News 21’s immigration coverage ends this week, after 6 months of ICE raids and tight electoral races.
Within the dual themes of “New Voters” and “Old Fears,” we tracked the increasing power and rising visibility of immigrant voters, along with the backlash against them in places as far-flung as Hazleton, Pa. and Farmers Branch, Tex. [...]
Tag Archives: Immigration
Wrapping Up News 21’s Immigration Coverage
November 30, 2008 – 7:56 pm
Quick Hit: Could You Pass a Citizenship Test?
November 30, 2008 – 3:25 pm
The U.S. Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services unveiled a revised civic portion of its citizenship test in October.The test is unchanged in format– it consists of 10 questions drawn from a pool of 100, and you have to answer six correctly– but it purports to focus more on the principles of our government rather [...]
Economic Crisis Puts a Strain on Immigrants
November 30, 2008 – 3:12 pm
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 on [...]
E.U. Seeks Pact with Africa to Limit Immigration
November 29, 2008 – 6:15 pm
African immigrants captured off the coast of the Canary Islands last month were detained in Spain. (AP Photo)
Like illegal Latin American immigrants in the United States, illegal African immigrants have caused contraversy in Europe. Recently, the European Union’s member states agreed on a pact that would curb illegal immigration, limit unskilled immigrants and refugees, and [...]
U.S. Citizens’ Foreign Widows Denied Residency
November 25, 2008 – 7:18 pm
Both sides of the immigration debate have called for a reform of our legal immigration process, which can be Byzantine and choked with red tape, and which often seems unfair. Here’s an illustrative example.
CBS News’ 60 Minutes took a look at the plight of immigrant widows, whose marriages to U.S. citizens were not vetted by [...]
Slate Details Gov. Napolitano’s Links to ‘America’s Toughest Sheriff’
November 24, 2008 – 7:22 pm
The other day the News 21 blog looked at the future of the Department of Homeland Security, and I noted that President-elect Obama’s likely nominee to head it, Ariz. Gov. Janet Napolitano, is known in her home state as tough but moderate.
Writing in Slate today, former Arizona Republic reporter Tom Zoellner suggests the tough [...]
GOP Has “a Very, Very Serious Problem”
November 23, 2008 – 12:09 pm
Latino population distribution in 2000. The population has grown since then. (Wikipedia image)
The decline in Latino support for Republican candidates has some in the party worried. With demographic trends showing an increasingly diverse country, any party that fails to appeal to minorities is going to have trouble winning elections.
For the GOP, Florida is the state [...]
The Future of the Border, Part 2: What Will Obama Do?
November 22, 2008 – 7:29 pm
Gov. Janet Napolitano, likely the next homeland security secretary. (Wikipedia photo)
Under a new, more liberal administration, ICE will presumably tone down the raids, and the website for the presidential transition says as much:
Immigration raids are ineffective: Despite a sevenfold increase in recent years, immigration raids only netted 3,600 arrests in 2006 and have placed [...]
The Future of the Border, Part 1: The State of ICE
November 22, 2008 – 6:50 pm
Former ICE head Julie Myers. (Wikipedia photo)
Since its creation in 2003 as part of the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has earned a reputation for controversy. It is perhaps best-known by the news-consuming public for the series of high-profile raids on employers, the most infamous of which was the Postville, Iowa raid [...]
Backlash Against Newsday for Hate Crime Coverage
November 22, 2008 – 3:13 pm
Long Island-based Newsday has been following the Marcelo Lucero murder in great detail, even sending a reporter to Ecuador to interview his friends and family. But some see coverage of this case, which involves a group of American youths who allegedly attacked and killed an immigrant, as too positive about immigration.
One Newsday reporter was thrown [...]
