Richard Jones El Hispanic News Portland, OR — The first week of 2012 brought a shift in immigration policy that will help bring some families together by speeding up access to green cards to spouses of U.S. citizens. Alejandro Mayorkas, director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced “a regulatory change that would reduce [...]
Rich Cohen Guest opinion The unprecedented Occupy Movement has given the American people a voice for their grievances and for their hopes and in doing so now have that voice on our side. The power elites are becoming rattled and fighting back knowing that the moral force behind our cause is now taking root in [...]
Marjorie Valbrun America’s Wire Washington, D.C. — More than 5,000 children of immigrants are languishing in state foster care nationwide because their parents were living in the United States illegally and were detained or deported by federal immigration authorities. These children can spend years in foster homes, and some are put up for adoption after [...]
Washington, D.C. — Actor José Ferrer will be immortalized on a First-Class Forever Stamp in 2012 as the 14th luminary celebrated in the U.S. Postal Service’s Distinguished Americans series. Considered one of the most accomplished talents of his generation, Ferrer (1912-1992) won several Tony Awards for his work on stage and performed in more than [...]
Lorraine Cortes-Vázquez AARP It’s the beginning of a new year. A time for resolutions and fresh starts. Why not kick-off 2012 by getting your taxes out of the way? Plan to file early. Accountants may be the only ones looking forward to tax season. For the rest of us, filing sooner rather than later might [...]
Richard Jones El Hispanic News Portland, OR — With the United States facing the greatest number of crippling problems since the Great Depression, identifying the most urgent ones becomes a matter of perspective. During a 30-minute interview in late October, Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., sat down in his 14th-floor suite in Portland to discuss [...]
Richard Jones El Hispanic News Writers Portland, OR — Opposition to the proposed Legal Workforce Act — better known as the E-Verify bill — brought a wide range of speakers to meetings in Portland and Wilsonville in September. “There are few things that can bring employers and workers together,†said Jeff Stone in Portland. “E-Verify [...]
Richard Jones El Hispanic News Portland, OR — On June 17, 2011, John Morton, director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) signed a memorandum titled “Exercising Prosecutorial Discretion Consistent with the Civil Immigration Enforcement Priorities of the Agency for the Apprehension, Detention and Removal of Aliens.†The six-page document remained largely out of public [...]
Richard Jones El Hispanic News Woodburn, OR — A ball of fire swept through the Woodburn High School gym the evening of Monday, June 26. That fire ignited the passions of more than 500 Latinos. The fireball was Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D.-Ill.) and his fuel was President Barack Obama’s failure to produce an immigration reform [...]
