Anti-Latino hate crimes in California spiked up by almost 50% last year, the state’s attorney general’s office reported on Aug. 11. The increase, from 81 such crimes in 2009 to 119 in 2010, followed a decade of declines.
Anti-Latino hate crimes in California spiked up by almost 50% last year, the state’s attorney general’s office reported on Aug. 11. The increase, from 81 such crimes in 2009 to 119 in 2010, followed a decade of declines.
U.S. Sen. John McCain, Republican of Arizona, set off a wildfire of his own when he appeared to blame undocumented immigrants for starting about a half-dozen range fires raging in southern Arizona in June, including the massive Wallow fire that has scorched more than 800 square miles.
Border vigilantes charged in the home-invasion murders of a Latino man and his 9-year-old daughter are sentenced to death
The murder of a Latino immigrant in an aging Pennsylvania coal town was a tragedy. But was the town in some way responsible?
This report profiles a dozen leading members of State Legislators for Legal Immigration (SLLI), an organization that specializes in mounting legislative attacks on immigrants in states around the country. SLLI is now working to end the 14th Amendment's promise of birthright citizenship.
Former National Socialist Movement member J.T. Ready heads group that detains and turns over undocumented immigrants to the U.S. Border Patrol.
A state-by-state tally of the 319 groups that the SPLC lists as nativist extremist groups.
Acts of violence against Latinos pile up amid anti-immigrant climate.
Growth in the hard core of the nativist movement is slowing as the battle over immigration moves into the nation’s courts
This report examines the impact of harsh anti-immigrant laws enacted in communities across the country. These laws, which have been promoted and defended by former law professor and newly elected Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, have burdened taxpayers with millions in legal expenses, inflamed racial tensions and devastated businesses.