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Here’s How Arizona May Target Children of Immigrants
by Daisy Hernandez on June 15 2010, 8:05PM
Arizona state Sen. Russell Pearce confirmed his next legislative target: kids. And he’s busy charting his way around the 14th amendment.
Topics: 14th Amendment, Arizona's SB 1070, Immigration
Federal Appeals Court Upholds Day Labor Ban
by Michelle Chen on June 15 2010, 1:30PM
The courts have delivered a mixed bag for immigrants in recent days. The Supreme Court issued a breakthrough decision for immigrants yesterday, restoring some judicial discretion to the deportation process. But in California, a federal appeals court upheld a local…
Topics: Immigration
Unanimous Supreme Court Narrows Deportation Pipeline
by Seth Freed Wessler on June 14 2010, 11:48PM
In a hugely significant unanimous decision Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that a documented immigrant convicted of two minor drug-possession crimes will not face mandatory deportation. The ruling could drastically alter implementation of a controversial 1996 law that limited discretion…
Topics: Immigration
Study: Latino Immigrants Choose ‘White’ Pass
by Michelle Chen on June 14 2010, 2:56PM
With draconian anti-immigrant laws and deportation dragnets in high gear, it looks like America’s racial barriers are hardening against the Latino community. But who draws those lines? Researchers from University of Illinois and Ohio State have examined the racial identities…
Topics: Immigration
by Julianne Hing, Hatty Lee on June 14 2010, 12:00PM
Politicos justify our increasingly militarized southern border by pointing to public safety. But the only violent spike on record is the death of unarmed civilians.
Topics: Arizona's SB 1070, Immigration
FBI Opens Civil Rights Probe on Border Patrol Shooting
by Julianne Hing on June 14 2010, 11:42AM
Scene where Sergio Adrian Hernandez Huereca was shot dead underneath the border crossing in El Paso June 7, 2010. On Friday, the FBI added a civil rights investigation to its ongoing probe into last week’s Border Patrol shooting of 15-year-old…
Topics: Immigration
Trying To Win An Election In Arizona? Propose Tent Cities
by Julianne Hing on June 11 2010, 1:43PM
The Arizona gubernatorial primaries aren’t till August, but GOP candidates hoping to best current frontrunner Governor Jan Brewer need to start picking up the pace if they want to make a dent in her solid polling numbers. Enter Dean Martin,…
Topics: Immigration
Border Patrol Agent Who Killed Teen Pulled Gun First [Video]
by Julianne Hing on June 10 2010, 1:25PM
Univision obtained a cell phone video showing that the Border Patrol agent who killed 14-year-old Sergio Adrian Hernandez Huereca pulled his gun long before rocks were thrown. The video shows the agent riding on his bike when he stops…
Topics: Immigration
Today in Anti-Muslim Party Politics: Dutch Edition
by Michelle Chen on June 10 2010, 12:15PM
With the Tea Party making inroads in primaries across the country, you might think the rabid outbursts and vapid sloganeering are a peculiarly American phenomenon. But in fact, Thursday’s elections in the Netherlands show that the U.S. has no monopoly…
Topics: Global Affairs, Immigration
Conflicting Reports Of Border Patrol Shooting
by Julianne Hing on June 9 2010, 6:27PM
FBI officials and eyewitnesses agree that rocks were thrown Monday evening right before a Border Patrol agent shot and killed a 15-year-old boy who was on the Mexican side of the El Paso-Juarez border. They also agree that the slain…
Topics: Immigration
Latinos Leave Arizona in Droves
by Jamilah King on June 9 2010, 2:33PM
If the understated intention of Arizona’s new immigration law was to maintain the state’s white majority, it appears to be working.
Topics: Arizona's SB 1070, Immigration
Cops Call Oil Spill Workers Immigrant Gangsters
by Brentin Mock on June 9 2010, 12:00PM
A sheriff has set up checkpoints and called federal agents to BP’s cleanup sites because he says “illegal aliens” are building “criminal enterprises”—just like they did after Katrina.
Topics: Environment, Gulf Oil Spill, Immigration
Anger, But No Shock at Border Patrol Shooting of Teen
by Julianne Hing on June 8 2010, 7:35PM
Maria del Rosario and Maria Guadalupe Huereca, sister and mother of Sergio Adrian Hernandez Huereca. Last night a 14-year-old boy named Sergio Adrian Hernandez Huereca on the Mexican side of the El Paso-Juarez border was shot and killed by a…
Topics: Immigration
BREAKING: La. Sheriff Ordered ‘Illegal Alien’ Probe of Oil Spill Workers
by Guest Columnist on June 8 2010, 6:58PM
By Brentin Mock St. Bernard Parish Sheriff Jack Stephens acknowledged today that his office requested federal immigration officials search for undocumented workers among those cleaning up BP’s oil spill. After a spokesperson for the sheriff’s department initially denied involvement*—and federal…
Topics: Immigration
Border Patrol Kills Mexican Teen Near El Paso, Texas
by Julianne Hing on June 8 2010, 11:42AM
UPDATE 3:50PM ET: A city spokesperson from teenage victim Sergio Adrian Hernandez Huereca’s hometown of Juarez condemned the shooting, saying that Hernandez was with other friends playing around the international Paso del Norte bridge. CNN reports that Hernandez, who was…
Topics: Immigration
It’s Official, No Immigration Reform This Year, But More Enforcement Anyway
by Seth Freed Wessler on June 7 2010, 2:33PM
The last glimmers of hope that a comprehensive immigration reform bill would pass this year are rapidly fading in Washington. In place of a broad bill, advocates and policy makers are now moving toward a piecemeal approach to immigration reform…
Topics: Immigration
Under Political Siege, Muslim Americans Confront America’s Ugly Side
by Michelle Chen on June 7 2010, 12:02PM
Besieged by media attacks and riven by internal conflicts, Muslim American communities have been wrestling with an identity crisis for years now. The latest slew of “homegrown terrorism” allegations has prompted the Obama administration to show that it’s at least…
Topics: Immigration, National Security, Politics
Feds Target Oil Spill Workers in Immigration Probe
by Kai Wright on June 4 2010, 4:18PM
Federal officials have been targeting BP’s job sites in Louisiana in a hunt for undocumented workers who are risking their lives to clean up the disastrous oil spill.
Topics: Environment, Gulf Oil Spill, Immigration
Jan Brewer, Obama Have A “Cordial” Chat About SB1070
by Julianne Hing on June 3 2010, 4:23PM
UPDATE 6:30pm ET In her post-meeting press conference, Jan Brewer commented on the ongoing boycott efforts against Arizona. “At this point in time, I don’t think we have felt any of that impact,” she said. Not according to Phoenix Mayor…
Topics: Immigration
Even Border Patrol Says: Talk of Border Violence Overblown
by Julianne Hing on June 3 2010, 12:00PM
You wouldn’t know it from the way Republicans like Senator John McCain and Arizona Governor Jan Brewer talk about the U.S.-Mexico border, but the region is not the lawless, violence-ridden land it’s portrayed to be. At least not according to…
Topics: Immigration
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