Tag: Illegal Immigrants
Arizona continues to net illegal workers, not illegal employers
The country's self-styled "toughest sheriff" made more news in Arizona the week after the midterm elections. As Stateline reports, Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio...
Vital undocumented workers victims of wage theft, shifting laws
Jacinta Gonzalez, an organizer with the Congress of Day Laborers in New Orleans, tells a story about the abuse of workers rebuilding the city after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. She once met a man who went to his employer’s house to demand payment for his labor on a construction site after the employer stiffed him of his dues. The man’s boss came at him, swinging a hammer. The worker immediately called the police.
Tancredo’s sanctuary city claims simply don’t stand up to closer scrutiny
Is Denver a sanctuary city? American Constitution Party candidate for governor Tom Tancredo says it is. Democratic nominee and Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper says it is not. When asked for the basis of his claims, Tancredo spokesman Leo Jankowski said Denver Executive Order 116, signed by Mayor Wellington Webb in 1998, makes Denver a sanctuary city.
How reconciliation irons out the House and Senate health bills
Democratic leaders pushing health care reform this year like to argue that a vast majority of the proposals represent uncontroversial changes backed by most Capitol Hill lawmakers. And while that might be true, it hasn’t prevented some sharp disagreements between House and Senate Democrats over a handful of high-profile reform provisions.
Tancredo as Tea Party weather vane
Tom Tancredo is a firebrand. He is a darling of the grassroots Colorado right. He also may be a 2010 national politics weather vane....
Miklosi to postpone illegal immigrant in-state tuition bill
State Rep. Joe Miklosi, D-Denver, told the Denver Post that he will wait another year to introduce legislation to offer in-state tuition to illegal...
But can’t the non-citizens work in the uranium mill?
The same Montrose County board of commissioners that recently kicked off a uranium mill hearing with the Pledge of Allegiance and then stood on...
Here They Come: Tea Parties Against ‘Amnesty’
The immigration restrictionist group Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC) said it’s flooding Twitter, Facebook and MySpace, and planning another round of Tea Parties,...
Protester: Send illegal aliens home ‘with a bullet in the head’
Fresh off the polarizing campaign against the nomination of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, which saw GOP figures like Tom Tancredo accusing the judge...
Denial of In-state Tuition Costs Immigrants’ Children Dearly
Metro State College professor Luis Torres uses one word to describe his school’s decision to charge out-of-state tuition to U.S. citizens and Colorado residents...