Just because Frances Semler stepped aside and the Minutemen aren't causing any local ruckus doesn't mean all is silent on the immigration front. This week, in dozens of cities around the country, activists are calling attention to a broken system that divides families and punishes willing workers. This morning, local advocates gathered across the street from the Executive Office of Immigration Review -- where up to 50 deportation hearings are heard each day -- for a vigil denouncing "dehumanizin
Kris KobachLast year, officials from the Missouri State Highway Patrol received training from Immigration and Customs Enforcement that gave them the authority to conduct immigration investigations and detain undocumented migrants. Where do local cops get off executing immigration law? Well, in 1996 Congress passed a law with a provision called 287(g) that opened the door for county and state officials to take a class, sign an agreement and essentially become a local arm of ICE.
That progra
Our Sincerest Condolences on the Occasion of Your Unemployment: Kansas City-based Hallmark Sentiment Prefabrication Industries, Inc. is laying off eight percent of its tearful, sensitive workforce globally. They're going to fire around 250 workers from their Kansas City headquarters alone. Hallmark is probably the only privately held company in the world that once made a profit by manufacturing products regularly hand-made by kindergartners from folded-up pieces of paper and crayons. At least
