The Las Vegas Review-Journal has reported that in 2010 there has been an 80% increase in the backlog of cases at the Las Vegas Immigration Court. In President Bush’s last year in office (2008) there were 1,028 backlogged cases in Las Vegas. In President Obama’s second year in office the number of backlogged cases at […]
Obama Administration Deports more Immigrants in year two than in year one.
The Washington Post has reported that the Obama Administration has deported 392,000 immigrants during the fiscal year that ended on September 30th. This exceeds the 389,834 immigrants deported by the Obama Administration in the previous fiscal year. Despite falling 8,000 immigrants short of their 400,000 deportation goal, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano touted their "achievement" […]
Who murdered 72 immigrants in the US-Mexican border area?
Seventy-two dead bodies (58 men + 14 women) were discovered near the US-Mexico border on 24 August. The source reports that the victims were identified mainly as undocumented immigrants from El Salvador, Honduras, Ecuador and Brazil. Mexican security forces claim that a smuggling gang murdered them after having kidnapped them. The Mexican Security Forces has […]
President Obama has been too busy deporting immigrants to address immigration reform
The first eighteen months of the Obama Presidency have come and gone, and the President has yet to address immigration reform. That being said, the President has assured us that he WILL address immigration reform. Not now, but soon. So we should all just be patient. Our time will come. Not now, but soon. What […]
Young Immigrants Walking for a DREAM
By Frances Correa Capital News Service RICHMOND, Va. – Felipe Matos has been called many names, including “criminal,” “alien” and “not quite human.” All those descriptions come from the fact that he fits under the category of “undocumented immigrant.” Matos and many others were brought to the United States as children by parents who didn’t […]
Mentally Ill Immigrants Taken Directly from Hospitals without their Medication and Deported
Nina Bernstein of the New York Times has reported that a public interest law center (Texas Appleseed), and a corporate law firm (Akin Gump) have compiled an 88-page report that examines the way the mentally incompetent are treated when they are taken into custody by ICE in New York or other Northern Cities. These immigrants […]
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