Border Communities Call for Investigation of Last Week’s Shooting Death of U.S. Citizen in Arizona

PLEASE REDISTRIBUTE WIDELY TO YOUR CONTACTS Southern Border Communities Coalition Press Release A second teenager dies this year at the hands of federal agents in Arizona US/Mexico Border at Douglas, Arizona (March 31, 2011) - Carlos La Madrid was known as the teenager who always smiled, who loved to play soccer, guitar and was learning to w...

Fox & Friends Hosts Hate Group Head To Push “Anchor Baby” Myth

Fox & Friends Hosts Head Of Hate Group To Push "Anchor Baby" Myth Stein Cites Children Of "Illegal Aliens" Born In The U.S. To Argue For Changing The 14th Amendment. On the March 30 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, co-host Gretchen Carlson introduced an interview with FAIR President Dan Stein by discussing reports of alleged birth tourism in which Carlson said, "pregnant women from foreign countries [are] paying thousands of dollars to give birth in the U.S." Carlson the...

Bi-National Lesbian Couple Can Press US Marriage Claim

BY PAUL SCHINDLER In what appears to be the first such action of its type, an Immigration Judge in Manhattan has adjourned deportation proceedings for the Argentine lesbian spouse of an American citizen to allow the couple to proceed with their application to have their marriage recognized for purposes of federal immigration law. Monica Alcota, 35, who came to the US a decade ago, married her partner of nearly three years, 25-year-old Cristina Ojeda, last August in Connecticut. The c...

‘Year of the checkpoint’ delivered thousands of impounds

By Ryan Gabrielson for California Watch California traffic safety officials declared 2010 the “year of the checkpoint,” and they delivered on that pledge. Police agencies ran 1,050 of the state-funded roadway sobriety operations just during the holidays (which include Christmas, New Year’s, the Super Bowl, St. Patrick’s Day and Labor Day) last fiscal year. That is nearly twice as many holiday checkpoints as law enforcement ran the previous year. In all, the California Office of Traffi...

Tough talk on immigration comes with huge credit card bill

By Ali Noorani Our national failure to fix the broken immigration system has led to record and wasteful government spending on immigration enforcement.  Billions of dollars could be saved if Congress terminated wasteful or duplicative programs and refocused our enforcement priorities on real threats. Instead, in the interest of political expediency, some members prefer to spend lavishly - adding to our already out-of-control debt- to enforce outdated rules that haven’t changed in more ...

Colorlines: Arizona May Finally Be Ready to “Take a Time Out” on Immigrant Bashing

by Julianne Hing Arizona legislators finally gave the state’s immigrant community something to celebrate last night when the state Senate rejected five anti-immigrant bills, including a pair that would have denied citizenship to children born to undocumented immigrants. Arizona was expected to lead a multi-state effort to roll back birthright citizenship, but now some other state will have to lead the charge. “It’s time for us to take a timeout,” said Repub...