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ICE Reports Deporting Nearly 47,000 Parents of U.S. Citizen Children
March 31, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Troubling New Report Revealing Deportations Data for First Half of 2011. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the first half of 2011 deported 46,686 parents who had at least one U.S. citizen child, says an ICE report made public on Monday. continue reading »
Activists Prepare for Supreme Court Ruling on Arizona’s SB 1070 Immigration Law
March 31, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Defenders of immigrants' rights on the national level are preparing to respond immediately to the Supreme Court ruling on the future of Arizona's harsh immigration law. continue reading »
House Hearing Mocks Humane Immigration Detention Standards
March 29, 2012 | by HS News Staff | HS News Network
Cynically entitled “Holiday on ICE,” the hearing reflects Chairman Lamar Smith’s allegation that the new standards—which set minimum requirements for medical care, access to counsel, and other living conditions—are a “hospitality guideline” for detained immigrants. continue reading »
Uninsured Immigrant Women Go Underground for Birth Control Pills
March 27, 2012 | by HS News Staff | HS News Network
Most undocumented immigrants in Arizona either can’t afford private health insurance or don’t qualify for state insurance programs for low-income families. As a result, many seek alternative ways of meeting their health care needs by tapping into an underground market for medications, including birth control pills. continue reading »
Unintended Consequences of U.S. Immigration Policy: the Post 1965 Surge from Latin America
March 24, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
The post-1965 surge in Mexican, Central American, and to a lesser extent South American immigration was not a direct result of policy reforms enacted in the mid-1960s but rather the unintended consequences that unfolded afterward. continue reading »
DREAM Advocates Begin a 3,000-mile March from California to Washington
March 24, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Jose Gonzalez was born in Guadalajara, Mexico in 1987, but he has called California home for almost all of his 25 years. A community college graduate, as well as a youth minister in his church, Jose wants to attend continue reading »
24% of US Child Have at least One immigrant Parent and More Immigration Facts
March 23, 2012 | by HS News Staff | HS News Network
The Migration Policy Institute's online journal, the Migration Information Source, today published its annual compilation of some of the most up-to-date and frequently sought-after facts and statistics on U.S. immigration, including current and historical population shares, illegal migration flows, continue reading »
Mississippi House Passes HB 56-Style Anti-Immigrant Bill
March 22, 2012 | by Americas Voice Online | HS News Network
Alabama has just had two more provisions of its anti-immigrant law HB 56 blocked by a federal appeals court, but the state of Mississippi is apparently determined to make a similar mistake of its own. continue reading »
Immigration Isn’t Everything: The Latino Vote Will Not Be Blindly Cast
March 20, 2012 | by New America Media | HS News Network
As Latinos are projected to make up nearly nine percent of the electorate in November--a 26 percent increase over the 2008 figure, according to NALEO--the buzz around the power of the Latino vote is warranted. continue reading »
Put the Brakes on Hate- Sign Petition Here against Anti-Immigrant Law
March 15, 2012 | by Americas Voice | HS News Network
Hyundai and Honda have the power to change history when it comes to Alabama’s anti-immigrant law, HB 56. Auto manufacturing is one of the most important industries in Alabama; lawmakers would scramble to repeal the law if car companies were to really put their foot down about it. continue reading »
Georgia Passes New Immigration Law Concerning Dreamers
March 13, 2012 | by HS News Staff | HS News Network
Last Monday, March 6th, the Georgia Senate, passed a new immigration law called the SB458. Represented by the Republican Party, this law addresses the current issues related to the Dream Act and recent state legislature that pertains to undocumented immigrants and their children. continue reading »
Undocumented Migrants Will Change U.S., Mexican Priest Activists Says
March 10, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Undocumented immigrants will remake U.S. society and politics in the coming years, a Mexican priest who advocates on behalf of Central American migrants said. continue reading »
9500 Liberty - Watch Award Winning Immigrant Documentary Now on Snagfilms.com
March 10, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
9500 Liberty documents the first time in United States’ history that an Arizona-style immigration law was actually implemented. For eight weeks, Prince William County, Virginia adopted a law requiring the police to question continue reading »
“I’m Getting Arrested” App Aims to Help the Undocumented
March 10, 2012 | by New America Media | Latino Daily News
A group of pro-immigrant rights activists in Arizona aim to develop a smartphone application that would help immigrants notify friends, family and their attorney if they are detained and arrested during a traffic stop. continue reading »
Latino Group Joins Re-Enactment of Selma to Montgomery March
March 10, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Thousands of people gather in Alabama each year to re-enact the Selma to Montgomery March that took place 47 years ago. This year protesters will have not just a memory but a new cause as they march across the Edmund Pettis Bridge. continue reading »
70% Californians say Undocumented Should be Able to Keep their Jobs
March 8, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Seventy percent of Californians feel that undocumented immigrants who have lived and worked in the country for at least two years should have the opportunity to keep their jobs, a new poll by the Public Policy Institute of California shows. continue reading »
Undocumented California Woman Deported After Protesting Foreclosure On Her Home
March 8, 2012 | by Think Progress | HS News Network
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials last week deported an undocumented California woman to Mexico following a citizen’s arrest that occurred as she protested a potentially illegal foreclosure on her home. continue reading »
Georgia Mulls Banning Undocumented from Public Universities
February 29, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Activists and students in Georgia rallied here to urge legislators to reject SB 458, which if approved would prohibit access by undocumented immigrants to all of the state's public universities. continue reading »
Latinos Harassed, Immigrants Denied Pay, Families Live Without Water Thanks To Anti-Immigrant Law
February 28, 2012 | by Think Progress | HS News Network
Since HB 56, Alabama’s extreme immigration law, went into effect last fall, children stayed home from school out of fear that their parents would be deported, and U.S.-born children have been denied food stamps because of their parents’ immigration status. continue reading »
The Top 10 Things You Should Know About Arizona’s Latinos and Immigrants
February 25, 2012 | by Center for American Progress | Latino Daily News
Since Arizona’s Republican-controlled legislature and governor passed the harsh anti-immigrant law S.B. 1070 in 2010, the state has been ground zero for the nation’s increasingly acrimonious immigration debate. The policies enacted in S.B. 1070 continue reading »
