Gay marriage supporters in Denver protest the passing of California’s Proposition 8 which defines marriage in the Golden State as between one man and one woman (Denver Post) The Colorado Independent suggests Focus on the Family‘s financial support of California’s Proposition 8 was a contributing factor to recently announced layoffs at the Colorado Springs-based ministry. [...]
Tag Archives: California
California Gay Marriage Protests Cross State Lines
November 13, 2008 – 3:09 pm
Opponents of Proposition 8, which outlawed gay marriage in California, protest in the shadow of Los Angeles City Hall last weekend (Getty Images) On November 4, voters in three states — Arizona, California, and Florida — amended their constitutions to ban gay marriage. But it’s California’s Proposition 8 that is drawing the strongest response from [...]
Weekly Immigration News Round-Up 10/25
October 25, 2008 – 5:02 pm
A new Pew Hispanic Center report says that Latinos made up half of the nation’s growth since 2000. By 2007, they accounted for 15 percent of the population. USA Today takes a look at immigration in Arizona, where the issue is very much on the political radar. The collapse of the housing industry has led [...]
New Fence Will Cut Through Border Park
October 23, 2008 – 5:52 pm
Back in June, News 21’s Channtal Fleischfresser visited California’s Border Field State Park, on the Mexican border near the Pacific Ocean. There, family and friends in the U.S. and Mexico meet to talk, kiss and exchange food across the border—there’s even a cross-border church. Though the U.S. Border Patrol tries to prevent crossings, the current [...]
More Than 300 Arrested in South Carolina Immigration Raid
October 9, 2008 – 8:55 am
A four-year-old waits for word of his mother, arrested in an ICE raid. (AP Photo) Raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement continue after a sweep netted more than 1,100 suspected illegal immigrants in California last month. On Tuesday, another 300 were arrested in a raid on a poultry processing plant in Greenville, S.C. (video). In [...]
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 [...]
Weekly Immigration News Round-Up, 9/27: Raids Update
September 27, 2008 – 12:48 pm
Though the country’s attention has been focused on an ongoing financial crisis, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids are continuing, and there have been developments in the aftermath of past raids. News 21 gets you up to speed: “Fear. Stress. Isolation,” says the Hattiesburg American, listing themes in the lives of detainees’ families after the [...]
Weekly Immigration News Round-Up, 9/13
September 13, 2008 – 12:35 pm
More than 50 people were arrested by ICE during a raid at a Southern California bakery. Authorities are saying that company supervisors extorted money from the undocumented workers in return for guaranteeing them jobs. Sixty-five people were arrested in an immigration raid on a candle-making plant in Arizona, carried out by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe [...]
No Go on Illegal Immigrant ID Cards
September 8, 2008 – 6:32 pm
Until recently, Richmond, Ca., leaders, including Mayor Gayle McLaughlin, were considering a program to provide illegal immigrants with municipal identification cards. But the Contra Costa County Municipal ID Task Force decided to shelve the proposal, after San Francisco backed down from its plan amid controversy. San Francisco has lately been under fire for its lax [...]
