Angela Kelley, vice president for immigration policy and advocacy at the Center for American Progress, said Monday that the issue of immigration will continue to heat up because of the growing Hispanic population and because the American economy will need foreign workers again in the future. (0:22)
Angela Kelley, the vice president of immigration policy and advocacy at the Center for American Progress, reacted to the news that the Supreme Court will be ruling on the Arizona immigration law, explaining that having 50 state immigration laws is as unsustainable as having 50 state currencies. (0:22)
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) expressed concern over ICE’s Secure Communities program deporting undocumented immigrants who have otherwise committed no crimes during a House Judiciary Committee, Immigration Subcommittee hearing Wednesday.(0:29)
Gary Mead, ICE Executive Associate Director of Enforcement and Removal Operations, defended ICE’s Secure Communities Initiative in front of the House Judiciary Committee, Immigration Subcommittee Wednesady calling it “smart, effective immigration enforcement.” (0:13)
Arturo Venegas - a retired police chief and immigrant himself - testified in front of the House Judiciary Commitee, Immigration Subcommittee Wedneday saying ICE’s Secure Communities program “turns the long-standing principle of ‘innocent until proven guilty’ on its head for certain groups of people.” (0:27)
North Carolina Sheriff Sam Page told lawmakers Wednesday at a House Judiciary Committee, Immigration Subcommittee hearing that Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Secure Communities program keeps Americans safe by identifying and deporting criminal illegal immigrants. (0:31)
Erik Lee, Associate Director of Arizona State University’s North American Center for Transborder Studies (NACTS), says he does not believe that Mexico is in a position to be able to work with the U.S. on immigration policy. (0:36)
Margaret Stock, adjunct professor of political science at the University of Alaska-Anchorage, says removing the citizenship clause within the Fourteenth Amendment would create increased complexity and bureaucracy, and would eventually require the establishment of a birth registry of every American citizen. (0:42)
14th Amendment, illegal immigration in Audio Margaret Stock, an adjunct professor of political science at the University of Alaska-Anchorage, says removing the citizenship clause within the Fourteenth Amendment would create increased complexity and bureaucracy, and would eventually require the establishment of a birth registry of every American citizen. (0:42)
14th Amendment, illegal immigration in Audio Margaret Stock, an adjunct professor of political science at the University of Alaska-Anchorage, explains how repealing the citizenship clause of the Fourteenth Amendment will require one of many governmental bureaucracies to determine how citizenship is defined. (0:21)
14th Amendment, illegal immigration in Audio Margaret Stock, an adjunct professor of political science at the University of Alaska-Anchorage, explains how an attempt to amend the Fourteenth Amendment would be a congressional and governmental disaster. (0:45)
14th Amendment, illegal immigration in Audio Margaret Stock, an adjunct professor of political science at the University of Alaska-Anchorage, says the only way that birthright citizenship could be changed is by constitutional amendment, not statute. (0:42)
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