H. Glenn Fogle on Immigration America

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Immigration reform now seems likely. The question now is what kind of reform. One that provides a simple and straightforward path to U.S. citizenship for undocumented workers or one that makes them wait years and years for permanent legal status? Expect the debate to start in earnest in January. For now, immigrants’ rights advocates are happy that some relief for undocumented immigrants is on the way. The Obama victory and the high Latino vote he earned, makes reform difficult to stop. Even Republican John Boehner, the speaker of the House, and conservative talkshow host Sean Hannity, now [...]

by Sandra Lilley, @sandralilley 5:45 pm on 11/20/2012 Giovanni Diaz, a Dreamer from Georgia, and Victor Perez, a Dreamer from Alabama, were among a group of young undocumented immigrants who traveled to protest in front of Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s offices, asking for his resignation as well as a stop to his work drafting immigration laws such as Arizona’s SB1070 and Alabama’s HB 56.  The Dreamers are also calling for Kobach to drop a lawsuit against President Obama’s deferred action policy. “We want to deliver a message  - stop the hate and discrimination he [Kobach] has been disseminating,” said [...]

By: Matt O'Brien San Jose Mercury News The force field protecting Jirayut Latthivongskorn comes from a glossy, federally issued work permit that wards off deportation and lets him get a job, overcoming the legal barriers that have long clouded his ambitions and shadowed his life. Mailed to homes in fast-growing numbers, the cards are changing the lives of about 300,000 young immigrants, a quarter of them from California, who took a leap of faith this fall by revealing their presence to the U.S. government. Latthivongskorn's plastic card, with its 2014 expiration date etched between his fingerprint and photograph, symbolizes what he [...]