Sara Rimer, EJI, May 3, 2024 "... On May 3, 1913, California enacted the Alien Land Law, designed to deny Japanese families their foothold in America by denying them the right to own land. The law...
Galen Bacharier, Des Moines Register, May 3, 2024 "The U.S. Department of Justice will sue Iowa to block a new immigration law criminalizing "illegal reentry" if it remains in effect,...
Sophia Bollag, San Francisco Chronicle, Apr. 30, 2024 "Former President Donald Trump says he will compel local police to enforce federal immigration law if he’s reelected, which would put...
HRW, May 1, 2024 "The administrations of US President Joe Biden and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador are forcing thousands of people seeking asylum in the US to wait for...
eCornell Keynotes, May 1, 2024 "In this discussion, Marielena Hincapié, Distinguished Immigration Fellow and Visiting Scholar at Cornell Law School, interviews Jonathan Blitzer, staff writer...
"Last summer, in the wake of the US Senate’s passage of S. 744, the “Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act,” Latino Decisions, in concert with America’s Voice, identified three tiers of Democratically and Republican held competitive House districts where Latino voters are sufficiently concentrated to be influential in 2014. Our analysis suggests that there are enough competitive districts presently held by both parties where Latino voters, and by extension, the politics of immigration reform, could determine the outcome and potentially majority control of the House.
This analysis was then followed by a survey of Latino voters – including sub-samples of respondents with a history of voting in midterm elections and those whose participation to date has been limited to presidential elections (“Presidential Surge Voters”) – residing in the 24 tier one and tier two Republican held districts assessing the degree to which immigration reform would affect their decision to vote in 2014 and for which party. Some of the survey highlights...." - David F. Damore, Thomas Schaller, Apr. 21, 2014.