The Washington Times reported today that immigrant rights activists and their supporters are having a rally on March 21, 2010 at the National Mall in Washington, DC to pressure Congress to pass an immigration reform bill and urged the President to end deportations. Immigrant rights groups and their supporters who voted for the President feel that they have lost patience with [...]

The Los Angeles Times reported late last week that President Obama has sought bipartisan support from Senators Charles Schumer, a Democrat from New York and Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina despite a very uphill battle to convince lawmakers to come together and create legislation to overhaul our nation’s immigration laws. The President is seeking to [...]

The Orlando Sentinel reported today that anti-immigrant lawmakers in the Arizona Legislature banded together and introduced legislation to criminalize the presence of undocumented immigrants in their state. If the legislation becomes law, Arizona would be the only state to criminalize the presence of illegal immigrants by means expanding the definition of  trespassing. The law would state and local law enforcement to determine the  immigration [...]

Senators John Kerry and Richard Lugar introduced legislation last week to promote job creation and increase our nation’s ability to remain globally competitive.  If the bill is signed into law, it would help foreign national entrepreneurs pursue a new way to immigrate to the U.S. The Start Up Visa Act of 2010 would allow foreign nationals who are entrepreneurs to pursue an immigrant visa (green card) on [...]

The Orlando Sentinel reported recently that the system both Congress and the President direct employers to use called E-Verify to combat the hiring of illegal immigrants, is actually failing to identify over half of the unauthorized workers it checks, a research company named Westat has found. The research company found that E-Verify failed to detect so many illegal workers mainly because the system [...]

The Orlando Sentinel reported today that a study by the Pew Research Center that will be released today discusses the fading support by young people aged 18 to 29 whose strong turnout back in November 2008 for the Presidential election was claimed by demographers as the start of a new Democratic movement. The study’s findings are very significant because the results show that the diverse [...]

The Orlando Sentinel reported today that religious leaders in the Central Florida area renewed their call yesterday to Congress to pass immigration reform that if signed into law, would legalize millions of undocumented immigrants in the U.S.  The leaders have said that it is time for both the Obama administration and Congress to address this issue. The leaders, led by Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas G. Wenski, [...]

The Los Angeles Times reported today that Congressman Luis Gutierrez criticized President Obama and his administration for not doing more to seek legislation that would legalize the approximately 12 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S.  Despite his criticism, he also mentioned that he lacks the necessary votes in the U.S. House of Representatives to actually pass the bill that he sponsored. [...]

The Orlando Sentinel reported today that in President Obama’s State of the Union address tonight, he will need to genuinely reconnect with the American public despite a now divided Congress and a frustrated nation. What the President plans to do in his address tonight is to discuss job creation to turn the economy around and, to reassure the American people that he [...]

The Miami Herald reported today that in light of the rising unemployment rate (approximately 10%), an all important question has come up in the immigration reform debate.  That question is, “Will legalizing millions of undocumented immigrants further hurt or help the economy?” The answer is difficult to come by due to conflicting reports that were issued recently.  One such report released last week endorsed [...]