Democratic Rep. John Delaney and Republican Sen. Ron Johnson agree that highly-skilled immigrants are valuable to the U.S. economy—they just disagree on what to do about it. As Delaney put it: Democrats prioritize finding a path to legalization for undocumented immigrants while Republicans want to first focus on securing the […]
Author: Foster
DENVER — For weeks, Fernando Gonzalez stayed up until 3 a.m., reloading a state government web page to snag a scarce appointment for his wife, Mara, to get her driver’s license. They came here illegally from Mexico nine years ago, and they are among the hundreds of thousands queuing up […]
Nebraska is the last state to allow undocumented youth to get driver’s licenses
1 Jun
by Foster, on News
More than 2,700 young undocumented immigrants in Nebraska now have the right to apply for driver’s licenses. The Nebraska legislature overrode a veto by Gov. Pete Ricketts on Thursday to pass a bill ending the state’s ban on licenses for DREAMers. Nebraska is the last state in the country to […]
In denying to hear an appeal from Arizona Sheriff Joseph Arpaio, the Supreme Court on Monday left in place a lower court’s decision to strike down a state immigration law. In October, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit struck down a law Arizona voters had passed in […]