Illegal Immigration and Deportation

Addicted to Fame Squeezes One Last Buck From Anna Nicole

Shame On Demand

Animal Rights Activists Exploit "Illegals" in Central Park Horse-Carriage War

As we've chronicled, there is a war going on between the labor union that represents Central Park horse-carriage drivers and animal rights activists who think keeping horses in midtown Manhattan is dangerous and inhumane.Now the activists are using illegal immigrants as PR ammo against the union.The ... More >>

Outside the Democratic Convention: Labor Rallies, Protests, and the "Undocubus"

Picking up press credentials at the Charlotte Convention Center yesterday, it was clear from the mob of journalists swarming the scene -- organizers estimate 15,000 -- that the scripted spectacle playing out inside the Democratic National Convention will be exhaustively covered. But there's plenty ... More >>

Why Not Allow These Mexican Kids to Live Here?

Rutgers Spy-Cam Creep Dharun Ravi Won't Be Deported -- Which Is Bullshit

Despite having bullied a gay college freshman into committing suicide, Rutgers spy-cam creep Dharun Ravi won't be deported, immigration officials say.That, of course, is bullshit -- especially when you consider some of the other people (who didn't directly cause someone to kill himself) whom the fed ... More >>

Texas Congressman Thinks Children "Have A Say" In Whether They Cross Border Illegally (Sigh)

President Barack Obama announced last week his plan to no longer deport children who were brought into the country illegally by their parents in a policy shift that the far-right is calling "backdoor amnesty."The spirit of the president's new policy is to not punish the roughly 800,000 undocumented ... More >>

Rightbloggers: Obama's Immigration Order is Tyranny, and the White House Heckler's a Hero

Last week President Obama, tired of waiting for Congress to pass the DREAM Act, sort of enacted DREAM Lite himself, temporarily allowing young illegal immigrants who'd come here as kids off the deportation hook. Mainstream conservative reaction ranged from discomfiture -- because Republicans had be ... More >>

New York Assembly Passes Bill To Establish DREAM Fund For Undocumented Kids To Go To College

Good news, DREAMers: the New York State Assembly passed a bill yesterday that would create a privately funded scholarship to help undocumented kids go to college.If it becomes law, the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors, or DREAM, Fund Commission would enable people to solicit privat ... More >>

Should SCOTUS Justices Use The Word 'Alien' In Considering How Arizona's Immigration Law Impacts Citizens?

There were two notable things that jumped out at us yesterday as the Obama administration challenged Arizona's controversial immigration law SB 1070 before the Supreme Court. First of all, who the hell in the Obama administration let Solicitor General Donald Verrilli anywhere near the Supreme Cour ... More >>

New York AG Chimes In On Arizona's Breathing While Brown Immigration Law

The constitutionality of Arizona's controversial immigration law currently is being reviewed by the United States Supreme Court -- and for some reason New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman decided to chime in in the form of a friend-of-the-court brief filed with the SCOTUS this morning.If you' ... More >>

AG Eric Schneiderman Will "Never Ask Your Immigration Status" In Employment Beefs

​If you're an illegal immigrant working in New York, you've got a friend in a pretty high place: the New York Attorney General's Office.Attorney General Eric Schneiderman penned an op-ed yesterday, in which he vows to "never ask your immigration status, or share immigration information with federa ... More >>

Illegal Immigration: The Soap Opera, in A Better Life

Special April Fools' Edicion

Starring know-nothing ex-rep Tom Tancredo

Return to Sender

What would comprehensive immigration reform look like if the feds got off their duffs?

The Feds Bury Border Patrol Abuses of Immigrants, But What's Been Unearthed Reveals a Culture of Cruelty

FAIR-y Tales

Sidebar: Mexican Macro-Economics

Sidebar: Whose Dole Is It Anyway?

Grinding Justice

Operation Streamline Costs Millions, Tramples the Constitution, Treats Migrants Like Cattle, and Doesn't Work

Morning Links: Carl Paladino to Make "Major" TV Announcement; Lou Dobbs' Illegal Immigrant Trouble; Verizon iPhone Update

​• New York gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino has bought a block of TV time with the three network affiliates in Buffalo and is expected to make a "major" announcement today at 5:13 p.m. Don't bet that he's dropping out. But is he still angry?[NYDN] • The stream of red, toxic sludge f ... More >>

Pinalcchio: Renowned Forensics Experts Say a Pinal County Deputy's High-Profile Tale About Getting Shot After Encountering Drug Smugglers Doesn't Add Up

Inside the Brutal World of America's Kidnapping Capital

Ronnie's Kids: The Bright Side of "Amnesty"

So what happened to the immigrants given a fresh start by Reagan in 1986?

Mystery 12th Spy Emerges in Russia Spy Case; Anna Chapman Wants to Sell Her Story

​Today in spy news, get this: There's another, previously unheard of spy in the mix! A 12th spy! As Tom Robbins pointed out, "The Third Man" is so the right soundtrack for this whole fiasco. The new spy is 23, which means the chances of him being hot are, well, pretty good. Youth is attractive ... More >>

An Immigrant's Heart

To survive the ordeal of escaping Guatemala, Julia needed a big Heart. But not this big.

Andy Cuomo and the Anti-Immigrant Pol Who Seconded His Nomination for Governor

Kathy HochulAndrew Cuomo missed an opportunity to name a minority running mate at the recent Democratic convention. He was so conscious of the state's first all-white Democratic ticket in 20 years that he asked Bill Thompson, the black former city comptroller, to nominate him and Vivian Viloria-Fish ... More >>

The Life and Death of a Murdered Arizona Rancher

Rob Krentz's family speaks

Badlands: From Ground Zero of the Immigration Crisis Along the Mexican Border

Rick Lazio: Memo Shows Intent to Demonize Immigrants For Votes

​By Scott Greenberg and Alana Horowitz Hillary Clinton ran an ad in 2000 that accused Rick Lazio as being the "wolf that passes for Little Red Riding Hood" in a wrangle over Latino votes. Turns out she was right. The Voice uncovered an internal memo from gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio' ... More >>

Worst Halloween Costumes in the news: Illegal Alien

​Target has taken down an "illegal alien" costume from their website after "several complaints," including one from the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, which called it "distasteful, mean-spirited, and ignorant of social stigmas and current debate on immigration reform." ... More >>

!Ask a Mexican! Know Nothings Take Over

Loving the legal, hating the illegal

Who Built Rudy's House in the Hamptons?

Giuliani's contractor might not have had a 'hire standard' on illegal labor

Giuliani's Immigration Problem

Much as he hates to admit it, Rudy loved (most of) those huddled masses

Lou Dobbs Needs a Check-Up

The pendejo and his refrain about hospitals

'This Is the Time to Rise'

Immigrants march, plan May 1 strike

The Bush Doctrine: 'No Illegal Alien Left Behind'

A counter-rally in Dallas sends a different message on immigration reform

The Few, the Proud, the Guilty

Marines recruiter convicted of providing fake documents to enlist illegal aliens

We Are All New Yorkers

Bush makes war on the city's immigrant neighborhoods

Dearly Deported

U.S. is ousting a retiree too ill to travel

Gang Planks

Pols Push Tougher Policing for City's Gang Problem

Going to Held

Detention Nightmare: Immigrant Agrees to Deportation, but Government Snafus Intervene

Language Lockout

For Immigrants, Hard Work Yields Few Benefits

Orange County Anguish

Searching for Someone, Anyone, Who Loves Governor Gray Davis

Fighting the Tide

Claiming Special Circumstances, a Family Battles Deportation

Key Interceptions

INS Selects a Least Valuable Squad of Workers

Detainees Equal Dollars

The Rise in Immigrant Incarcerations drives a prison boom

Closing the Schoolhouse Door

Undocumented Immigrants Reel After CUNY Hikes Tuitions

Sending Back the Mexicans

Voices From Long Island’s Anti-Immigrant Conference

Get out, get out, wherever you are

Major Scandal

Aide to Brooklyn Congressman Owens is targeted in immigrant fraud scam