Disenfranchised voter Shirley Preiss, 97. (Photo by Stokely Baksh) In an article for The Indypendent, former News 21 reporter Renee Feltz revisits Arizona, where thousands of potential voters have been unable to register due to new identification requirements. These voters, most of whom are poor, elderly and/or Latino, would have tended to vote Democratic. Thus [...]
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Update on Arizona: Fears of Latino Voter Fraud Lead to Massive Disenfranchisement
October 7, 2008 – 7:31 pm
The Myth of Immigrant Criminality
October 4, 2008 – 8:58 am
The Federation for American Immigration Reform and other restrictionist groups have long perpetuated an image of illegal immigrants as criminals who endangers the lives and property of American citizens. These groups point to incidents like the murder of Tony Bologna by an illegal immigrant in San Francisco, and the death of Amy Kortlang, who was [...]
Where Do Asian Voters Stand?
October 2, 2008 – 7:42 pm
The presidential campaigns and the press have focused a good deal of energy on Latino voters, especially in western states where they could pay a pivotal role. But what about our second largest group of immigrants? Asians make up 5 percent of the United States. While the largest Asian populations are in the solid Democratic [...]
How Will the Economy Affect Immigration?
September 29, 2008 – 5:50 pm
Today we watched the stock market plunge as the House voted down Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s financial bail-out package. Things are not looking good for the economy, which in modern times has been the main factor attracting immigrants to this country. So how will the crisis affect immigration? New census figures that came out earlier [...]
Census Data Show Dip in Foreign-Born Population
September 24, 2008 – 5:22 am
In 2007, only 511,000 people immigrated to the United States—about half the average rate since 2000, according to new census data. The foreign-born population even declined in 14 states, and in most others it grew more slowly than the previous year. What caused this immigration slowdown? Brookings Institution researcher William Frey speculated that the recent [...]
McCain Attacks Obama in New Spanish Ad
September 22, 2008 – 6:06 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyKGHvRL2_U Proving that the presidential candidates see Nevada, Colorado and New Mexico as key states and Latinos as a key demographic, John McCain has begun airing this ad in those markets. The ad blames Obama and Democrats in Congress for the failure of the comprehensive immigration reform that McCain championed. Obama and his allies in [...]
Teacher Shortage Draws Filipino Immigrants
September 15, 2008 – 6:32 pm
From rural Baldwin County, Ala., to suburban Prince George’s County, Md., teacher shortages are inviting an unlikely solution: hundreds of Filipino teachers, attracted by relatively high salaries, are coming to the U.S. to teach everything from math to special ed. The Philippines has a teacher surplus, and U.S. school districts are sending representatives to the [...]
New UK Immigration Restrictions to Affect South Asians
September 15, 2008 – 3:40 pm
With all the controversy at home, sometimes we forget that other countries have controversies over immigration as well—especially the European Union. For example, the UK enacted regulations last week that will restrict the number of immigrants that can come to the country from outside Europe. The UK’s Migration Advisory Committee, a division of the UK [...]
