One year ago, thousands of young undocumented immigrants across the country started lining up for a program that would allow them stay in the country legally — a program President Obama enacted administratively in the absence of congressional action. Since then, more than 500,000 people have applied Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)…
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and other members of California’s Democratic congressional delegation urged Gov. Jerry Brown in a letter this week to sign state legislation to prevent local police from detaining people based on their immigration status unless they have been convicted of a felony or serious crime. The letter, signed by 28…
Gov. Jerry Brown got a letter from 28 California House Democrats this week urging him to sign the TRUST Act, medical which would limit how the state’s law enforcement officers cooperate with federal immigration efforts. The lawmakers – including all but two of the Bay Area’s House members – wrote that the bill “sets clear, uniform standards to limit burden…
Twenty-eight of California’s congressional representatives are throwing their weight behind state legislation that would make it harder to deport immigrants who are in the country illegally. The representatives — all Democrats, including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco — sent a letter to Gov. Jerry Brown urging him to sign…
The longest and costliest strike in the history of the steel industry hit the United States economy in 1959. Across the nation, the steel industry banked its furnaces, turned off the vital flow of steel, and many of the nation’s auto plants closed down in a few months with their supply of steel used up. Gone are the good old days of strikes
Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) has stayed relatively quiet on immigration reform since the Senate bill passed in July, but today he told a Florida television station that Congress must pass legislation that would overhaul the nation’s immigration policies or tempt the President to do something on his own. Rubio is warning Congress that if a c…
In a move pressed by the New Orleans City Council and prodded by a lawsuit from two men who were held behind bars on immigration holds months after their legal release dates, Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman will no longer accept such requests by federal officials unless inmates are also charged with major violent offenses. Immigrant advocates…
I believe that this president tempted, will be tempted, if nothing happens in Congress, to issue an executive order as he did for the Dream Act kids a year ago, where he basically legalizes 11 million people by the sign of a pen,” Rubio told WFLA’s “The Morning Show with Preston Scott." "Now we won’t get any E-Verify, we won’t get a…
Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio warned Tuesday that if Congress doesn’t pass immigration overhaul legislation, President Barack Obama may act on his own to legalize the 11 million immigrants already in the U.S. illegally. Rubio, a potential presidential candidate and an author of the sweeping immigration bill that passed the Senate in June but…