Immigrants Make U.S. Workers Richer

By Michael S. Derby Wall Street Journal Blogs The San Francisco Fed is wading into the contentious debate over whether immigrants help or hurt employment for American citizens, in a paper that asserts new entrants to the nation help make almost everybody wealthier. The report, published Monday, was written by Giovanni Peri, an economics professor at the University of California, Davis. He is currently a visiting scholar at the bank. The report counters those who believe immigrants ...

Self-proclaimed civil rights leader Glenn Beck’s history of racially charged rhetoric

Attacks on "racist" President Obama Beck: Obama is a "racist" with a "deep-seated hatred for white people." On the July 28, 2009, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, Beck said of President Obama: "This president, I think, has exposed himself as a guy, over and over and over again, who has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture." Beck added: "I'm not saying that he doesn't like white people, I'm saying he has a problem. He has a -- this guy is, I believe, a racist...

Poll: Hispanic immigrants hopeful about life in US

By NANCY BENAC and ILEANA MORALES The Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Daily life for Marlen Lopez sounds anything but easy: The undocumented worker cleans offices to pay her bills and hasn't seen her 8-year-old son since she left El Salvador three years ago. Yet Lopez is happy with her job, hopeful about the future and confident her son will one day graduate from college in the United States. For the 33-year-old Lopez, as for many other Hispanic immigrants, optimism about life in the...

Tracking the Anti-Immigrant Initiatives on NumbersUSA.

NumbersUSA is an affiliate group of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the group that works behind the scenes to push anti-immigrant laws such as Arizona's SB1070.  Although they attempt to project themselves as an objective, go-to source on issues of immigration, the Southern Poverty Law Center designates FAIR as a hate group and their founder, John Tanton has publicly advocated for a clear, "European-American" majority. Visit NumbersUSA's website to track the latest deve...

SPLC: Congressman’s Immigration Remarks Prompt Calls for Death, Torture

Posters on neo-Nazi forums are publicly calling for the torture and murder of Congressman Pete Stark (D-Calif.) over comments he made on June 26 during a Fremont, Calif., town hall meeting. The Youtube video of the event has gone viral among racist and anti-immigration groups. During the meeting, Stark mocked a questioner who identified himself as a Minuteman, the loosely organized movement that is best known for holding armed border-watch patrols, by saying, “Who are you going to ki...

AP: Man With Neo-Nazi Ties Leading Patrols In Arizona

By MICHELLE PRICE PHOENIX — Minutemen groups, a surge in Border Patrol agents, and a tough new immigration law aren't enough for a reputed neo-Nazi who's now leading a militia in the Arizona desert. Jason "J.T." Ready is taking matters into his own hands, declaring war on "narco-terrorists" and keeping an eye out for illegal immigrants. So far, he says his patrols have only found a few border crossers who were given water and handed over to the Border Patrol. Once, they also found a ...