The US is home to ten million undocumented immigrant workers and their families. This category has articles and links on various issues and perspectives of immigration reform, including analysis of President Bush's immigration reform proposals.
The Obama administration's 2010 immigration reform agenda, as outlined on November 14, 2009 by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
Readers share their thoughts about whether or not illegal immigrants who have been working and living in the U.S. and paying U.S. taxes for at least three years should be offered a path to U.S. citizenship.
Illegal immigration into the US is highly profitable for employers, the US and Mexico. In Fall 2005, these parties are silently enticing illegal immigrants to enter and work in this country. Poverty-stricken immigrants respond, and then are blamed by US citizenry for being in the US. The purpose of this article is to explain why the US can't afford and doesn't plan to to end illegal immigration.
Text of DHS Director Janet Napolitano's remarks to the House Homeland Security Committee on Feb 25, 209 about border security, national security and other plans and goals for the Homeland Security Department.
An overview and quick-reading details of '08 presidential candidate Barack Obama's policies and plans for reform of U.S. immigration laws, regulations and practices.
This Info Center describes the status and politics of immigration reform and illegal immigration, via the most-read and most searched-for articles, columns and posts at About.com's Guide to Liberal Politics.
Summarizes major provisions, and the pros and cons, of S. 1348, Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act, which Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid introduced on May 9, 2007. S.1348 was drafted in cooperation with the White House, and co-authored by a bipartisan group of 12 senators.
Sen. Barack Obama delivered these courageous, wise words on June 6, 2007 on the U.S. Senate floor when introducing a controversial amendment to the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007.
Cesar Chavez, one of America's great civil rights leaders, never owned a home. Never earned more than $6,000 in a year. Feted by Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr, honored by President Bill Clinton, Chavez did much to secure better wages, health care and working conditions for migrant farm workers. Cesar Chavez is a role model for other Latinos fighting for civil rights.
In response to an immigration bill passed in late 2005 by the US House, Catholic Cardinal Roger Mahony, Archbishop of Los Angeles, the largest US diocese with five million Catholics, wrote this letter to President Bush, decrying and pledging to defy the new mandate that organizations first check immigration status before providing services to any person
This website is designed to help achieve the goals of the Justice for Immigrants Campaign. It provides tools and information for Catholic and community-based organizing, education, and advocacy efforts to achieve reforms in our nation’s immigration laws and policies that better reflect our values as a nation of immigrants.
Immigrant and religious groups founded the Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights (ICIR) in 1994. ICIR has grown into a network of 1000-plus congregations, organizations, lay and religious leaders throughout California. We challenge policies, legislation and attitudes that attack newcomers by giving life to our shared faith traditions and promoting hospitality to the "stranger in our midst."
Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) is a nonprofit organization of 70,000 members that seeks to improve border safety, to stop illegal immigration and to promote controlled immigration levels. FAIR is a non-partisan groups with members ranging from a wide political spectrum, from liberal to conservative.
This bibiography provides an extensive selection of books and gov't documents dealing wih American immigration issues from 1980 to now. The bibligraphy was compiled by University of Southern California, which holds all the materials in archive. Topics include amnesty, asylum, criminality, ethnicity, foreign policy, undocumented workers, immigration, specific countries of origin and more.
