Opinion

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Video: DREAMers go to Navy Pier for “deportation relief”

Navy Pier transformed into New York's Ellis Island. Instead of seeing the Statue of Liberty welcome them, immigrant families saw the Chicago skyline.

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Immigration nation

Who could be more anti-American than those who seek to keep undocumented immigrants away from the fruits of equality fought for by generations of Americans?

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Arizona needs a movement to repeal SB 1070

Monday's Supreme Court decision on Arizona's anti-immigrant SB 1070 has engendered lots of commentary in the media and among elected officials.

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After Arizona

The ruling sends a signal to the right wing and lawmakers in Arizona, Alabama and elsewhere that state laws, recently put on the books for racist and political reasons across this country, are unconstitutional.

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Alabama's racism

Alabama approved the racist, anti-immigrant, anti-Hispanic law HB56. The law, passed by the GOP legislature and pushed through by the GOP governor, cries out for a nationwide counterattack.

GOP's empty rhetoric on Obama's immigration record

A record 400,000 people are being deported each year under Obama, who took a minor step to protect immigrants. Now Republicans are accusing him of treason.

 

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Environmental assault disguised as border security

How does waiving the Endangered Species Act in Glacier National Park help secure the border?

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Alabama is no "sweet home"

The terror of immigration enforcement is now in effect in the Alabama classroom, and it's traumatizing the most vulnerable members of our society, our children.

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Columbus Day questions

On this Columbus Day, let's consider the discrepancy between how newcomers are celebrated in our history but ostracized in our society.

 

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MIA: Obama's new common-sense immigration policy

I learned the hard way that Immigration and Customs Enforcement field offices are actually becoming even more ruthless than before.

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