The owners of Blair Place Apartments in Jackson Hole, Wyoming recently enacted a new policy that has many residents upset: tenants must now provide proof of citizenship or legal status before they can renew their lease: The policy initially led some to raise concerns about discrimination, but because the landlords apply the policy to all tenants […]
Wyoming apartment complex requiring proof of citizenship for tenants
High school immigration assignment faces backlash
An immigration assignment at Erwin High School in Asheville, N.C. has drawn the ire of many after images of the assignment — including posters depicting negative comments directed toward illegal aliens — went viral on social media. Brian Gonzales, chair of the social studies department at the high school, told local ABC affiliate News 13 […]
Jeb Bush blasts Trump on immigration
Miami, Sep 1 (EFE).- Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush said Tuesday that if he becomes president he will propose a path to legalization for undocumented migrants, especially the ones brought to the United States as children, and he distanced himself from the harsh radical line on immigration taken by magnate Donald Trump. “What he (Trump) […]
Jeb Bush: Those attacking immigration stance should ‘chill out’
By George Bennett, The Palm Beach Post, Fla. Sept. 01– MIAMI — Jeb Bush slammed Donald Trump on Tuesday as a counterfeit conservative with unworkable immigration views and said Hillary Clinton should “chill out” after criticizing his use of the term “anchor babies.” A day after Republican presidential front runner Trump’s campaign released a video […]
CBP supervisor’s wife arrested in immigrant smuggling case
By Daniel Borunda, El Paso Times, Texas The wife of a former U.S. Customs and Border Protection supervisor was arrested Wednesday on charges of conspiring with her husband to smuggle undocumented immigrants, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Thursday. Supervisory CBP Officer Lawrence Madrid, 53, his wife, Odet Madrid Corchado, 38, and Maria Guadalupe Jaime-Hernandez, 45, […]
Naples Daily News, Fla., Brent Batten column
By Brent Batten, Naples Daily News, Fla. And subject to the jurisdiction thereof. Six words you probably haven’t thought about since high school civics class, if then. But they’re roaring into the national consciousness as the debate about illegal immigration intensifies in and out of the Republican presidential campaign. A new study on immigration demonstrates […]