Over the past months, the country has seen the DREAM Act and immigration in general being used by both Republicans and Democrats to savage each other politically.
After 9/11, immigration reform was only discussed as a national security issue, and many policies were put in place aimed at stopping terrorists from entering the country.
Jonah Most, Hannah Palmer, New America Media. July 1, 2012.
Lawyers and immigrant rights advocates characterized the ruling as an affirmation that individual states do not have the power to create their own immigration policies.
California is poised to pass a bill to let local jurisdictions opt out of the federal program that routes fingerprints taken at local jails to federal authorities.
May Day, the Occupy movement and the 99 percent narrative have raised the voices of low-wage workers who joined together under the banner "Organize, Legalize, and Unionize."
U.S. Department of Justice informed state officials in a letter last week that the state’s immigration law has resulted in significantly higher absence rates among Latinos.