Federal Court Enjoins SB 1070, Arizona’s Immigration Law
U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton today issued a decision that blocked several key sections of Arizona’s anti-immigration statute, SB 1070. In issuing the order, Judge Bolton found that that “[t]here is a substantial likelihood that officers will wrongfully arrest legal…
Psychologist says implicit bias will lead to racial profiling under AZ immigration law
In an interview last month with the American Psychological Association, Yale social psychologist John Dovidio concludes that SB 1070, Arizona’s new immigration law permitting law enforcement officers to question people about their immigration status if there is reason to suspect…
Arizona Enacts Stringent Law on Immigration
Now that the heated battles over the comprehensive health care reform are fading from the public consciousness the new issue of immigration reform that has been simmering on the back burner has boiled over with Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signing…
New Report on the Economics of Immigration Reform
This month, the Center for American Progress and the Immigration Policy Center published a report analyzing the economic impact of immigration reform on the gross domestic product (GDP) in the United States. The author of the report, Dr. Raul Hinojosa-Ojeda,…
African Americans and immigration
The Opportunity Agenda recently posted on its website Talking Points: African Americans and Immigration, a communications tool developed for outreach and dialogue with African-American groups and audiences on the issue of immigration policy. Several of the findings in the piece…
U.S. Deportee Brings Street Dance to Street Boys of Cambodia
In the wake of September 11, the U.S. Federal government went through a systematic deportation of many Cambodian Americans. Most of them came to the United States as refugees when they were young children. They had lived almost their entire…
