Immigration News

July 27, 2006 It's true.  House Republican leader Dennis Hastert (IL) announced nineteen more congressional hearings on immigration for the month of August.  After a month of immigration hearings in July, Hastert continues to refuse to name negotiators to a conference...

July 26, 2006 U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services announced yesterday that registrations for its electronic employment verification system had doubled in the current fiscal year, growing at a rate of 200 new employers a month.  More than 10,000 employers have...

July 26, 2006 The Washington Times reports that the finances of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, the restrictionist civilian group that patrols portions of the U.S. - Mexico border, have been called into question by its own members.  According to the article, senior...

July 26th, 2006

July 25, 2006 Faced with withering support from Hispanic voters and growing dismay at the Republican-controlled government's inability to act on the issue, two conservative Republicans officially proposed today an immigration plan that has become known as "enforcement...

July 24, 2006 Access to education is at the forefront of immigration issues.  Undocumented children are constitutionally guaranteed the right to K-12 public education and each year some 65,000 undocumented children graduate from U.S. high schools.  For most, the...