Category: Immigration News

In the midst of the illegal immigration issue, New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez opened an investigation into her own family heritage.

New Illegal Immigration Issue of Probing into Latino Republicans’ Family Histories

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, [...]

Republican presidential candidate, Newt Gingrich, is sympathetic to illegal immigrants.

Republican Presidential Candidate Newt Gingrich Sympathetic to Illegal Immigrants

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 [...]

Is cracking down on illegal immigration saving jobs?

Policy of Cracking Down on Illegal Immigration Begins to Show Cracks

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 [...]

New policy on the deportation of illegal immigrants needs some fine tuning.

New Policy on the Deportation of Illegal Immigrants in Need of Fine Tuning

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 (photo from MyFox Boston)

Immigration Issues in 2012 Election

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 [...]

Rest the Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric

The ongoing discussion on the illegal immigration issue has taken quite an inevitable social turn in that it has sparked anti-immigrant rhetoric. Extremists who support anti-illegal immigration seem to demonstrate not only their disapproval of illegal immigration as an issue, but their disapproval of all immigrants as a people. This has manifested in an open [...]

Sen. Russell Pearce is the subject of the Arizona recall election.

The Clamor Surrounding the Arizona Recall Election

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 [...]

Rep. Elton Gallegly, R-Calif., argued Wednesday for letting the House Judiciary Committee issue a subpoena to the Department of Homeland Security for information about the handling of aliens with criminal records. (photo by Uriel J. Garcia/Conkrite News Service)

“Hidden” Immigration Records Subpoenaed by House Judiciary Committee

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 [...]

Alabama Immigration Law

The Crackdown on the Alabama Immigration Law

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 the federal government should extend work visas allowing illegal immigrants to move freely between the U.S. and their home countries (photo by Gage Skidmore)

Rick Perry Endorses Work Visas for Illegal Immigrants

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 [...]