Finessing the Immigrant Crackdown

Like Michael Chertoff, her predecessor as chief of the Department of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano doesn’t have the power to change im...

A Homeland Security Colony

Dee Torres sees history in the making in the West Texas borderlands. The elementary school teacher wants to be part of the history of the bo...

Border Boom Times at Ft. Hancock

Ft. Hancock is not a typical boom town. Not the typical town at all. In fact, it isn’t really a town, merely a census designated place (CD...

The Newly Fortified Ft. Hancock

(This is the first in a series of reports on the Texas-New Mexico-Chihuahua borderlands.) The river runs slow and shallow through the Chihua...

Brown Can Stick Around in Nashville

“ Nashville listened to its leaders — the governor, the mayor, and a vast coalition of churches, businesses and universities — and defeated...

The New Political Economy of Immigration

(Here's an excerpt from my article published in the current issue of Dollars & Sense .) Since Sept. 11, 2001 immigrants have become ...

Obama's Immigration Challenge -- More About Words Than Policy

(Border Lines CIR Series #16)  President Barack Obama could quickly go a long way toward resolving the immigration policy crisis. But it’s n...

The "More Effective Political Approach" for Immigration Reform

(15th in Border Lines series on Movement for Comprehensive Immigration Reform.) Read Entire Article. How is the immigration reform movement ...

Strategic Pause for Immigration Reform?

(Fourteenth in a Border Lines series on Movement for Comprehensive Immigration Reform.) Isn’t it past time for a pause? We certainly need a...

Reasons for Immigration Reform's Failure

(Thirteenth in Border Lines series on Movement for Comprehensive Immigration Reform.) Liberal immigration reform failed in the Bush administ...

Pro-Immigrant Principles of Comprehensive Reform

(Twelfth in Border Lines series on Movement for Comprehensive Immigration Reform.) Comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) is once again the ...

Immigration Change Some Can Believe In

(Eleventh in Border Lines series on the Movement for Comprehensive Immigration Reform.)   The leaders of the immigrant-rights movement are o...

Rebuilding the Immigrant-Rights Movement with More Money, But the Same Message

(Tenth in Border Lines series on the Movement for Comprehensive Immigration Reform.) Summarizing the fate of the Coalition for Comprehensive...

Excited About Coalition's United Front Strategy

(Ninth in Border Lines series on the Movement for Comprehensive Immigration Reform.) The coalition and its organizers adopted a “united fro...