Immigration Law

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), widely touted a possible GOP vice presidential pick, says he supports Arizona’s controversial immigration law but does not think other states should adopt similar measures. Rubio also said that Arizona officials were responding …

Florida GOP Sen. Marco Rubio on Sunday criticized President Obama’s immigration plan, the DREAM act, as “a short-term fix for a long-term problem” and said the president’s efforts on immigration have injected election-year politics into …

ATLANTA — Georgians are bracing for a U.S. Supreme Court decision that could come as early as Monday and help decide whether a substantial part of the state’s illegal immigration law is constitutional and may be enforced. At issue is … Continue reading →

After all, who will call him on it? A supine press? Congressional Democrats? With a single Homeland Security Department memo, the immigration laws no longer apply to 800,000 people. By what justification? Prosecutorial discretion, says Janet Napolitano.

It is intelligent, humane, provides a safe harbor against deportation, a ray of hope to young people cast aside by the refusal of Congress to pass the DREAM Act or any other immigration law reform. You called the new, temporary … Continue reading →

The Arizona immigration law case is the other major piece of business left. The core issue is whether federal immigration law invalidates the state law, which lets police stop anyone they believe to be an illegal immigrant and makes it … Continue reading →

WASHINGTON – No matter how it rules, the Supreme Court’s consideration of Arizona’s SB 1070 immigration law has already had one effect. The number of immigration bills and resolutions proposed in state capitals fell sharply in the first quarter of … Continue reading →

President Barack Obama, in a strikingly personal appeal, renewed his call for an overhaul of America’s immigration laws before a supportive Latino audience Friday. He portrayed rival Mitt Romney as an obstacle to measures that would give young …

But, it was an uphill struggle. In 2012 Hispanics face the reality of an Arizona law requiring law enforcement officers to check the immigration status of people they stop (now under review by the Supreme Court). EVERY Hispanic in the … Continue reading →

With the Supreme Court expected to rule next week on Arizona’s tough law against illegal immigrants, activists on both sides are preparing to pounce on the issue, whether manning voter-registration drives in Georgia and Arizona, reviving …