A University of Massachusetts survey of Asian Americans found that 80 percent paid attention to immigration issues. 58 percent said they were sympathetic to Latinos’ position on immigration and 52 percent supported a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told the Detroit Free Press, “I don’t expect much of a fight [...]
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Weekly Immigration News Round-Up, 11/22
November 23, 2008 – 12:17 pm
Weekly Immigration News Round-Up 10/18
October 19, 2008 – 2:25 pm
A Eureka, Calif. newspaper takes a look at immigration in the national election. Where do the candidates stand? Pretty close together.
Paul Kanjorski and Nick Lampson, two of the endangered Democratic Congressman that News 21 looked at this summer, might get a boost from the financial crisis. A new poll shows Kanjorski catching up to [...]
Illegal Immigration Initiative Nets U.S. Citizens and Legal Immigrants
October 19, 2008 – 2:05 pm
Non-Somali workers protest special accommodations for Muslims in Grand Island, Ne. (Grand Island Independent, via AP)
Like many local law enforcement offices around the country, the sheriff’s department in Outagamie County, Wisc., reports suspected illegal immigrants to I.C.E. through the Criminal Alien Program. But the Appleton Post Crescent reports that many of the people on the [...]
Senate Bill Would Create Immigration Raid Guidelines
October 13, 2008 – 8:45 am
A raid on a San Diego restaurant in May. (AP Photo)
Over the course of this blog, News 21 readers have learned about Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid in Postville, Iowa, Laurel, Miss. and Greenville, S.C. Each of these raids led to the detention of hundreds of immigrants, the disruption of communities and widespread outcry. Now, [...]
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 raid [...]
Small Towns Worry about Immigration Raids
September 16, 2008 – 7:03 am
In the wake of recent immigration raids in Iowa and Mississippi, small towns across the country are worried they could be next. The Kansas City Star reports on one such community.
Milan, Mo. is home to a Farmland Foods pork packing plant that—like meatpacking businesses across the country—employs hundreds of Latino immigrants. Though Farmland says [...]
