Immigration News Coverage

Getting Immigration Right

12/26/08 | New York Times | It’s way too early to tell whether the United States under President-elect Barack Obama will restore realism, sanity and lawfulness to its immigration system. But it’s never too early to hope, and the stars seem to be lining up, at least among his cabinet nominees. The confluence of immigrants and labor is exactly what this country � particularly, and disastrously, the Bush administration � has not been able to figure out. | Read the story

Democrats Risk Losing Hispanics

12/15/08 | Wall Street Journal | Republican nominee John McCain lamented over that very turn of events this weekend. In an appearance on ABC's "This Week With George Stephanopoulos," he told his own party: "Very frankly, one of the issues that we're going to address very seriously is Hispanic participation in the Republican Party....We Republicans are going to have to recruit and elect Hispanic candidates to offices, and do a lot of other things, because that's a growing part of our population." | Read the story

The answer on immigration

12/14/08 | Washington Times | Both presidential candidates got it. They promised action on immigration reform in their first year. Moreover, when the Obama campaign quietly put together transition teams on seven priority policy areas to begin work months before Election Day, immigration reform made the cut. Why is illegal immigration now a top-tier policy concern? Is it anger at the illegal immigrants? No. | Read the story

ACLU probes local immigration actions

12/10/08 | Baltimore Sun | The Maryland chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union said today it is investigating whether local immigration policies that have sparked protests in some areas are being applied fairly and constitutionally. The Immigrants Rights Project could lead to lawsuits against jurisdictions where the ACLU concludes public officials have illegally discriminated against immigrant groups, said attorney Ajmel Quereshi, project leader. Quereshi said the ACLU has sent to all 23 Maryland counties and Baltimore city requests for documents under the state's Public Information Act. | Read the story

Obama can’t avoid immigration issue now

12/08/08 | Politico | Given that it intersects with the economy, health care, education and other key concerns, immigration is too complex a topic to ignore. As economic and health care initiatives are rushed out of the gate in January, proposed immigration reforms will likely be close behind. And Obama and congressional Democrats can no longer avoid the issue that raises fears of hate speech and false arrests of citizens and legal immigrants at work sites while angering border control hard-liners. Immigration woes stand as a symbol of a broken government, and the onus is on Democrats to govern. | Read the story

State of Fear

12/08/08 | New York Times | If Gov. Janet Napolitano of Arizona is confirmed as homeland security secretary, she will leave behind a state in full Republican control, with immigration zealots embedded in both houses of the Legislature, and not enough moderates to go around. That is the down side of President-elect Barack Obama’s decision to bring Ms. Napolitano to Washington. For years, she has been the most powerful voice of reason in a state that continues to hatch some of the dumbest, cruelest ideas anywhere for getting tough on immigrants. | Read the story

Illinois congressman vows to push for major immigration reform

12/05/08 | Dallas Morning News | "We have a new president of the United States who has made a very clear commitment to immigration reform," Mr. Gutierrez said. "We're not going to rest on the laurels of the election." Mr. Gutierrez said workplace raids that separate families must stop and that he is trying to build momentum for immigration change in the House, where he believes a bill can be passed more easily than in the Senate. | Read the story

Will immigration impasse meet its match?

12/05/08 | San Antonio Express | As governor of the state that for nearly a decade has been the most popular U.S. entry point for unauthorized border-crossers, Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano made it known often and bluntly that she had to take action because Washington was ignoring the problem. With this week's news that she's headed for a post in President-elect Barack Obama's Cabinet, activists on both sides of the immigration debate are eager to see if she'll help break the impasse. | Read the story

Full throttle on wrong track

12/05/08 | Chicago Tribune | As the Republican Party surveys its post-election train wreck, the pain must be even greater knowing that, with Hispanic voters, the GOP drove itself off the track. On Nov. 4, more than 10 million Latinos cast ballots, almost three times as many as had voted 16 years ago. Latinos subjected the GOP to a convincing act of collective punishment, despite McCain's efforts to turn back the nativists in his party. In a recent Newsweek column forlornly titled "A Way Out of the Wilderness," Rove dryly noted: "An anti-Hispanic attitude is suicidal." | Read the story

Chertoff to hand Obama immigration successes

12/04/08 | Washington Times | Mr. Chertoff said the Bush administration's recent step-up in enforcement has finally made a dent in illegal immigration, and should ease worries of those who blocked last year's immigration bill..."I think we have made a very good down payment on confidence and enforcement," he said, though he said it will be up to Mr. Obama to decide whether the federal government needs to do more enforcement before trying to achieve his campaign promise of a "comprehensive" immigration bill that includes a path to citizenship for illegal aliens. | Read the story

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