Wednesday, August 6, 2025

DREAM ACT VOTE EXPECTED LATER TODAY

After years of negotiations, strategizing and lobbying efforts, the U.S. Senate today will have the rare opportunity to vote directly on an immigration measure when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will offer the Dream Act as an amendment to the Department of Defense (DOD) Authorization bill.  The Dream Act would grant legal status to […]

Poverty in U.S. Highest in Half a Century With 1 in 4 Hispanics Living Below Poverty Line

The U.S. Census Bureau released a report on Thursday that showed 44 million Americans live in poverty, the highest level since the first year figures became available in 1959.  The percentage among Hispanics also rose from 23.2 percent to 25.3 percent in 2009, a total of 12.4 million people. The figures are part of a […]

Birthright Citizenship in Arizona Next for Republican Behind SB 1070 and Anti-immigration Laws Sweeping Nation

For the past few months, this blog has covered stories about former George W. Bush administration official and current GOP candidate for Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach.  While his name is not widely recognized, he is the legal mind behind almost all anti-immigration legislation that is being adopted at the state and local level […]

Sen. Robert Menendez to Introduce Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill

In an announcement today, New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez said he will introduce comprehensive immigration legislation that would give 11 million undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship.  The bill could be introduced as early as the end of this month.  It would provide the legislative details of an immigration blueprint introduced by Democratic leaders earlier […]

Republicans Would Strip Rights of 340,000 Babies

  If Republicans were to have it their way, they would be the stripping the rights of 340,000 citizens simply because of who their parents are. A study released yesterday by the Pew Hispanic Center estimates that 340,000 of the 4.3 million babies born in the United States in 2008 were born to undocumented immigrants.  […]

Attorney General in Florida Proposes Law Similar to SB 1070

An Arizona-like law was proposed by Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum on Tuesday. The legislation by McCollum would require police officers to check the legal status of a suspected undocumented immigrant during a lawful stop.  Under the new legislation, Florida businesses would also be required to use a national registry to ensure any new hires […]

MALDEF and Coalition of Civil Rights Groups To Take Up Arizona Law in Court Today

MALDEF and a coalition of civil rights organizations will ask a judge in Phoenix, Arizona to block the controversial anti-immigration law S.B. 1070 in court today at 10 a.m. PST. The legislation is set to be implemented in a matter of days, but MALDEF along with the other civil rights groups will make the case […]

Hispanic-Owned Businesses Prosper

A survey released last week by the U. S. Census Bureau showed that the number of minority-owned businesses grew at more than twice the rate of all U.S. businesses between 2002 and 2007 by nearly 46%, with the number of women-owned businesses rising by about 20%. The Preliminary Estimate of Business Ownership by Gender, Ethnicity, […]

Utah Governor to Hold Roundtable on Immigration Reform

The immigration issue is heating up in Utah.  Just a day after reports that an anonymous group circulated the names of over a thousand Utah residents it claimed are in the country illegally, Gov. Gary Herbert announced a statewide roundtable next week on immigration reform. As reported in La Plaza, the list contains very detailed […]

Donors Contribute $500,000 to Defend Arizona Anti-immigration Law

A fund created by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer to defend the state’s anti-immigration law grew to nearly $500,000 in the days following the announcement of a federal lawsuit. Established by an executive order on May 26, the Governor’s Border Security and Immigration Legal Defense Fund had received well over half of nearly 10,000 online donations […]