I just read on Prerna Lal’s blog that another DREAMer is falling victim to President Obama’s 400,000 per year deportation machine. Jonathan Chavez came to the United States legally when he was a child as a derivative to his parents’ working visas.   He grew up in Arkansas and graduated from high school with a 4.0 average, singing solos in his […]

What do you want to hear first, the good news or the bad news? Here’s the good news: the Obama administration may not have broken its own deportation record last fiscal year.  The bad news is that 392,862 people were deported by the administration over an approximate 12 month period. What is now at issue […]

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has issued a pair of press releases announcing the deaths of two immigrants in immigration detention. The first individual, Antonio Gomez-Hernandez, was a 66-year-old Mexican national.  Mr. Gomez-Hernandez died on November 5, 2010 at a Chicago area hospital from liver failure.  He had been in ICE custody since October 14, […]

Latinos came out to vote in this election, and the end result was that they flexed their muscles backing winners in both parties. Latinos are being credited with keeping the Senate in the hands of the Democrats by backing Harry Reid in Nevada, Barbara Boxer in California, and Micheal Bennet in Colorado. That being said, […]