Lincoln on the Anti-Immigrant Know-Nothings

Celebrating a Great American Tradition
On Thanksgiving we celebrate the harvest with our families and friends, a tradition that grew from an amalgamation of many harvest festivals, and particularly from the story of the arrival of the pilgrims at Plymouth Rock.  On that ‘first Thanksgiving,’ the immigrant pilgrims were welcomed to America, receiving the generous aid and hospitality of the Native Americans who lived there.  It was a moment of unity, and the inspiration for a treasured American holiday.

For a Town that Made a Mistake, Immigration Reform Might Speed Revival
Monday evening, the New Jersey Immigration Coalition and St. Peter’s Roman Catholic Church in Riverside, New Jersey, hosted a vigil in that town to support immigration reform and the town’s ongoing efforts to emerge from a period of xenophobia that peaked in the passage of an anti-immigrant ordinance in July 2006.  Passage of the ordinance led to a chain of events that has had devastating economic consequences for the town.   In July 2006

VIDEO: How We Will Make Real Immigration Reform a Reality!
Cross-Posted from Reform Immigration for America: On Wednesday night, 

The Census, Re-apportionment, and the Immigration Debate
    One undercurrent to the year-to-year political shenanigans that play out in Congress around the immigration issue is the demographic change that is occurring in the country, officially measured every 10 years by the decennial census.  There is a census coming up, in just over four months, and our friends over at America’s Voice have just published a

Update: President’s Senior Advisor Says Immigration Reform Advancing
On November 13, we wrote about the speech DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano delivered earlier that day at the Center for American Progress, where she laid out the Administration’s position on comprehensive immigration reform.  In that speech, Secretary Napolitano reviewed the accomplishment of DHS in addressing the concerns of some of the Members of Congress who, in 2007, opposed immigration reform because they felt the government could not sufficiently control the border or enforce the laws in the interior.  Many of those concern