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Immigration Inching Towards Reform One Year After Postville Raids

May 12, 2008, marks the one-year anniversary of the immigration raid in Postville, Iowa, where Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)conducted the largest workplace immigration raid in U.S. history. The raid symbolizes the failed enforcement-only policies of the Bush administration and serves as yet another grim reminder of the desperate need for fair and comprehensive immigration reform. Read more at ImmigrationImpact.com. (May 12, 2009)

Anti-Immigrant �Advocates of Extremist Views� Raise National Criticism, International Concern

This week, a San Francisco Chronicle editorial holds talk-show host Michael Savage, along with his colleagues Lou Dobbs and Jay Severin, accountable for the consequences of their anti-immigrant remarks. While Savage might not consider himself a threat to public safety, he underestimates the violent effect that his vitriolic anti-immigrant rhetoric has had in his own country. Read more at ImmigrationImpact.com. (May 11, 2009)

Sheriff Joe Arpaio to Recruit and Arm Citizens, Neo-Nazis "Have His Back"

Rather than cleaning up his police department and addressing allegations of racial profiling and discrimination, Arpaio has decided to recruit and arm more Maricopa citizens in the absence of state funds. Read more at ImmigrationImpact.com. (May 8, 2009)

Obama Budget Not a Replacement for Comprehensive Immigration Reform

While Obama's budget changes are welcome, they're still just fiddling along the edges of a real solution. Comprehensive immigration reform is the only real way to fix the problem. Read more at ImmigrationImpact.com. (May 7, 2009)

Jury Member, Witness, Legal Experts Condemn Pennsylvania Hate Crime Verdict

Last week, in the small town of Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, an all-white jury acquitted defendants Derrick Donchak, 19, and Brandon Piekarsky, 17, of aggravated assault, reckless endangerment, and ethnic intimidation in the death of Mexican immigrant Luis Ramirez last July. Read more at ImmigrationImpact.com. (May 6, 2009)

Supreme Court Overrules Government Tactics to Criminalize Immigrant Workers

The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that federal identity-theft law can not be applied against many undocumented workers who used false Social Security numbers to work in the U.S. Read more at ImmigrationImpact.com. (May 5, 2009)

Hard-Line Immigration Laws Take a Back Seat in Tennessee

When it comes to immigration in Tennessee, state legislators are starting to realize that not only do they have bigger fish to fry, immigration is a fish that's better left swimming in federal waters. Read more at ImmigrationImpact.com. (May 4, 2009)