immigration

First Person:
By Alberto Ledesma
New America Media

    Sofia and I had been making that turn since we had moved to Castro Valley. In those five years, the protesters at the corner of Castro Valley Boulevard and Redwood Road had become a constant example of the way politics worked in the United States. Each time, after I picked her up from abuelita’s house, we waited for the light to turn while she stared at the protesters.

<p><strong>New America Media</strong></p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Gov. Jan Brewer plans to petition the U.S. Supreme Court to lift a federal court’s preliminary injunction that blocked major portions of a controversial state immigration law from going into effect. But whether the nation’s highest tribunal will consider ruling on SB 1070 is a whole other story, according to legal experts.</p>

Commentary:
By: Jose Apolinar Olivera

   Few issues spark as much anger and propaganda as the issue of immigration reform. Unlike many other issues, views on immigration reform do not fall neatly into party lines or even racial lines.

   Regardless of one’s view on the issue, we can agree that the debate around immigration reform should be based on fact, not fiction.

<p><strong>Frontera NorteSur</strong></p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Five years ago, hundreds of thousands and perhaps millions of people marched in big cities and small towns across the US demanding justice for the nation’s estimated 12 million undocumented residents. Hitting a high point with work stoppages on May Day 2006, the pro-immigrant protest was the largest social movement in the US since the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War years.</p>