Let’s welcome the new Green Card! For the past several years, the color of the Green Card has remained a light shade of pink. On May 11, 2010, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced that it has completely redesigned the card, adding new and enhanced features. Among its many improvements,…
Top Justice Department officials have drafted a legal challenge asserting that Arizona’s controversial immigration law is unconstitutional because it impinges on the federal government’s authority to police the nation’s borders, sources said Wednesday. At the same time, the government officials said, the department’s civil rights section is considering possible legal…
This is a letter by Rev. Dr. Billy Bruner, Letter to the editor. Another point of view about the Arizona Law debate: I am writing this letter in concern over so many being upset about a law dealing with “illegals.” There are those who support the illegal immigrants and feel…
Great poem by Leslie Holman, AILA Secretary, 5/7/10 They’ll take you out of the ball game They’ll pick you out of the crowd. They’ll hand you a warrant, your bags they will pack They’ll make sure you never get back ‘Cause they root, root root For their “home” team. If…
We feared that this may happen, and it did. Immigration reform has become the first of President Barack Obama’s major priorities dropped from the agenda of an election-year Congress facing voter disillusionment. Sounding the death knell was Obama himself. The president noted that lawmakers may lack the “appetite” to take…
Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday that the federal government may go to court to challenge Arizona’s new law which makes it a state crime to be in the United States illegally. The controversial bill gives Arizona law enforcement the authority to stop people whom officers have “reasonable suspicion” of…
The owner of the landmark restaurant and bakery The French Gourmet and a longtime manager there pleaded not guilty to federal charges that they hired illegal workers and lied to the government that they had the proper work documents. Michel Malecot, president of the restaurant, bakery and catering business on…
Now that Arizona lawmakers have passed what’s considered some of the toughest immigration legislation in the country, other states are watching to see whether they should follow in the state’s footsteps or stand back. Arizona’s bill orders immigrants to carry their alien registration documents at all times and requires police…
Some call this the strictest immigration bill ever introduced, is going through the Arizona legislature. If the bill becomes law, one of its provisions would allow local police to check a person’s immigration status. Currently, that right is reserved for federal agents. Arizona’s largest police union, the Phoenix Law Enforcement…
Even though most Americans are putting money into the Social Security fund, those taxes are falling short of what’s needed to break even. Commentator Robert Reich, NPR says letting more immigrants into the U.S. may be the answer. The biggest reason Social Security is in trouble, and Medicare as well,…