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Move Over Malkin-ites: Napolitano Gets Immigration Law Right

As the reactionary Michelle Malkins of the conservative blogosphere foam at the mouth over Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano's comment on CNN's John King's State of the Union about the "criminality" of crossing the border, Napolitano is busy with real work laying out five areas of focus for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Read more at ImmigrationImpact.com. (April 23, 2009)

College Board Unanimously Supports DREAM Act for Undocumented Students

Just as the Obama administration has signaled that they hope to tackle immigration reform in the coming months, the College Board's trustees unanimously voted to support the DREAM Act which would provide undocumented youths a path to citizenship through college or the military. Read more at ImmigrationImpact.com. (April 22, 2009)

Arizona's Sheriff Arpaio Puts Publicity Before Border Violence Hearing

Instead of attending a U.S. Senate hearing on border violence this week, America's "toughest sheriff" Joe Arpaio chose to appear on Stephen Colbert's comedy show, The Colbert Report, in New York City. Arpaio's appetite for publicity is so insatiable that it overrides any sense of duty, rationality, or morality. Read more at ImmigrationImpact.com. (April 21, 2009)

Low-Income Latinos and Immigrants Reported "Under Siege" in the South

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released a new report this week entitled "Under Siege: Life for Low-Income Latinos in the South" which adds to the mounting evidence pointing to the harmful impact that the absence of a functioning immigration system is having on Latinos and immigrant communities. Read more at ImmigrationImpact.com. (April 21, 2009)

Obama Reasserts Support of Immigration Reform at Summit of the Americas

This past weekend, at the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago, President Barack Obama reaffirmed his commitment to reforming the broken U.S. immigration system and creating a system that advances the economic and humanitarian interests of both sending and receiving nations. Read more at ImmigrationImpact.com. (April 20, 2009)

Obama Assures Mexican President of Committment to Immigration Reform

Following the White House's first press briefing in Spanish this week, President Obama met with Mexican President, Felipe Calderon, and emphasized the need for a comprehensive immigration strategy. Read more at ImmigrationImpact.com. (April 17, 2009)

California Ballot Initiative Seeks to Denigrate Immigrants' Infants at Birth

Anti-immigrant activists and former GOP state Senator Bill Morrow in California have decided that, rather than treat the children of immigrants as they would their own and invest in making them well-educated and acclimated adults, they'd rather launch a ballot initiative designed to make them second-class citizens. Read more at ImmigrationImpact.com. (April 17, 2009)