New Law Forcing State Employees to Report Undocumented Immigrants Causes Fear in Arizona
Arizona starts enforcing a new law aimed at denying public benefits to undocumented migrants.
Tag: State immigration policies
Guest Editorial: Secure Communities Turns Immigrants into Criminals
This month the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) celebrated one year of Secure Communities, a program dangerously misnamed since it actually endangers rather than improves community security.
Supreme Court Asks White House to Take a Stance on State Immigration Laws
The U.S. Supreme Court wants the Obama administration to offer its opinion on state immigration laws, an issue that the White House has largely tried to avoid. The high court asked the White House on Monday for an opinion in…
Reporter's Notebook: Behind the Headlines About Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Immigration Sweeps
This week the public radio program Making Contact features a story by Feet in Two Worlds reporter Valeria Fernández about the impact of an immigration raid on a family in Phoenix, Arizona. Valeria wrote the following reporter’s notebook about her…
Reporter’s Notebook: Finding Common Ground on Immigration in Arizona’s Dairy Farms
Phoenix-based FI2W reporter Valeria Fernández produced a radio piece for NPR’s Latino USA on immigrants who work in the dairy industry and the farmers who hire them. Here, Valeria narrates how she produced the piece, which airs this weekend on…
Religious Leaders Face Deportation: Detention Reignites Churches' Call for Immigration Reform
PHOENIX, Arizona — A group of eight religious leaders of the Disciples of Christ denomination in Phoenix are facing deportation after being detained by a tribal police department when they were on their way to a spiritual retreat. The incident…
New Jersey Attorney General Warns Police Against Profiling Immigrants Under 287(g) Program
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security recently announced the addition two New Jersey police departments to the highly-controversial program known as 287(g), which deputizes local officers to enforce federal immigration laws. Now the state’s Attorney General Anne Milgram is warning…
Drama About Immigration Raids and their Human Consequences in Arizona Is No Fiction for Many
PHOENIX, Arizona — When the school counselor gave her the news, it broke Olivia’s heart. Her father had been detained by deputies from the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. In the worst case scenario, he might have already been deported. Olivia…
New York Immigrant Advocates Launch Campaign to End ICE’s Presence in Local Jails
By Maibe Gonzalez Fuentes, FI2W contributor Saidah Mohammed, an 18-year-old from Brooklyn, New York, hasn’t seen her boyfriend, Jaun Pierre, for over a year. He’s being detained while he awaits deportation to his native Jamaica, an island he hasn’t visited…
Connecticut City Joins 287 (g) Agreement with ICE, Promises to Pursue Only Criminal Immigrants
Billed by a Latino newspaper as “one of the most controversial measures enacted by the city’s Common Council”, an agreement between Danbury, Conn., and the Department of Homeland Security for that municipality to join the criticized 287 (g) program is…