit at risk of generating disapproval from fellow conservatives — showing him to be rather sympathetic to illegal immigrants. Newt Gingrich was described by a publisher who [...]
While many still staunchly believe in the indirect proportional relationship between unemployment and deportation (perhaps in the idealistic intention to find the perfect solution to the high unemployment rate in America), more realistic individuals are seeing the true effects behind the frenzied near-witch hunts caused by cracking down on illegal immigration. In an article in [...]
The deportation of illegal immigrantswho have no criminal records have been the subject of a new policy by the Obama administration. The President has sought to prevent non-criminal illegal immigrants from being driven away from the country. However, it has not seen the smoothest implementation as all across the country, illegal immigrants and immigration agents [...]
Immigration issues in 2012 election may make or break a presidential candidates chance of election. Most recently, the Arizona recall election led to Republican legislator Russell Pearce’s defeat. This has given Democrats a renewed hope for next year’s Senate and presidential elections and has many of the presidential candidates unwilling to speak out on their [...]
For the first time in the state’s history, citizens are set to see an Arizona recall election, after attracting nationwide attention particularly with the issue that begs the question of whether the illegal immigration law should be made a state matter or a federal one. As a result, the political position of the man behind [...]
There seems to be an ongoing debacle between the House Judiciary Committee and the Department of Homeland Security in that the former is having all of the latter’s immigration records subpoenaed. The Department of Homeland Security has been ordered to bring out into the open its long list of illegal immigrants, which the Republican party [...]
In what’s known to be the toughest political gesture on illegal immigration, farmers bemoan the Alabama immigration law as detrimental not only to their livelihood, but to the state’s agricultural economy as well. “Farmers in Alabama are in revolt against the state’s over-the-top immigration law, which is designed to hound illegal immigrants so that they [...]
Texas Gov. Rick Perry proposed that the federal government should extend work visas for illegal immigrants to move freely between the U.S. and their home countries. However, he stressed that he opposes giving illegal immigrants amnesty or a path to citizenship. Perry had said Thursday in an interview with CNN’s John King that arresting and deporting up [...]
