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.
During the heated debate leading up to the 1994 vote on California’s Proposition 187, a punishing anti-immigrant ordinance that would have denied social services to undocumented immigrants had it not been rejected by the courts, an embarrassing truth about the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) was revealed.
