Oscar Brun / Guest Columnist
With the resurgence of the anti-immigration sentiment, the accusations, critiques and threats have proliferated alarmingly. Continue reading
Stockton, CA / Bilingual Weekly
On Wednesday, January 5, 2011, the group State Legislators for Legal Immigration (SLLI), led by their founder, Pennsylvania Congressman Daryl Metcalfe, called a press conference on the first day of the 112th Congress in session at the National Press Club in Washington DC.. In it, SLLI members announced two measures they plan on introducing in State Legislatures around the country that, in essence, re-interpret the 14th Amendment to the Constitution that grants automatic U.S. citizenship to all children born on U.S. soil. Continue reading
With the MidTerm Elections over the Tea Party has switched from candidate-bashing to ridding the state of undocumented workers. Tea Party activist Michael Erickson, a Belmont, CA resident, has filed an initiative proposal very similar to Arizona’s SB 1070 —entitled “Support Federal Immigration Law Act”— to be included on the 2012 Election ballot. Continue reading