South Bend mayor and Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg gave a brief interview with Univision on Wednesday. Buttigieg took the opportunity during the interview to criticize the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance immigration policy, which resulted in the separation of thousands of children from their parents at the border. He has been an outspoken critic of President…
There are many things politically happening these days and our communities have been divided by political maneuvering and shameful tactics. I think that everyone can agree on one thing about politics: we need more transparency, honesty and consistency. I am an immigrant. I work full-time on the west side of South Bend serving our current…
Immigration rights groups are slamming the ruling by a federal judge in Texas who has ordered a preliminary injunction against a set of immigration policy changes put forth by the Obama administration in an executive order last year. In a ruling handed down late Monday, Judge Andrew Hanen of the U.S. District Court in Brownsville,…
President Barack Obama’s long awaited executive action on immigration was unveiled Thursday night. Local immigrant rights activists cheered the decision to extend relief to an estimated 4 million undocumented immigrants. The actions will defer deportation for immigrants who have been in the US for more than five years and have children who are either US…
President Barack Obama unveiled a bold plan yesterday that would provide protection from deportation for up to four million undocumented immigrants, while promising to step up efforts to curtail illegal entry at the border and prioritize the deportation of felons. While immigrant rights groups cheered the president’s executive actions, which he promised to take earlier…
President Barack Obama delivered a prime time speech on the nation’s immigration system tonight. The president outlined his plan to provide relief for undocumented immigrants. We have the full text of the speech below: My fellow Americans, tonight, I’d like to talk with you about immigration. For more than 200 years, our tradition of welcoming…
President Obama signaled on Wednesday that he will stick to his word when he said earlier this year that he would address immigration through executive action. The president maintains that he would prefer a legislative option but that he has promised the American people that he will sign an executive order to address the issue…
Undocumented workers are not eligible to receive Social Security benefits, but a new report shows that they paid over $100 billion into the program over the past decade. Unauthorized workers are paying an estimated $13 billion a year in Social Security taxes and only getting around $1 billion back, according to a senior government statistician….
Indiana Governor Mike Pence sent an open letter to President Obama last week, demanding the immediate deportation of children seeking refugee status in the United States. The Department of Health and Human Services has placed over 200 of these children with sponsors in Indiana. Pence complains that HHS did not notify his office and that…
The crisis on the border has renewed debate over immigration policy. Should the government treat as refugees the children fleeing to the United States from their violent Central American homeland — or should they be returned home? For its part, the White House went on record today saying that they would not deport youth if…
