El Salvador will be especially hard-hit by the economic crisis in the United States. (Miami Herald video) A series of stories in the Miami Herald has been following the effect the economic crisis is having on immigrants. Immigrants, especially those working in construction or service jobs, have been hard hit, and the impact is apparent [...]
Tag Archives: illegal immigrants
Obama’s Aunt is an Illegal Immigrant. Will Voters Care?
November 1, 2008 – 3:36 pm
Obama’s Aunt’s Boston apartment building. (AP Photo) The news hit the Drudge Report yesterday that Barack Obama’s half-aunt, a Kenyan immigrant named Zeituni Onyango, is living in the United States illegally after her application for asylum was rejected. The Times of London “discovered” her in a Boston housing project, where neighbors described her as “living [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Update on Arizona: Fears of Latino Voter Fraud Lead to Massive Disenfranchisement
October 7, 2008 – 7:31 pm
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 [...]
Kobach Suing Over In-State Tuition for Illegal Immigrants
September 30, 2008 – 7:16 pm
News 21 readers are by now familiar with Kris Kobach, the one-man army against illegal immigration. Kobach, who has litigated everything from Hazleton, Pa.’s defense of its immigration ordinance to a suit against San Francisco’s sanctuary law, is also fighting Kansas over a law that lets illegal immigrants who have attended state high schools to [...]
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 [...]
Oklahoma’s Illegal Immigration Law Has Unintended Consequences
September 11, 2008 – 6:36 pm
In May of last year, Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry (D) signed a law making it a felony to transport or harbor illegal immigrants and establishing strict enforcement and identification policies. Now, the Columbus Dispatch reports, up to 25,000 Latinos have left Tulsa and thousands of Oklahomans have had difficulty getting drivers’ licenses or applying for [...]
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 [...]
Australia’s Immigration Issues Echo America’s
September 4, 2008 – 12:48 pm
The United States is the country most identified with immigration, but it is not the only destination of people fleeing poverty or oppression in their native land. A recent story in The Australian shows that immigrants to that country face some of the same challenges as America’s immigrants. The town of Robinvale, in the Australian [...]
