By Christina Marie Duran Borderzine EL PASO — The U.S. government started Operation Streamline a “zero-tolerance” border enforcement strategy, at the Del Rio sector in Texas in 2005 in an attempt to stem the flow of millions of undocumented Mexicans who leave their families and homes every year to cross the border into the U.S. [...]
Immigration issue lends itself to political posturing from all sides
LatinaLista — Altogether there are six legal challenges to Arizona’s SB 1070. A federal judge announced today that the hearing date for the federal government’s suit against Arizona will take place July 22 – seven days before SB1070 is to go into effect. Critics of the federal lawsuit pretty much agree on the same thing — [...]
GOP should take a cue from Lou Dobbs and resign their attack strategy on illegal immigration
LatinaLista — Since news spread of Dobbs’ resignation from CNN, Latina Lista has received our fair share of comments and e-mails railing against Dobbs’ departure. Each of the commenters see the situation as unjust and forcing a man out of his job for “telling the truth.” What they fail to see is that Dobbs’ version of [...]
Is the Department of Homeland Security going after the wrong “criminal aliens?”
LatinaLista — One of the hopes the Latino electorate had of the Obama administration was that Obama would do away with the punitive measures of illegal immigration enforcement started during the Bush years. One of the most egregious tactics for detaining and deporting undocumented immigrants is the use by local law enforcement of what is [...]
Department of Homeland Security should revoke the 287(g) program until there is immigration reform
LatinaLista — Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is not a happy camper these days. It seems the federal government has had enough of the complaints lobbed against Arpaio’s use of the government’s 287(g) program, which authorizes local law enforcement to enforce immigration policy. With his infamous “immigration sweep” operations, Arpaio has been accused of abusing [...]
Guest Voz: Invitation from Guatemalan Human Rights Commission shows 2nd-generation Latina what happened to Postville deportees
By Cynthia Mazariegos LatinaLista — Second-generation Guatemalan-American, Cynthia Mazariegos, dreams of becoming a lawyer one day and championing justice for immigrants as an immigration attorney. Her dreams are fueled by the ongoing debate in the United States over comprehensive immigration reform and witnessing how hard-working, undocumented immigrants have been caught in the middle of this [...]
