Positives and negatives of President Obama's executive action

Today is a bittersweet day for the immigrant community. Thanks to President Barack Obama's action, millions of people will be protected from deportation. However, many millions more still will not be able to come out of the shadows, because the U.S. Congress has not reached an agreement to pass a reform bill ... Read more

Record number: almost 410,000 deported in the last year

President Barack Obama's administration deported 409,849 people during fiscal year 2012 (October 2011 - September 2012), almost 13,000 more than the previous year. This, despite announcing in mid-2011 that it would suspend the deportation of 300,000 undocumented immigrants in the process of being removed from the country while they conducted an evaluation of each ... Read more

Supreme Court votes in favor of anti-undocumented law in Arizona

The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-3 vote, this morning upheld an Arizona law that allows the state to severely punish companies that hire undocumented immigrants and authorizes the mandatory use of the federal E-Verify program to verify the immigration status of employees. In its resolution, the majority of ... Read more

Latino lawmakers to meet with Obama to push for immigration reform

U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-New Jersey) and Congressmen Luis Gutierrez (D-Illinois) and Nydia Velasquez (D-New York) will meet tomorrow at the White House with President Obama to discuss the need for immigration reform. During an immigration forum held today in Washington, D.C., Senator Menendez announced ... Read more

Court refuses to expedite Governor Brewer's appeal

The federal appeals court for the Ninth Circuit denied Gov. Janice Brewer's motion in the S.B. 1070 case. The governor was asking to expedite her appeal of Judge Susan Bolton's decision blocking parts of the controversial law. Had she yielded to the motion, the court ... Read more

Arizona appeals judge's decision on SB1070

The State of Arizona and Governor Janice K. Brewer filed an appeal yesterday in the federal appeals court for the Ninth Circuit, which proposes to cancel the preliminary injunction that was issued by U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton on Wednesday. Along with the appeal, a motion was filed to expedite ... Read more

Judge Blocks Portions of S.B. 1070

Just hours before the law was set to go into effect, U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton blocked the most controversial parts of S.B. 1070. The law is set to go into effect tomorrow, Thursday, July 29, but without the provisions that concerned the Latino community and immigrant activists and advocates ... Read more

Chronology of S.B. 1070

The company ImpreMedia, which owns the newspapers La Opinión of Los Angeles, El Diario/La Prensa of New York and other newspapers around the country, this week launched a special project on the controversial S.B. 1070 law. Through the digital version, you can watch videos, see photos and learn about the chronology that culminated ... Read more

Federal government to sue Arizona over SB1070 law

The Washington Post reports that the U.S. Department of Justice today will file a lawsuit against the state of Arizona to stop the implementation of SB1070. The controversial law gives police the power to question and detain any person if they have reasonable suspicion that he or she is ... Read more

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