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Commentary: By Marisa Treviño LatinaLista    Much news has been made overAlabama’s tough immigration policy, HB 56, and how it has adversely affected the state’s agriculture economy by driving the immigrant labor out of the state.    Rather than scrap the law or make changes that could help the farmers, politicians would rather have officials [...]

By Leslie Layton chicoSol Editor’s Note: Victor Escobar said today he has received notification from ICE that his case will be reviewed at some apparently undetermined point; the Dec. 7 deadline for leaving the country has been lifted. Escobar said he can remain in the country until the review is completed. The best possible outcome, [...]

Perspective: By Julianne Hing ColorLines     Can GOP voters stomach a presidential candidate who talks about undocumented immigrants without calling them “illegals”?     Can the tea party base that’s driving the Republican Party handle a presidential hopeful who acknowledges the impossibility of deporting every one of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country, [...]

Commentary: By Rudy Acuna    On Monday, December 5, from 6 PM to 9:30 PM, a fundraiser will be held for the Tucson Unified School District’s Mexican American Studies program at the Northridge Hall at the Student Union of California State University Northridge. It is important that we as a community show our support. Our [...]

Commentary: By Sheldon Richman    Arizona, Alabama, and Georgia have each enacted stringent laws aimed at curbing illegal immigration. Before saying more, let’s be clear about the alleged problem. What is an “illegal immigrant”? It’s simply a person — possessing natural rights, mind you — who comes to the United States without the permission of [...]

New York, NY  — The national Drop the I-Word campaign (droptheiword.com) today called for the AP Stylebook to cease use of the term “illegal immigrant.” Drop the I-Word is a public education campaign to eradicate the harmful term “illegals” and related words from public discourse, led by the Applied Research Center (ARC) and Colorlines.com, and [...]

Commentary: By Angelica Salas    There are real problems and there are distractions. The former require our undivided attention and focus but it’s the latter that often make the morning headlines.    Recently, our partner and ally Presente.org, joined by some writers, took issue with a statement signed by CHIRLA and eighteen other organizations decrying [...]

By Javier Sierra      Dan Millis will never forget what took place on Feb. 20, 2008. As a volunteer with the group No More Deaths, he was leaving gallon-sized water jugs scattered along the trails in the Arizona desert used by undocumented migrants.     This Good Samaritan and his companions came across the dead body [...]

By Valeria Fernandez New America Media MESA, Az. — Mesa voters got their say in a historical election that resulted in the recall of Republican Senator Russell Pearce, also known as the architect of SB 1070.     Pearce conceded defeat in a brief press conference in the City of Mesa surrounded by politicians, friends and [...]

By Vivian Marlene Dunbar     On Nov. 19, 2011, the Border Angels will hold their 25 anniversary celebration at the San Diego Centro Cultural de la Raza. The event marks a quarter of a century of defending and protecting immigrant rights on the US border and throughout America.     The Border Angels was founded by [...]

Editorial: This past Tuesday there were several special elections held across the country that demonstrated a shift in attitudes with the voting majority.    The most significant shift in attitude about immigration was demonstrated with the recall election of Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce, the architect of Arizona’s anti-immigrant SB 1070 Law.  At the time [...]

Commentary: By Cong. José Serrano    In response to a new report out [last week] on families separated by deportation, I have to express my profound disgust with a system that has left more than 5000 citizen children in foster care because their parents were deported. These policies are un-American and deeply troubling.    The [...]

Commentary: By Scott Nicol    How does waiving the Endangered Species Act in Glacier National Park help secure the border?    Simple. It doesn’t.    But that doesn’t matter to Rep. Rob Bishop of Utah, author of the National Security and Federal Lands Protection Act (HR 1505). Bishop claims that U.S. Customs and Border Protection [...]

By Elena Shore New America Media     A Latino radio host and blogger is calling for Cecilia Muñoz to resign from the White House for her defense of the administration’s deportation policies. Presente.org, the immigrant rights group that led the petition to get CNN’s Lou Dobbs off the air, is demanding that Muñoz denounce the [...]

Guest Editorial: By Justin Akers Chacón    Republican presidential candidates are foolishly jockeying to see who can be the harshest on undocumented immigrants.    Michelle Bachmann has called for sealing the U.S.-Mexico border with a double wall. Not to be outdone, Herman Cain has called for an electrified fence backed by military personnel armed with [...]

Commentary: By Hector Balderas    An electrified fence. On the border. Designed to kill people. Along with “real guns with real bullets.”    This is the immigration “plan” recently proposed by Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain.    And he’s one of his party’s frontrunners.    There’s no question that immigration is a serious issue that [...]

Commentary: By Pedro Rios Program Director, American Friends Service Committee – San Diego    Obama Administration officials this week touted their high record numbers of deportations – nearly 400,000 last fiscal year – as “smart and effective” law enforcement. It is neither.    Rather it reflects a precipitous loss of moral ground by a Washington [...]