By Perry Bacon Jr. and Anne E. KornblutWashington Post Staff Writers Friday, November 2, 2007
Until Tuesday night, the Democratic presidential candidates had largely ignored the subject of illegal immigration. The topic, Democratic strategists concluded, was fraught with too much potential for alienating general election voters.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/01/AR2007110102668.html?sid=ST2007110200129
posted by: Verenice Andrade
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Hispanics Feeling Heat Of Immigration Debate
By N.C. AizenmanWashington Post Staff Writer Friday, December 14, 2007
Regardless of their immigration status, Hispanics across the United States are feeling anxious and discriminated against amid the intensifying debate over immigration and stepped-up enforcement by authorities, according to a study of the nation's largest minority group released yesterday.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/13/AR2007121301733.html
posted by: Verenice Andrade
Regardless of their immigration status, Hispanics across the United States are feeling anxious and discriminated against amid the intensifying debate over immigration and stepped-up enforcement by authorities, according to a study of the nation's largest minority group released yesterday.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/13/AR2007121301733.html
posted by: Verenice Andrade
Lack of immigration reform protested in D.C.
By Tara BahrampourWashington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, January 27, 2010
About 150 activists gathered Tuesday in front of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters to deliver a "State of the Union" address that protested what they consider a lack of progress on immigration reform.
Holding signs and loudspeakers at a noon rally, the group of community organizers, advocates and faith leaders chanted "Si, se puede" ("Yes, we can") before about 20 of them joined hands across 12th Street SW near Maryland Avenue, blocking traffic. They sat on the road and waited for police to bring out their handcuffs.
"We want to bring attention to the lack of movement on immigration reform," said Gustavo Torres, executive director of CASA de Maryland, one of the organizing groups.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/26/AR2010012602698.html
posted by: V.Andrade
About 150 activists gathered Tuesday in front of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters to deliver a "State of the Union" address that protested what they consider a lack of progress on immigration reform.
Holding signs and loudspeakers at a noon rally, the group of community organizers, advocates and faith leaders chanted "Si, se puede" ("Yes, we can") before about 20 of them joined hands across 12th Street SW near Maryland Avenue, blocking traffic. They sat on the road and waited for police to bring out their handcuffs.
"We want to bring attention to the lack of movement on immigration reform," said Gustavo Torres, executive director of CASA de Maryland, one of the organizing groups.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/26/AR2010012602698.html
posted by: V.Andrade
D.C. to help U.S. identify illegal immigrants in jail
By N.C. AizenmanWashington Post Staff WriterFriday, November 13, 2009
D.C. police will be the next department to take part in a federal program whose ultimate aim is to check the immigration status of every person booked into a local jail, homeland security officials announced Thursday.
The program, known as Secure Communities, matches inmates' fingerprints against a federal database so that federal authorities can identify and possibly remove deportable illegal immigrants before they are released from custody.
Similar checks are done at all 1,200 federal and state prisons. But authorities have lacked the ability to do them across the nation's 3,100 local jails.
The Bush administration launched the program as a pilot project in October 2008, and it is being expanded under President Obama as part of an effort to focus enforcement on illegal immigrants who commit crimes, rather than those who otherwise obey the law.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/12/AR2009111209444_pf.html
posted by: Verenice Andrade
D.C. police will be the next department to take part in a federal program whose ultimate aim is to check the immigration status of every person booked into a local jail, homeland security officials announced Thursday.
The program, known as Secure Communities, matches inmates' fingerprints against a federal database so that federal authorities can identify and possibly remove deportable illegal immigrants before they are released from custody.
Similar checks are done at all 1,200 federal and state prisons. But authorities have lacked the ability to do them across the nation's 3,100 local jails.
The Bush administration launched the program as a pilot project in October 2008, and it is being expanded under President Obama as part of an effort to focus enforcement on illegal immigrants who commit crimes, rather than those who otherwise obey the law.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/12/AR2009111209444_pf.html
posted by: Verenice Andrade
Broad coalition packs Mall to urge overhaul of immigration laws
By N.C. AizenmanWashington Post Staff WriterMonday, March 22, 2010; A03
Tens of thousands of immigrants and their supporters from across the United States packed the Mall on Sunday in a last-ditch effort to spur Congress and the White House to overhaul the nation's immigration system and offer its 10.8 million illegal immigrants a path to citizenship this year against increasingly long odds.
Warmed by occasional bursts of sunshine, the festive crowd beat drums and waved American flags and placards reading "Change takes Courage" and "Obama Don't Forget Your Promise!"
"We've been patient long enough. We've listened quietly. We've asked politely. We've turned the other cheek so many times our heads are spinning," Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez (D-Ill.), who has led the push for immigration legislation within the House of Representatives, shouted, to roars of approval. "It's time to let immigrants come out of the shadows into the light and for America to embrace them and protect them."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/21/AR2010032100956_pf.html
posted by: Verenice Andrade
Tens of thousands of immigrants and their supporters from across the United States packed the Mall on Sunday in a last-ditch effort to spur Congress and the White House to overhaul the nation's immigration system and offer its 10.8 million illegal immigrants a path to citizenship this year against increasingly long odds.
Warmed by occasional bursts of sunshine, the festive crowd beat drums and waved American flags and placards reading "Change takes Courage" and "Obama Don't Forget Your Promise!"
"We've been patient long enough. We've listened quietly. We've asked politely. We've turned the other cheek so many times our heads are spinning," Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez (D-Ill.), who has led the push for immigration legislation within the House of Representatives, shouted, to roars of approval. "It's time to let immigrants come out of the shadows into the light and for America to embrace them and protect them."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/21/AR2010032100956_pf.html
posted by: Verenice Andrade
Jail Steps Up Screening For Illegal Immigrants
Homeland Security Database Is Added
By Jennifer BuskeWashington Post Staff WriterThursday, October 8, 2009
Prince William regional jail officials have joined a federal system to tighten their screening of inmates' immigration status and potentially deport those in the United States illegally.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Secure Communities initiative provides jurisdictions across the nation access to more comprehensive federal records, ICE officials said.
"Secure Communities is a Department of Homeland Security initiative to more broadly manage and modernize the processes used to identify and ultimately remove dangerous criminal aliens from our communities," said Marc Rapp, acting executive director of Secure Communities. "Our goal with this effort is to use information sharing to prevent criminal aliens from being released back into the community, with little or no additional burden on our local law enforcement partners."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/06/AR2009100604168_pf.html
posted by: Verenice Andrade
By Jennifer BuskeWashington Post Staff WriterThursday, October 8, 2009
Prince William regional jail officials have joined a federal system to tighten their screening of inmates' immigration status and potentially deport those in the United States illegally.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Secure Communities initiative provides jurisdictions across the nation access to more comprehensive federal records, ICE officials said.
"Secure Communities is a Department of Homeland Security initiative to more broadly manage and modernize the processes used to identify and ultimately remove dangerous criminal aliens from our communities," said Marc Rapp, acting executive director of Secure Communities. "Our goal with this effort is to use information sharing to prevent criminal aliens from being released back into the community, with little or no additional burden on our local law enforcement partners."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/06/AR2009100604168_pf.html
posted by: Verenice Andrade
Justice Department considers suing Arizona to block immigration law
By Jerry Markon and Anne E. KornblutWashington Post Staff Writer Thursday, April 29, 2010
Officials in the Obama administration are urging the extraordinary step of suing Arizona over its new immigration law, and the Justice Department is considering such an action to block the legislation from taking effect, government officials said Wednesday.
The Arizona law criminalizes illegal immigration by defining it as trespassing and empowers police to question anyone they have a "reasonable suspicion" is an illegal immigrant. President Obama and Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. have blasted the legislation, with Obama saying that it "threatened to undermine basic notions of fairness."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/28/AR2010042805838.html
Officials in the Obama administration are urging the extraordinary step of suing Arizona over its new immigration law, and the Justice Department is considering such an action to block the legislation from taking effect, government officials said Wednesday.
The Arizona law criminalizes illegal immigration by defining it as trespassing and empowers police to question anyone they have a "reasonable suspicion" is an illegal immigrant. President Obama and Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. have blasted the legislation, with Obama saying that it "threatened to undermine basic notions of fairness."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/28/AR2010042805838.html
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